Pigs on the Wing

What ethical issues most concern you as a food consumer? In the 80’s advertisement had everyone asking “Where’s the beef”. The trouble is, no one was asking how the beef is raised, and who was handling the beef. As a matter of fact, most consumers still aren’t taking interest in the ethical issues of food. On the other hand, several authors in the book “Food Matters; A Bedford Spotlight Reader”, not only take an interest in the issues, but bring the matters into light. Peter Singer writes…

As a slave in this time period it is extremely difficult to be worth something more than a dollar sign. You are sold into slavery and you work for a landowner who honestly thinks your lesser value than a pig. This lowers a person's self-esteem so how these people survived is incredible. They were given this test and all of humanity says here and pass it. They were given this circumstance and they conquered it. So Fredrick douglass's suffering was one of…

Prior to the Cold War that took place from 1947 to 1991 in various parts of Europe, Latin America and the United States, the United States had established and extended the Monroe Doctrine that had previously warned Europeans against retaking their former colonies. When the U.S. decided to extend this doctrine, they put it in a Cold War context, in which it allowed the U.S. to strengthen Latin American states militarily against communist penetration. Because of North America’s long and…

The Moscow Food Co-op and the Principle Six Movement: Personal Identity in Conflict with the Workplace Readymade I started working at the Moscow Food Co-op in the summer of 2015. Principle Six (P6) is a marketing tool that was implemented at the Co-op this August. It is named after the Sixth Cooperative Principle: Cooperation Between Cooperatives. Certain items throughout the store are labeled P6 to indicate they were either locally grown, small and independently owned, Cooperative (as opposed…

Refugee finding a job in America I arrived the United States after 14 hours of flying, I was exhausted, and everything was new for me. I soon realized the new life would not be easy, but I was determined and decided I would never give up. I took my first step to getting a driver license, and I knew I have to pass a hard driving test actually, it was not a hard test for the people who used to live in America but, It was hard for me because, I had a car and I use to drive in Iraq but, there was a…

The Shiites had articulated the doctrine that only a descendent of the Prophet’s cousin and son-in-law, Ali ibn Abi Talib, could be imam or leader of the Muslim community. This Shiite group split into activist and quietist wings – the quietist was called Imami or “Twelver” Shiites, they believed the line of visible imams had ended in 874 when the twelfth imam, still only an infant, believed to gone into hiding in Samarra, from which he will return as Mahdi. The activist, the…

The journey starts, accompanied by Rosaleen, a large African American women having no children of her own, so for the last ten years, Lily had “been her pet guinea pig”( Kidd 2). Set in South Carolina, The Secret Life of Bees frame the turbulent time period of 1964. The civil rights movement is in progress. Kidd draws from her memories the emotional and political turmoil of 1964 civil rights in her novel. With the…

“I’m going to put wings on pigs today. They take 1 of ours…Let’s take 2 of theirs #ShootThePolice #RIPEricGarner #RIPMikeBrown This may be my final post”(Mueller, Baker) posted Ismaaiyl Abdullah Brinsley on Instagram hours before brutally killing two NYPD officers. On December 20, 2014, NYPD officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu were brutally executed by Ismaaiyl Abdullah Brinsley who committed the acts under the motive of revenge for the deaths of Eric Garner, Michael Brown and others who died…

Change is necessary; necessary for moving forward, and necessary in fact for survival. We, as a society, need to change the way we live for the sake of the earth, the animals, and ourselves. The most practical solution, and the one that would have the most impact, is to shift to a more plant-based diet. Vegetarianism means not eating meat while veganism is a lifestyle that entails not consuming or using any animal goods, and while it may seem extreme to some, the benefits of such a diet are…

naiveté. She only becomes cognizant of the irreversibility and magnitude of those choices once it is too late. Arnold Friend represents the dark and irreversible consequences that come with making adult choices, and the evil that is waiting in the wings as the curtain closes on our childhood. In the article “In Fairyland Without a Map,” Gretchen Schulz and R.J.R. Rockwood argue that had Connie “been nurtured on fairy tales instead of popular songs and movies she would not feel at such a loss,”…