Life Lessons Learned In Sylvia Plumwood's Being Prey

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Plumwood mentioned many life lessons learned after almost being eaten by a crocodile the most important lesson that I think she may have learned at that point of her life is the fact that him are not expect from being apart of the food chin like we may like we may seem to think. Plum wood uses the words human supremacist to characterize the western culture, due to the western culture refusing to believe that humans are also animals positioned in the food chain. Before reading “Being Prey” I would of never accepted some one telling me that I was apart of the food chain and it was ok to be eaten by another animal or insect. After the reading I understand Plumwood point and of view and I now believe that humans are apart of the food chain we may

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