Deckha's Summary

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This was my favorite reading of the semester because it was interesting, straight forward, and informational. The only thing that I disagree with Deckha is the idea about slaughter houses. I was not sure if she was claiming that we should not slaughter animals, or we should make sure that we kill animals in a more human way. IF she was against the killiing of animals I believe she is wrong because we have have natural food chains: humans just happen to be at the top. I agree with the Deckha's idea that we need to start looking at certain people as human instead of subhumans. Deckha explains that many humans try to use radical procedures to help justify to treat people who are different than you bad. We can look at some Americans feel the need

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