Researchers at the University of Exeter look at how attitudes around which animals are food and which are companions change from childhood to adulthood.
According to a new study, children believe humans and farm animals should be treated in the same ways, but they start to lose these beliefs as they become teenagers. The study notes that speciesism is learned in adolescence.
Researchers from Exeter and Oxford universities polled a group of British youngsters aged nine to eleven, young adults aged 18 to 21, and elderly men and women on their sentiments about various animals
Story at a glance Researchers surveyed 459 individuals across three distinct age groups to measure how people determined an animal’s worth and how they believe certain species should be treated.&nb…