{"id":29708,"date":"2026-05-09T15:32:03","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T19:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=29708"},"modified":"2026-05-13T20:26:34","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T00:26:34","slug":"what-do-we-mean-when-we-say-we-love-animals-can-you-love-someone-and-eat-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2026\/05\/09\/what-do-we-mean-when-we-say-we-love-animals-can-you-love-someone-and-eat-them\/","title":{"rendered":"What do we mean when we say we &#8216;love&#8217; animals? Can you love someone and eat them?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/AW050926-1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"314\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/AW050926-1.jpeg\" alt=\"What do we mean when we say we 'love' animals? Can you love someone and eat them?\" class=\"wp-image-29705\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/AW050926-1.jpeg 314w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/AW050926-1-294x300.jpeg 294w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 314px) 100vw, 314px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">What do we mean when we say we &#8216;love&#8217; animals? Can you love someone and eat them?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The human-animal relationship has been complicated for millennia. We domesticate some, we eat others, some cultures have built spiritual relationships with animals that nourish them, some are more thoughtless, and some have forsworn eating them at all. Here&#8217;s an interesting book about that history: <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/bcl-humans-animals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">bit.ly\/bcl-humans-animals<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The human-animal relationship has been complicated for millennia. We domesticate some, we eat others, some cultures have built spiritual relationships with animals that nourish them, some are more thoughtless, and some have forsworn eating them at all. Here&#8217;s an interesting book about that history: bit.ly\/bcl-humans-animals<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-questions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29708"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29721,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29708\/revisions\/29721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}