Assignments+Due+May+1

Assignments for week of May 1: Eating Animals

READINGS and TAKEAWAYS:

1. Plutarch: The Eating of Flesh [|PlutarchEatingofFlesh8pgsMarked.doc] Your are just responsible for the highlighted sections, but you may find the rest interesting too! ONE TAKEAWAY and ONE QUESTION

2. Peter Singer: "All Animals Are Equal", from //Animal Liberation//, excerpted in //Writings on an Ethical Life//, Harper Collins, New York, 2000. Feel Free to skip from the middle of page 36 to page 41 as a bonus for believing that animals experience pain. TWO TAKEAWAYS and ONE QUESTION [|All Animals are equal.pdf]

3. Peter Singer: pgs. 240-242 from "Speciesism Today", from //Animal Liberation//, Avon, New York, 1975. [|Speciesism Today.pdf] ONE TAKEAWAY and ONE QUESTION

4. Michael Pollan: excerpt from //The Omnivore's Dilemma,// Penguin, New York, 2006. [|Animal Happiness Pol.pdf] TWO TAKEAWAYS and ONE QUESTION

5. Mark Bittman: "Rethinking the Meat-Guzzler", //The New York Times,// January 27, 2008. [|Meat Guzzlers[1.doc]] ONE TAKEAWAY and ONE QUESTION

6. Video: "Glass Walls" on www.meat.org This should be the opening video on the home page of the webpage - Paul McCartney is the talking head. There are a few other videos that might come up, but look for this one. TWO TAKEAWAYS and ONE QUESTION.

ALSO: 7. Write two proposals for public policies to curb the obesity epidemic. A sentence each is sufficient. If you don't think anything should be done, explain why.