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Can We Handle The Truth Of What Covid-19 Is Telling Us?, James A. Marcum
Can We Handle The Truth Of What Covid-19 Is Telling Us?, James A. Marcum
Animal Sentience
Wiebers & Feigin (W&F) are right that what COVID-19 is telling us is that to prevent future zoonotic pandemics we need to put an end to our exploitation of wild and farmed animals. To implement W&F’s recommendations we need to overcome at least three obstacles: (1) the way we have responded historically to zoonoses, (2) our insatiable appetite for meat (wild or farmed) and (3) our speciesist attitude toward nonhuman animals.