Description

To some people, eating meat is immoral. It’s a subjective opinion. However, does eating meat make you immoral objectively?

Should hippies be allowed to work in a microbiology laboratory? Are their beards and long hair a contamination risk? How can chickens be used in this study?

In this episode, Lu gives Tirth an opportunity to redeem himself with another science quiz, and the two discuss how eating meat actually makes you immoral, according to science, and how to trick hippies into shaving their beards.

Timestamps:

• 0:00 Intro
• 0:45 Tirth takes another science trivia quiz
• 13:39 Meat eating study
• 22:52 Beard microbiology study
• 32:11 What did you learn today, outro

Article links:

• Loughnan et al., 2010. The role of meat consumption in the denial of moral status and mind to meat animals. Appetite. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0195666310003648?via%3Dihub

• Barbeito et al., 1967. Microbiological laboratory hazard of bearded men. Applied Microbiology. https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/am.15.4.899-906.1967

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