{"id":8935,"date":"2020-06-17T09:30:10","date_gmt":"2020-06-17T13:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qa.vet.purdue.edu\/news\/?p=8935"},"modified":"2026-05-13T13:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T17:58:09","slug":"paradox-of-addressing-animal-welfare-while-dehumanizing-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/paradox-of-addressing-animal-welfare-while-dehumanizing-people.php","title":{"rendered":"Paradox of addressing animal welfare while dehumanizing people"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At a point in time where a global pandemic is threatening human health and an extraordinary public awakening about systemic racism is fueling societal unrest in the U.S. and across the world, it feels a little tone deaf to be discussing animal welfare. Nonetheless, fueled in part by public discussions of the food chain breaking as COVID-19 infections caused temporary U.S. packing plant closures and necessitated mass euthanasia of farm animals in some instances, animal welfare remains a high priority for many people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a point in time where a global pandemic is threatening human health and an extraordinary public awakening about systemic racism is fueling societal unrest in the U.S. and across the world, it feels a little tone deaf to be discussing animal welfare. Nonetheless, fueled in part by public discussions of the food chain breaking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[818,17,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animal-welfare-science","category-in-the-news","category-research"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8935"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33926,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8935\/revisions\/33926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}