Farm animals and humans should be treated the same, children say

Moral hierarchy giving different value to different animals is learned during adolescence, survey suggestsChildren think farm animals deserve to be treated as well as human beings but lose this belief in adolescence, a groundbreaking study has found.Researchers from the universities of Exeter and Oxford asked a group of British children aged nine to 11, young adults aged 18 to 21 and older men and women about their attitudes to different sorts of animals. Continue reading...