Additional Things to think About
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March 7th, 2016
Animal Instincts While this far in the book all three of my zine members hate this book, I still love it. This section of the book was super interesting as it had to do with mushrooms and bringing awareness to animal abuse. A weird combination, right? So is the rest of this book. This first part goes into hunters and whether we could go back as a society to killing the animals we need to survive. The answer is no. There are tons of humans, and a much smaller amount of animals. So, since we can't go back to hunting, people who eat meat nowadays barely even have a thought of how the food got onto their plate. What if some of these people wanted to start hunting for their own food? You could easily acquire a gun, while getting a hunting permit is a bit more involved. With needing to take a 14 hour class with multiple tests. Then the end of the last chapter was mostly revolving around the question, do animals feel pain? Long story short, some people believe that they don’t because they don’t have a soul. the counter argument is that language is what can make pain more bearable. “The question is not can they reason? Can they talk? But can they suffer?” Jeremy Bentham. So this pretty much sums up the last part of this chapter, and is probably one of the easiest sections in the book to get interested in. This book did connect to our zine, but only in one part. The part with healthy eating habits. Going back to the earlier sections it speaks about what goes into the food you eat and what the conditions of the animals are before you eat it. “I don’t like this book so I didn’t care about it that much.” Says sierra, a short, sophomore here at saline high. While peter says “Yeah I didn’t like the book either.” following with sydney saying “It was a lot to read with all the information, it just wasn't interesting.” the only one from the group who liked the book was Olivia. she says “there was a lot of stuff to read, but it was interesting and kinda brought awareness to animal abuse a bit.” So we’ll call it a ¾ win for this book. The omnivore's Dilemma is designed mainly for someone who is interested in knowing about the technical side of food, along with the interest in wanting to know about how food is mass produced and treated before sale. If you have no interest in any of this, you’re not going to like this book, at all. You’ll drop it before you finish the first chapter. |