Public concern for animal welfare and its correlation with ethical ideologies after coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in China

Abstract The outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) represents a major public health challenge and serious threat to sustainable social development. A consideration animal welfare is clearly justified, given the potential contribution animals spread disease. present study, therefore, sought investigate concern Chinese people have for (PCAW) how their ‘ethical ideology’ (idealism relativism) determines PCAW after COVID-19, through comparison with same carried out in China 2015. Our results demonstrated significant improvement COVID-19. adverse impact COVID-19 may resulted lowered idealism score this decreased served neutralise correlations between PCAW, compared 2015 results. global pandemic did not increase people's relativism correlation was found PCAW. Gender, age, educational level, perception zoo aquarium visiting were all shown be predictor variables This study one first can therefore provide knowledge that will potentially