Animal welfare and food ethics with Rachel Ankeny

In the CAVE: An ethics podcast, is back with Season 3 of the show. Join your hosts, Professor Paul Formosa and Distinguished Professor Wendy Rogers, along with guest host Associate Professor Mark Alfano, from the Macquarie University Research Centre for Agency, Values and Ethics (or CAVE) as they explore a range of philosophical topics focused on the question of how we can live well as moral agents in an ethically complex world.  Australians have one of the highest per capita meat consumption rates in the world. Many Australians have a rosy view of animal husbandry in Australia, visualising family farmers caring for happy animals out in green paddocks. They don’t like to think about factory farming, or how the animals they eat are killed – a phenomenon known as the “meat paradox”. However, eating meat raises various ethical questions, from animal welfare to environmental impact. Join host Distinguished Professor Wendy Rogers and guest Professor Rachel Ankeny as they discuss misconceptions, paradoxes and other issues associated with eating meat.  In the podcast we discuss Rachel’s work with Australian consumers about their attitudes towards the welfare of animals that serve as meat. You can read Rachel’s paper here: Buddle, E. A., Bray, H. J., & Ankeny, R. A. (2023). Values of Australian Meat Consumers Related to Sheep and Beef Cattle Welfare: What Makes a Good Life and a Good Death? Food Ethics, 8(1), 5. You may also be interested in Rachel’s work on attitudes to animal cruelty: Morton, R., Hebart, M.L., Ankeny, R.A., Whittaker, A.L. (2022) Portraying Animal Cruelty: A Thematic Analysis of Australian News Media Reports on Penalties for Animal Cruelty. Animals, 12, 2918. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani12212918 Produced by Piccolo Podcasts   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.