If you asked anyone in America if they have ever eaten dog meat, they would probably say no and maybe call the police. However, if you went to certain parts of the world and asked the same thing they would say, yes, of course. To many Americans this might seem absurd and crazy just because it is just simply not what they are used to. This brings up the question, who is right? Appiah, in his Moral Disagreement essay, provides a valid answer to this question, “The point is not that we couldn’t argue our way to one position or the other on this question; it’s only to say that when we disagree, it won’t always be because one of us just doesn’t understand the value that’s at stake” (p. 666).
Are Pit Bulls Really too Dangerous? “BSL is nothing more than breed profiling and as of yet it has not worked to curb the amount of serious dog attacks it was put in place to stop” (www.pitbulllovers.com, 2007). Breed Specific Legislation, or BSL are a set of laws that restricts breeds of dog or completely bans the breed from an area. BSL has banned the American Pit Bull Terrier from multiple states in America, and even some European countries. In this essay I will prove the unnecessity of BSL.
In the article “This must never happen again” by Cathy Martin, Coldstream in The Age, published on June 9th 2011, she is telling the reader that only humans are only dominant enough to declare themselves owner of all other animals, which leads them with a huge role of responsibility. Cathy Martin would rather see meat prices go up instead of seeing the animals get hurt and harmed like they did shown on Four Corners. I would have to agree with this because it is wrong in so many ways with was done to the cattle. I would also feel sympathy for the 1200 peoples’ lives and jobs depend on the live export trade but maybe the ones that are to lose their jobs could help form a new authority to oversee the strict new standards relating to the future slaughter of Australian animals. The last argument supported in this issue is the use of the restraining boxes; a restraining box is used to restrain animals and to “stun” them quickly and accurately before slaughter- and in which a ‘stun gun’ is to render the animal unconscious.
False advertising is also another unpleasant practice that fast food companies use to lure in costumers. Some of these practices include no warning labels on advertisements like there are on dangerous things like tobacco and confusing labels on food served that lead customers into eating more calories than intended. David Zinczenko advocates that it is some of the fast food companies fault for the decline in America’s general health. At the end, David chooses not to complain about the legalities, but instead encourages us to let the justice system do its work. In the article David Zinczenko discusses “Shouldn't we know better than to eat two meals a day in fast-food restaurants” we the people of America should know by now that it is
Carter argues to support or enhance the key issues that eating meat is right based on superiority, self-consciousness, reasoning, moral capability, rights, duties, and sentience. Carter shows that the statement that animals have an interest in their own lives and that we should not treat them like things is a cornerstone in many vegetarian theories. But then he questions this argument in that even the smallest insect has an interest in its own life, but you do not see people actively opposing the killing of all living creatures. He also questions the statement that animals can even make this assertion and are not just living out of basic instinct. And, although a creature may try to stay alive, is it doing so out of the fact it doesn't want to die, or the basic instinct that it has to stay alive.
And while the parentheses in “Against Meat” see Foer coming to terms with his decision to forego meat, Wallace’s footnotes show a man unable to commit himself. He “like[s] to eat certain kinds of animals and want[s] to be able to keep doing it,” despite the fact that he cannot defend it (354). While he pleads with readers to consider the lobster, he does not insist that we spare the lobster. But even if some of us disagree with Foer’s justification for not eating meat, it is hard to refute Wallace’s exhortation to give vegetarianism—and eating animals—serious thought. Wallace points out that “it takes a lot of intellectual gymnastics and behaviorist hairsplitting” not to see that a lobster suffers before it finally dies, just as it takes conscious ignorance on our part to skim over his
121) I am one of those Americans who eat meat, and to give it up on Thanksgiving for someone else’s selfishness is not going to happen. They might call me selfish but if I don’t eat that meat, someone else will. The chain never really breaks. And whether you like it or not, it’s the sad
They are making comments such as, "The problem of obesity is so staggering, so out of control, that we have to do something." There is something this person can do to fix this problem of obesity. This person can stop blaming the restaurants, stop eating at the restaurants, start making healthy decisions, and exercise. If not, then this person can keep making the decision of eating there and getting fat, but not sue the restaurant because this is a decision he has made. Fast food restaurants dont force the clients to buy and eat there.
Heather tries to make Robert jealous by saying another guy loves her but he doesn't show any interest. “Then why should I fight him, Robert had asked...Robert thought it was idiotic and said so”. Him not wanting to fight with Tom Bryan which shows another sign of him not being a fighter or fit for war. Page 14: Robert looked to one side from under the peak of his cap, hoping that no one had seen him flinch from the steam or stepping back from the fire. Guilty about Rowena's death Robert is seen with a horse and dog in the prologue, after the 'war', and when we come across Taffler we see that he is accompanied with a horse and dog.
It has lent us the indifference of wild creatures.” (274) Paul abhors the fact that he and his fellow comrades have to switch of their compassion ,and behave like animals in order to cope with the horrors of the war and because they were not passionate at all in the war and are only motivated by food and friends they only focus on the negatives of the war and fail to search for a silver lining. Patriotism should not mean that one should get blinded by the love one has for his/her country and accept everything it does. After coming across captured Russian prisoners Paul in particular starts to question the war and its cause as he notices the similarities between himself and the prisoners. He came to realize that these people who struggled and were in pain just like him have become his enemies just because of a decision made by men with power who have never seen the front. “Their life is obscure and guiltless...A word of command has made this silent figures our enemies; a word of command might transform them into our friends...with their childlike faces and apostle beards...And yet we would shoot at them again and they at us if