Making Influential Decisions

When making influential decisions or any decision at all, we should avoid lurching towards a conclusion. There is typically a certain technique or way that people use to determine what to do or what side to take. The majority of people use sources to further execute these decisions. For example, when eating a bag of chips, you might examine the nutritional facts to observe how much servings there are, using a real estate agent when buying a house, and researching reviews when traveling or eating out.
The internet and other contemporary media offer numerous sources and it has become furthermore accessible to find them. The ease of posting services creates increased suspicion in regard to whether the source is reliable. One way to determine …show more content…
Another way to see if the source is reliable is if the author is benefiting from your decision. For instance, if the article is talking on the subject of how momentous “People” magazine is and the author is Jess Cagle, who coincidentally is the editor of that magazine, hence that would not be a reliable source. Another way to check to see if the source is credible is if the author also mentions both sides of an argument. When an author presents both sides of a controversy it alludes to the reader that they have the power to decide on where they stand on the topic and compelss the reader believe the author.
Today I am going to shape you into the poster child of a complex issue that several people are unaware of and that is gestational stalls in swine protection. “A gestation crate is a steel crate that is approximately seven feet long and two feet wide” (Bob Segall). Gestation stalls are used for only pregnant sows before they conceive. The sows have their own food and water, which protects them from fighting over food. This is where the controversy begins, several say that “gestation crate is the definition of animal cruelty” and that the pork industry needs to change (Matt Dominguez). However, the pork industry