• Halloween Episode: Flesh Eating, Speciesism, and Getting Away with Murder

  • Oct 15 2024
  • Length: 28 mins
  • Podcast

Halloween Episode: Flesh Eating, Speciesism, and Getting Away with Murder

  • Summary

  • Do you love Halloween? Do you like to dig deep into philosophical discussions of life and death? This episode might just be for you. Today’s show is a Halloween special with something a little different. In the first half, Hope explores the theme of cannibalism in zombie, vampire, and other fantasy and horror movies and shows how these stories actually underscore our speciesist tendencies. Then, in the second half of the show, Hope and her husband Cogen, have a conversation about why people love horror movies and ask the question, could it be that our society likes to eat meat because it’s a socially sanctioned murder? Or can horror movies help us to empathize with farmed animals that are experiencing the same horrors as the victims in the movies?

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