Slaughterhouse

Personally I have always felt that the best doctor in the world is a veterinarian he can’t ask his patients what is the matter he just has to know” Will Rogers. There are animals injured and with no homes. It is a vet’s job to save their lives and make them feel cared for. A veterinarian is someone who loves and saves animals that are hurt, in order for you to be one you have to know what’s wrong with them. The educational requirements needed to become a veterinarian is a bachelor’s degree and…

Author of The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky, shared his views on the act of banning books with the following statement: “Banning books gives us silence when we need speech. It closes our ears when we need to listen. It makes us blind when we need sight” (“A Quote by Stephen Chbosky”). Challenging books usually comes from trying to protect people, mainly students, from “inappropriate” material found in the book. This can effect teachers by making them lose their flexibility to…

In David Sedaris essay, “Remembering My Childhood on the Continent of Africa” he speaks of his and his partner’s childhood life. His writing is effective and meaning full especially when he speaks of his partners fifth grade trip to the slaughter house, the afternoon after seeing the moving about the talking car, and also the importance of their family. Sedaris seem to be envious of his partner’s life as a child though, he makes it clear that he is half way joking, letting readers know…

She was also named National Humanitarian from American Humane Association in 2011 (“Temple”). She got these awards because she designed a way for cattle to not be stressed before they go to be killed. When they get killed, they are shipped to slaughterhouses for meat. McDonald's and Burger King asked her to make the fast food places more sanitary. To Temple this was one of the best awards (Sepahban 27). Temple accomplished many things that regular people could never do. She can feel what the…

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that about 48 million people are affected by a form of foodborne illness every year. The food industry has created extensive standards for establishments to follow to prevent or reduce outbreaks, however, these standards haven’t always been put in place. In 1993, one of the largest foodborne illness outbreaks occurred in Washington State, Idaho and Nevada affecting 700 and killing four children. What was the common food that all of these…

every week. They are many types of ways we eat chicken, some examples would be fried, whole, baked, and more. Chickens seem like animals to us, but, do we really know how they become the way we look at them today, food? Chickens are produced by a slaughterhouse which makes the chicken’s worst nightmare come to life, and end up in our stomachs. Chickens are said to be healthy for you, it consists of carbohydrates, lipids, and Proteins, but the real question is how much of those molecules does it…

Words can change how people view others and things. Animal Farm is a perfect example to illustrate how the use of words can manipulate the animals into slavery. Different strategies, used by Napoleon and Squealer, persuade the animals into thinking that they were doing right by them. They use words to control the animals which is often done in the real world by people like politicians. Without the power of words in Animal Farm, the rebellion would have not taken place and Napoleon would have…

“community of small farmers” (pg 103). The town was focused on, “agriculture, education, mutual aid, and high moral values” (pg 103). Then when Montfort got the idea to feed his cattle, grain, it ended up being an exceptional one and, “opened a small slaughterhouse” (pg 104). “The Montfort slaughter house was among the highest pay in Greeley,” causing the town of Greeley to become, “a company town, dominated by the Montfort family” (pg 104). However, over the past two decades, they, “turned one…

Keanna Limes P.3 The Jewish race, seen as pestering animals ,were dehumanized by the Nazi party in a matter of about six years. It all started with Kristallnacht and The Nuremberg Laws, when the Jews had all of their businesses, homes, and rights taken away by the infamous leader Adolf Hitler. Being dehumanized means to be gradually reduced to a little more than ¨ things “or be treated like an annoying bug that needs to be exterminated immediately. The Nazis dehumanized the Jews…

into the bodies of a society. In chapter 9 “What’s in the meat” Schlosser reveals that, “Instead of focusing on the primary causes of meat contamination- the feed being given to the cattle, the overcrowding at feedlots, the poor sanitation at slaughterhouses, excessive line speeds, poorly trained workers, the lack of stringent government oversight- the meatpacking industry and the USDA are now advocating an exotic technological solution to the problem of food borne pathogens. They want to…