Both of these authors have a wide-range of experience in the food industry before publishing their books, and in fact both are activists for the production of sustainable food. Another source of creditability is when they interview a chicken farmer who is contracted by Tyson. The farmer allowed the film crew inside to give the viewers a rare look into the life of a chicken raised in these chicken houses for Tyson. To say the least the conditions of the chicken house were deplorable. There was very little ventilation, almost no windows to let light in, only two big fans to ventilate the house, and the chickens could barely move due to the lack of available space because so many where crammed in there.
Book Report My book ‘Endangered’ by Eliot Schrefer, was about a young girl named Sophie who had to fight to stay alive, taking care of not just herself, but a baby bonobo she named Otto. My book interested me in many ways. One way it interested me was because it showed the bond humans can have with an animal, so therefor we should stop people from killing animals. My quote I used is “The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom”. I chose this quote because it tells us that killing animals happens faster than someone gathering knowledge.
But even with all the power she holds she still questions her motives and that is very ironic. The biggest moment is the story were we see her question her power is when she saw the downed boar up close and in flesh “This wild thing, this perfect creature” she thinks “She feels sorrow in the back of her throat, the sorrow of existence”(304). Through this moment of clarity we see this woman that was chasing down some of those pigs with Frazier, the one killing off all these rats, feral pigs change and start having more compassion for these animals. She really doesn’t want to be killing these animals
Although Sinclair’s investigation tells a story of the toll the meatpacking industry took on families nearly a hundred years ago, he still offers insight into the deceiving side of America’s food corruptions. Both writers brilliantly offer realization and awareness in their books that will benefit anyone who reads them to make better decisions daily. The description of the factory farming slaughterhouses in both books is enough to send chills down almost anyone’s spine; The Jungle opens with the cruel tactics, yet Fast Food Nation did not mention the slaughterhouses until midway. As Jurgis and his family tour the packinghouse where he will be working as a shoveler,(shoveling blood and guts) they first see what seems to be millions of cows. There are rail yards that carry the cattle to the slaughterhouse where the mechanics of the process are awe-inspiring.
He starts out wanting to help and contribute to the group, and by the end of the book, he slowly changes for the worse. He transitions into a demigod. His way of behaving is neither disruptive nor violent at the beginning of the book, but he does show the desire to hunt and kill a pig. The first time Jack is presented with killing a pig he couldn’t, “because of the enormity of the knife and descending and cutting into living flesh; because of the unbearable blood.” (P. 27) Later on, he says, “We’ll get food, hunt, catch things...until they fetch us.” (P. 30) This shows that he cares, and wants to help and contribute to the group.
Just as the birds struggled against a hostile environment, Carson combated angry chemical industrialists and governmental agencies whose philosophies and purposes collided with her own. In addition, Carson’s personal tribulations compounded her difficulties from her mother’s illnesses, her fostering needs, and her battle against cancer. Nevertheless, her dedication to defend the birds she loved yielded a solidly researched work which many chemical companies vehemently opposed. Since they could not find fault with
Chloe Mott Block 2A November 15, 2011 Ignorance is Lethal Rachel Carson, a biologist, wrote a book entitled Silent Spring that helped change American’s attitudes about their environment. In the Silent Spring passage Carson describes how farmers rid themselves of vexing or inconvenient creatures, a majority of them being birds. The farmers kill the birds by spraying a poison called parathion, which is capable of “protecting” the area in which it is administered for extended amounts of time. In the passage, Carson provides all three types of rational appeals-ethical, logical and emotional- in an effort to raise awareness and encourage action about the issue of using poisons that have the potential to kill animals. She expresses these appeals by using various rhetorical strategies such as diction and syntax.
News anchor; Harry Reasoner described it as a test that “used human beings as laboratory animals in a long and inefficient study of how long it takes syphilis to kill someone.” Even as the Public Health Service was exposed, they remained impenitent and said that the black men volunteered themselves to be used as an experiment. The Government later ended the experiment. The Public Health Service still justified its actions by saying that the experiment was for the “greater good of science”. At the end of the experiment, 28 men died directly of syphilis, 100 died as a result of related complications, 40
The next step he removed the center triangle which is called the “wish bone” a dangerous task. Chef Pepin pulled the skin back at the breast bone; and cuts a triangle like incision into the carcass which makes it so he can easily removes the wishbone with his finger. He stated normally it’s already broken away due to the pressing of the chicken, but be careful because it’s very sharp and you could puncture your finger. Based on Chef Pepin method for deboning
They shared their kill, because Gale had a large family to fend for as well. In turn, Gale taught Katniss how to set snares and traps. She used these skills to provide fresh meat and nutritious plants for her mother and sister, and sold a portion to have money for other supplies. Without Katniss, the family would starve to death, because her mother was too depressed, from her husband’s death, to work and her sister was too young and delicate to participate in gathering food. 24 tributes are thrown into an arena and they are forced to kill or be killed.