AN SC376 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Early Christianity, Industrial Revolution, Horse Meat

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Animal Science
• Course: AN SC376
• Professor: Graham Plastow

Document Summary

Around the industrial revolution people started to intensify agriculture. From early christianity to modern age (17th century) Age of cruelty not just animals but people too. Western christian perspective is that animals are property. In the greek supreme court they condemned a boy to death because he blinded a bird and though he could now be cruel to mankind. Cat burning in the 16th century in paris. Moved away from animals because machines did it better. Therefore good and bad action happened towards animals. Looked at the morals between people and animals. Changed the way we thought about people of colour and slavery. Asked if animals could suffer at our hands then we should do something. If (cid:449)e did(cid:374)"t see a(cid:374)i(cid:373)als as ofte(cid:374) the(cid:374) our (cid:448)ie(cid:449) (cid:272)ha(cid:374)ged o(cid:374) the(cid:373) Sho(cid:272)ked people as they did(cid:374)"t k(cid:374)o(cid:449) ho(cid:449) a(cid:374)i(cid:373)als (cid:449)ere treated. Ruth said intensive farming cannot be stopped outright because it is essential for us to continue living.