As a reader that is heart wrenching because I think of beagles as cute little animals and then the thought of them burning in an oven is just horrific but that is Hamilton’s intent. For one she is warning you of what you are about to read but as well as describing how her experience has made it easier as a chef to kill these animals for food. I believe that experience helped her pursue a career as a chef. Hamilton also considers her audience as any reader to give not only a value of what she went through but also the life and death of a chicken. “Killing Dinner” caught my attention by the articles first sentence: “It’s quite something to go barehanded up through a chicken’s ass and dislodge its warm guts,” because it is so blunt therefore I knew the article would be interesting.
Food Inc, a documentary by Robert Kenner, is bursting with both shocking and disturbing facts. It was interesting to learn that most of our food comes from the same handful of companies who are so blinded by the need for profit that they comprise on their quality. It was even more disturbing to learn that though we may think we have a great variety of choice that it is just an illusion and in actuality, most of the products we find in the supermarket are some sort of corn. But the most shocking and disturbing truth was the condition and practices in chicken farming. The documentary discloses that, “ birds are now raised and slaughtered in half the time they were 50 years ago, but now they're twice as big.” But this comes at a great cost.
In a powerful and original voice, the warns that our livestock industry has repeated the mistakes such as high doses of pesticides, growth hormone, and the ground-up remains of other animals that led to Mad Cow Disease in England. In the first chapter of the book, the author Howard Lyman realized that he was meat-eater; he used to enjoy the steaks as much as everybody in the world. When he found out what goes into meat as we eat daily, he said that everybody would probably be a vegetarian like him. He told us that the plain truth of dangerous when we eat meat. Everybody include myself will say that it is stupid spoken in the twenty first century; in our thought, meat has been served as most primary food in our daily meal.
We should all be “Hungry for Change.” American society today is generally disgustingly unhealthy. The movie Hungry for Change displays the causes of America’s unhealthy population and why so many people are sick and dying due to their invalid diets. The movie acknowledges the reasons for this appalling occurrence and how we can alter our diets to become closer to what our bodies are designed to consume. The movie is inspiring and extremely informative, it reveals the dangers we face because of the foods we eat and how we put our lives at risk by what we eat alone. The diets of today’s Americans exceed the amount of calories humans should consume, yet greatly lack in nutrition.
Mad Cowboy This book was enlightening to say the least for me being a devout meat eater for the past Forty-eight years I was completely caught off guard as to how server the problem really is today. The way we treat other creatures is unbelievable and we call ourselves civilized, it’s almost as bad as how we treated the African people. We took them from their homeland and forced them to our hard labor for us all the while treating like they were our property rather than human beings. There are a lot of similarities in how we treat our cattle and the way we treated the black race. Once I started to read this book it gave me a new perspective on what I eat but not just that it also game me a new outlook on animals in general and how we treat
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.
Insofar as I can make-out, people are uncomfortable to know how animals die and to assume such a responsibility. When I've showed people videos of --seemingly credible-- factory farm footage they either react in two different ways: (1) either they quiver-away or plea me to turn it off (2) or they uncomfortably scoff at how ridiculously cynical it all is. Albeit, appalled, this doesn't generally discourage people to stop eating meat altogether. They simply look past it when they go-off and buy animal-based products. The fact of the matter is that the animal products we buy are the source of considerable pain and cruelty.
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
He found a few people who were still loyal to him but majority of the suitors were very arrogant. After all of this, he finally revealed himself as Odysseus and kills them all. This is defiantly an example of Odysseus’s intelligence being a good thing because these men took advantage of his house and wife. They were disrespectful and eating up all the food from his house. The fact Odysseus first disguised himself as a beggar so he can see who was loyal to him and who wasn’t was really clever, because this gave him an idea of who to kill and who not to
By continuing to eat meat the issues of factory farming can not be fixed. There is a demand in the United States for meat, which allows the large scale factory farming. Converting to vegetarianism has many benefits and can help reduce the problems that are risings out of factory farming. Not eating meat will decrease the demand for meat, which in turn will save animals from a life of abuse. Vegetarianism is one of the healthiest diets, so it will boost your over all health.