Recently I’ve been reading “Eating animals” by Jonathan Foer. He has been talking about how the companies that have these animal plantations don’t care about how they are feelings. Many of these animals are abused and left to die. These corporations believe that these animals a piece of property and that they don’t have feelings. They hide the truth from their customers and don’t let them see what really goes on. People eat the burgers not realizing that the burger that they are eating was a cow or chicken that had feelings. There are many people in different countries that eat different animals. To them is a habit and it’s their culture but to us it’s a culture shock. We have man’s best friend with us every day and we care for them as if there were our own children. We have a connection with our animals and can’t bare the sight of our companion getting hurt and left to die. Although to these other countries its more meat that they have but to them it’s like having a burger and Mc Donald’s: it all tastes the same.
I got an understanding on the main concept which i believe was animal emotions. However I think you want to expand your definition of "culture shock" because it was a bit confusing because of minor grammar errors. i did like the example about man's best friends and how we connect so much with these animals but not farm yard animals. I think it has to do social constructivism. It is ethical in our society or culture as you may put it to eat farmyard animals without thinking about their feelings. I don’t think people see animal’s feelings because the slaughtering happens behind closed doors as you mentioned. Great ideas just a little revision and expansion on the definition will bring this post to perfection.
ReplyDeleteHello Amber! This is Evgeniya from Prof. JRC’s ENG 101 class. I have read all the posts in your blog and I have a couple of comments.
ReplyDeleteFirst of all, I’d like to mention what I have learned from your blog. The post “Bliss Point and Homeostasis” was quite informative and made me go online and find the article that you were writing about (it turned out to be a book). Your description of the main concept was done very well and was easy to understand.
I really liked your last post “It all tastes the same and has no feelings”. Again, it was easy to understand. The observation about what is the habit for people from some countries is a culture shock for others makes a good point. Although I felt like you could continue the thought about the human culture in common and the culture of meat eating in general.
My suggestion would be to try to be more accurate when you use ideas from your sources. For example, in your first post “Throughput”, you weren’t precise when describing the main concept, and therefore you might delude your reader. My advice is to reconfirm with the book.
I would also suggest to experiment with the verbs in the signal phrases. Instead of using one verb (he talks), you can try to vary the language with other verbs like observes, insists, claims, points out…
Thank you for allowing me to read your work.