00:00If you're born in a Muslim country you would not eat a pig but over in the UK people eat
00:05bacon for
00:05breakfast and they don't think about it but in some parts of Asia they eat dogs and we think
00:10that's abhorrent but we'll eat a cow and a cow is sacred in India. It's so arbitrary because all of
00:16those animals there's no difference to them, no difference that matters. They all are thinking
00:20feeling individuals and so these are learned behaviors that as you say really need to be unlearned.
00:25You have put it so rightly. Had this been an innate human instinct then it would have been
00:35common, universal and similar across peoples, across continents and across religions. But you're so
00:44right. We don't want to kill dogs for example but very happily we slaughter pigs.
00:53Whereas purely in terms of intellect we know pigs are more capable than dogs. The cow example,
01:02yes, rightly put. One place she's worshipped, she's a mother. Other cultures she's not a mother but a burger.
01:13She's a burger. So obviously the species hasn't changed, the DNA hasn't changed. How is it that one
01:22people favor one animal in some way and the others favor some other animal? Which simply means it is
01:31social conditioning.
