Week 4: Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer by Daniel Clare https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/nnbov3rcbws3 Week 4 discussion en-us 2018-02-01 19:47:16 UTC 2025-09-27 07:41:48 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Lightdecrease.png Anayancy G. B2 https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/nnbov3rcbws3/wish/227473004 Chapter 7 “I Do” starts out with the lives of Bill and Nicolette Niman who are ranch farmers. Nicolette talks about what it’s like to be a vegetarian rancher and the reasons why is she is one. Nicolette believes that she has a special connection with animals, therefore chooses not to eat meat. However, she isn’t opposed to anybody who eats meats because she thinks that it is a natural part of life to eat other animals. Nicolette believes more in animal welfare than for animals to have rights. This means that if someone is going to eat animals that they should at least raise them without having to make them suffer like they do in industrialized farms. The chapter then shares Bruce Friedrich’s point of view who works for PETA. He agrees with mostly everything that Nicolette regarding the treatment of animals except for  being okay for other people to eat animals. He argues that eating animals and the way they are “raised” in factory farms are inefficient because the 225 million tons of soy crop that it takes to feed the animals would be enough to feed the people living in poverty in developing countries. Friedrich’s main counterargument against Nicolette is that raising animals to eat by treating them fairly and not with cruelty is like having slaves but not treating them as badly as other slaveowners would. Then the author includes Bill’s perspective and why he became a rancher and still is a meat eater. The author continues with narrative about a vegan who builds slaughterhouses. This person decided to help Frank Reese, a farmer to build slaughterhouses that goes with their beliefs of cruelty free. They decided that they can’t stop slaughterhouses from rising so they should create their own. Finally chapter 7 ends with Foer’s decision to become a committed vegetarian after struggling to decide if he should be one or not. He also supports the Niman Ranch brand. Chapter 8 begins with the story of Foer’s last childhood thanksgiving in which he talks about the holiday traditions that he had as a childhood and proposes the question on why we have turkey for Thanksgiving. He makes the point that the first Thanksgiving probably didn’t include turkey. Foer then includes information on the improvement of slaughterhouses based upon Temple Grandin’s research about the workers and conditions. He shares several experiences of the workers of slaughterhouses including ones who had treated the animals very badly. Foer continues and talks about how society has a major influence on what someone eats. Jonathon Safran Foer ends the book by going back to the topic about his Thanksgiving traditions in which he wished for happiness, health and loved ones and how the turkeys killed for that holiday got the opposite. He concludes with his strong opinion that he does not support factory farming at all and goes back to the saying that his grandmother made earlier in the book “If nothing matters, there’s nothing to save.” 


]]> 2018-02-02 13:43:40 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/nnbov3rcbws3/wish/227473004 daniel_clare https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/nnbov3rcbws3/wish/227495434 2018-02-02 14:27:12 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/nnbov3rcbws3/wish/227495434 Crystal https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/nnbov3rcbws3/wish/227510502 The questions and my answers are in this google doc. ]]> 2018-02-02 14:53:45 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/nnbov3rcbws3/wish/227510502 Question 1 -Ramsey https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/nnbov3rcbws3/wish/227539426 I think he keeps repeating this because there are many people who believe that there’s only one factory farm in the world or that its uncommon to treat animals the way that factory farms do.]]> 2018-02-02 15:48:05 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/nnbov3rcbws3/wish/227539426 ramsey https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/nnbov3rcbws3/wish/227628295 logos 
  1. what is added by having a turkey on Thanksgiving table? (page 249)
  2. one needn't rely on undercover videos by animals rights organizations to know of these atrocities (page 252)
  3. As a child,the first kernel i transferred to the table was symbolic of the thankfulness for my health and the health of my family.( page 264)
ethos

  1. we shouldn't kid ourselves about the number of ethical eating available to most of us (page 256)
  2. Next time you sit down for a meal, imagine that there are nine other people sitting with you at the table (page 259)
  3. The debacle of the factory farm is not, I've come to feel, just a problem about ignorance(page 263)


]]> 2018-02-02 18:46:16 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/nnbov3rcbws3/wish/227628295 naia https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/nnbov3rcbws3/wish/227629239 foreshadowing-
throughout my childhood, we celebrated Thanksgiving at my uncle and aunt's house( page 247)]]> 2018-02-02 18:48:09 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/nnbov3rcbws3/wish/227629239