Finish the Quotes
Complicating matters for America’s ________ pork industry, an average packing plant out “1,000 units per hour” (pg 237)
$28 billion
Awareness
The state or ability to perceive, to feel, or to be conscious of events, objects, or sensory patterns
Most basic definition of consciousness
You experience feelings and the environment around you
Who had the theory of “mere pain” in animals? (Unknowable Territory)
Stephen Budiansky
“The fur industry believes that the decision to wear fur is a matter of _______” (pg 192)
Individual choice
Self Awareness
One’s ability to perceive and understand the things that make them who they are as an individual
What the movie The Cove about?
The slaughtering of dolphins
Who said “that some animals have a sense of their own future” (Unknowable Territory)
David S. Oderberg
“Do animals think? Are they really conscious? ________” (pg 194)
Do they really suffer?
Self Conscious
Having knowledge of one's own existence, especially the knowledge of oneself as a conscious being
What is one way that wild animals are known to heal their injuries?
1. Nurse their wounds
2. Make noises to show their distress
3. Become reclusive
Who first discovered bat sonar? (Want Nut)
Donald R. Griffin
“A literal “_______” is the ultimate container of this concept” (pg 222)
God
Sentience
The capacity to experience feelings and sensations
What is the process of nociception?
1. Nerves in the skin sense something harmful and communicate that information to the spinal chord
2. Motor neurons activate movement that make us rapidly move away from the threat
Who wrote the 1997 book Animals and Their Moral Standing (The Masquerade)
Stephen R.L. Clark
“Hence Professor Kennedy’s view can never be _____” (pg 202)
Disproved
Qualia
Individual instances of subjective, conscious experience.
(What we see, what we smell)
What animal is one of the most intelligent invertebrates?
Octopus
Which researcher studied Nim Chimpsky? (The Masquerade)
Herbert Terrace