Week 3: Radical Empathy

Roughly how many farmed land animals are slaughtered for food each year?

• 7.5 billion

• 75 billion

• 750 billion

• 7.5 trillion

Which of the following statements is incorrect?

• 1. Antispeciesism requires that we consider interests of equal strength to an equal extent, regardless of the species membership of those involved.

• 1. The capacity for sentience means the ability to receive and react to stimuli consciously.

• 1. Surveys and studies of social movements suggest that focusing on institutional tactics may be more efficient than asking for individual consumer change.

• 1. Estimates suggest that philanthropic funding for farmed animal advocacy is comparable to that supporting education or development initiatives.

Which of the following statements correctly describes how fishes are different from other species of farmed animals?

• 1. Fishes are usually farmed in low-density farms.

• 1. Fishes are usually not protected by regulations requiring that they be killed humanely.

• 1. There are fewer farmed fishes around the world than farmed chickens.

• 1. Fishes are usually slaughtered by electrical stunning.

Who said the following: “The question is not, Can they reason?, nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?”

• David Hume

• Peter Singer

• Jeremy Bentham

• John Rawls

Which of the following is not a criterion for a moral catastrophe?

• 1. It has to be highly neglected by society broadly.

• 1. It has to affect a large number of individuals, rather than a single wrongdoing.

• 1. It has to be a serious wrongdoing similar to the level of, for example, slavery.

• 1. Broad swathes of society are responsible through action or inaction.

Which of the following shows the correct order (decreasing) of the number of farmed land animals in each region?

• 1. South America > East Asia > North America > South Asia > Europe

• 1. East Asia > South Asia > South America > North America > Europe

• 1. South America > East Asia > South Asia > North America > Europe

• 1. East Asia > South America > Europe > North America > South Asia