Fight Club 9/24

Fight Club 9/24/15

Maddie Myers, Emmeline Dizon, Anna Czelusniak

Pros:

·             Food is such a minimal part of our lives. It is okay for him to not eat his grandma’s famous cooking (chicken and carrots)

o   Disrespectful to her

·             He stuck to his belief not to eat meat despite society’s views

·             More than 99% of the animals eaten in this country are produced by factory farms

·             “Free range”, “cage-free”, “natural”, “organic” are meaningless when it comes to animal welfare

o   How do you know that?

·             Factory farming has made agriculture the number 1 contributor to global warming

·             Every factory-farmed animal is treated in a way that would be considered illegal if it were a cat or a dog

o   But they aren’t cats or dog, they are being farmed for food

Cons:

·             Food to his Grandma is a main component of family history. He is being ignorant his grandma’s past and experiences with food (the Holocaust)

·             Him choosing to raise his children vegetarians causes them to lose hearing about their great- grandma’s history with food, and why she is the way she is about food

·             The grandma equates happiness to food, and she just wants what is best for her family. She really doesn’t want them to be starving the way that she was

·             Not-eating the factory-farmed animals is not going to save them

o   Still animal cruelty that he is not supporting