#5 Ann Hodgman- "No Wonder They Call Me A Bitch" Authors Claim- The author wants to convince the reader to pay more attention to the ingredients in their pet's food and subsequently their own food. She goes with the drastic approach of trying different types of dog food to show the public that their disgust in her for doing eating it is hypocritical. the reader is repulsed by the thought of what's in the food she's eating but they turn around and feed it to the animal that they supposedly care so much about and want to be healthy. the author hopes to show that once you start questioning what you feed your animal, you may start questioning what you feed yourself or your children.
Commentary- Ann Hodgman proves that society is very hypocritical and lazy. We as a culture say our pets are part of the family and we want the best for them but we don't pay attention to what we feed them. we are lazy because, instead of putting the effort in to prepare food from scratch, we buy prepackaged food without paying attention to what's in it.we not only do this with our pets, we do it with ourselves. the vast percentage of the food in our kitchen is made beforehand with ingredients we've either never heard of or question why …show more content…
the wasp does not attack any other species of spider other than the one that will properly feed her young and when placed in a cage with a different type of spider will die because it is not her instinct to kill it, the same reason the right type of tarantula will die at the hands of the wasp because the tarantula doesn't have the instinct to kill it unless it feels threatened. evolution makes us for these instinctual flaws by providing the tarantula with a higher egg count than the wasp just like every species of every animal or even plant has evolved to better fit its surroundings over
Commentary- Ann Hodgman proves that society is very hypocritical and lazy. We as a culture say our pets are part of the family and we want the best for them but we don't pay attention to what we feed them. we are lazy because, instead of putting the effort in to prepare food from scratch, we buy prepackaged food without paying attention to what's in it.we not only do this with our pets, we do it with ourselves. the vast percentage of the food in our kitchen is made beforehand with ingredients we've either never heard of or question why …show more content…
the wasp does not attack any other species of spider other than the one that will properly feed her young and when placed in a cage with a different type of spider will die because it is not her instinct to kill it, the same reason the right type of tarantula will die at the hands of the wasp because the tarantula doesn't have the instinct to kill it unless it feels threatened. evolution makes us for these instinctual flaws by providing the tarantula with a higher egg count than the wasp just like every species of every animal or even plant has evolved to better fit its surroundings over