Non-Human Animal Trauma During the Pandemic
Non-Human Animal Trauma During the Pandemic
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10.1007/s42438-020-00143-2
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2020-06-16
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O’Sullivan V
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O’Sullivan V
这篇文章是一种积极分子的姿态，旨在对抗 SARS-CoV-2 病毒背景下看不见的动物创伤，这种病毒可以追溯到一种“生鲜市场”，其中包括穿山甲、狼崽、野兔、蛇、貉、豪猪、猪、鸡和孔雀在内的活体动物，都是按订单屠宰的（Dalton 2020a）。多年来，动物福利组织孜孜不倦地努力提高社会对这些市场的残酷性及其对人类健康构成的威胁的认识（这就是我们的人类中心主义，动物权益保护组织也必须经常强调人类的关切）。他们的呼吁没有得到重视——动物的创伤基本上是看不见的。因此，当大流行出现时，一位受欢迎的新西兰心理学家在 Facebook 上发表了一篇被分享了数千次的帖子（并被制成报纸文章），建议“分享猫从货架上推东西、狗以类似人类的姿势在椅子上睡着的有趣视频”作为缓解与 Covid-19 相关焦虑的一种方式，这可能不会显得不协调（Latta 2020）。为什么当我们愿意的时候我们会利用动物的友善，却对它们的折磨视而不见？为什么我们看到绵羊在荒凉的操场上在旋转木马上玩耍的镜头如此快乐，但在封锁级别解除后却要排队吃它们？类似的市场，例如曼谷的乍都乍市场，在澳大利亚 60 分钟制作的一部纪录片暗示这是另一种人畜共患疾病的“定时炸弹”后，该市场被“突击搜查”，该市场已被吹捧为旅游景点（Harvey、Hannaford 和 Clancy 2020）。乍都乍市场 (Chatuchak Market) 在猫途鹰 (TripAdvisor) 的该市最佳旅游景点名单中排名第三，旅游作家宣传该市场及其斗暹罗鱼和斗鸡（Stephens nd）。虽然有关这次突袭的报道称“动物已被扣押，它们的安全得到了保证”，但很难追查到
This piece of writing is an activist gesture intended to counter the invisibility of animal trauma in the context of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which has been traced to a type of ‘wet market’where live animals, including pangolins, wolf pups, hare, snakes, racoon dogs, porcupines, pigs, chickens and peacocks, are slaughtered on order (Dalton 2020a). For years, animal welfare organisations have worked tirelessly to increase societal knowledge of the cruelty of these markets and the threats to human health that they pose (such is our anthropocentrism that animal advocacy organisations must also often foreground human concerns). Their calls have gone unheeded—animal trauma largely invisible. Hence, when a pandemic emerges, it may not register as incongruous when a popular New Zealand psychologist writes a Facebook post that is shared thousands of times (and made into a newspaper article) suggesting ‘sharing funny videos of cats pushing stuff off shelves, and dogs falling asleep in chairs in human-like poses’ as a way to alleviate Covid-19-related anxiety (Latta 2020). Why do we use the companionability of animals when we want to, yet turn a blind eye to their torment? Why do we find the footage of sheep playing on a carousel in a deserted playground so joyful, yet line up to eat them the very second a lockdown level is lifted? Similar markets, such as Chatuchak Market in Bangkok, which was ‘raided’after a documentary produced for 60 Minutes Australia suggested that it was a ‘ticking timebomb’for another zoonotic disease, have been touted as tourist attractions (Harvey, Hannaford, and Clancy 2020). Chatuchak Market ranks number three on TripAdvisor’s list of top tourist attractions in the city, and travel writers promote the market and its fighting Siamese fish and chickens (Stephens nd). Whilst reports concerning the raid say that ‘the animals were seized and their safety assured’, it is difficult to track down