Tonight's homework is to complete Assignment 28. See below for the reading and questions. Access the reading here - Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer. Find and read the chapter "Words/Meaning."
Assignment #28 - Eating Animals
1. On a separate page, define the following
terms in your own words.
CAFO
Factory farm
Free range
Organic
2. What is your reaction to what you saw/read
today?
3. As consumers, do you think that we have
the right to know how the animals we eat are being raised? Do you want to know?
4. Richard Lobb of the National Chicken
Council says in the film Food, Inc., “In a way, we’re not producing chickens,
we’re producing food.” What does this statement mean? Do you agree or disagree
with it?
5. How do you think farm animals should be
treated?
6. Suppose that we (as in all consumers) come
to a consensus that even food animals deserve to have a right to a certain
quality of life.
a. What might be some repercussions of this
position? What effects could it have?
b. Who should have the responsibility to
oversee the treatment of food animals? Companies? The government?
Individuals/consumers?
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