Friday, May 13, 2011
Respect
Animals are not just the food on our tables. They are lives; they have feelings just like human, so they deserve respect too. However, sometimes people just avoid thinking about it because they don’t want to be guilty when they feel the meat on their table are delicious. In the book Eating Animals, the auther Jonathan Safran Foer wrote a short coversation with his son, His son asked if his dog, George, will be lonely when they leave the house without Geoge, and he said “George doesn’t get lonely”(Foer, 46). Of course dogs feel lonely, and Jouathan knew it; he just refused to admit it. He lied to his son also himself. He didn’t want to upset his son, and he didn’t want to feel guilty, so he lied. When he noticed his dog has similar emothion with himself, he got scared. Like most people. If animals are not just animals; if they have feelings such as happiness, upset, anger, loneliness, does that mean we have to respect their feelings? If we have to, how should we treat them? Should we eat them? Therefore, people avoid thinking about it. People don’t want to feel guilty or give up eating them.
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Hello! 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.
ReplyDeleteI really like the way you make connections. You descriptions are detailed and it makes it easier for the reader to follow your thought. For example, in the post “Video about fast food”, your description of the video helped me envision the situation of that family.
It is important that you develop the idea step by step from theses statement to the conclusion. In the post “Food” you gradually lead the reader to understanding your argument. I liked that introduction about “big fish eats small fish…” when you write about the balance of the world. And in another post “Respect”, I like your usage of rhetorical questions in the conclusion. Those questions make a connection to the title of the post.
I also find it very important that you express your opinion on the subject, as well as that you consult a dictionary.
I would suggest you to be more careful with your grammar. Some mistakes make it difficult to understand the writing. Also pay attention to the citations. In the post “Pleasure Response” you did not mention the author or the work that you cited. Although in other posts you did a great job with in-text citations, signal phrases and page numbers.
Another minor correction would be to the post “Significant idea connection”. You wrote that the cattle are supposed to eat grain. But they are supposed to eat grass. Grain is not their natural food. Grain is being fed to them on purpose – to make them bigger. And it is actually cheap. But to cut the costs even lower companies mix the grain with all kinds of stuff.
All in all I found your blog very interesting. You did a great job.
Thank you for allowing me to read your work.
Hi luan thanks for letting me read your blog. I really enjoyed your explanation of throughput and the way you tied it into worker's being replaceable and franchise uniformity. This was tied well in significant idea connection but you may want a less generic title. You hit the nail on the head with the concept of cutting cost no matter what and your example of a family being forced to eat at McDonald's day-in day-out is well timed and appropriate. However you may want to read your blogs aloud and double check them, some sentences were either awkward or incorrect -
ReplyDeleteI watched a video from YouTube in which a family drove a van and bought Fast Food in drive-through restaurant, and then they ate in the van.
I really found your post on the pleasure response it was a very specific but interesting post. Your personal take on the view on fast food from china is very intriguing and new to me and I'd like to hear more parallels from china.
Russell