Meet Your Meat Analysis

Significant discoveries have the ability to generate far reaching and transformative impacts which catalyse renewed perceptions of the self, others and the world. However, in order for these impacts to happen, individuals and readers must be willing to reflect on certain discoveries, which is seen in Robert Gray’s poems The Meatworks and North Coast Town and Nam Le’s The Boat. This notion is explored through; firstly, provocative and confronting external experiences facilitate transformed perceptions of the self others and the world. Secondly, that there can be far reaching ramifications when individuals uncover the falsehoods and truths of the past.

Almost everyone loves the sight of animals, or at least one in particular. We do not mean to think down on animals or take superiority over them, but it is the truth, it happens. Even though it should not happen, it does. Animals and humans should be equal in rights and superiority. We should also stop treating them as if all animals are pets because in reality, wild is wild. Feeding animals as if they are pets, just to get close to them, is

Do animals have the right to a certain quality of life? How would your views change if our cooks got treated the same way cattle and poultry do? How would you feel about them being beaten and brought to their knees just to be detained to know how to cook todays specials? You might think that the food industry has no issues and no faults behind their tasty food, but when you open up the meat curtain, there is a different kind of world out there that is cruel and inhumane. In Robert Kenner’s 2008 film, Food, Inc., He shows the conditions that cows, chickens, and pigs have to live in. The dark and closeted homes in which the animals are closely compacted together and eating, sleeping, and walking in their own manure. As a person who would consider themselves an animal rights activist, most people would agree that the food industry treats their animals like products instead of living things.

It is hard to imagine that there was once a time when meat and meat-like products were butchered and processed in unsanitary conditions, but there was such a time and it was so bad that Congress had to pass the Federal Meat Inspection Act of 1906 to stop these unsanitary conditions. In this paper I will argue why the passage of the Federal Meat Inspection Act of 1906 was such a good idea.

The statement by Paul McCartney rings true, “If slaughterhouses had glass walls everyone would be a vegetarian.” Animal rights is a concept which people hardly ever consider in a serious light. Being born as a human being, having a superior mental capacity and sense of times makes people think that they can rule this world and use other living beings as they see fit. This mentality leads to people say things like “animals are born to eaten” or how Aristotle claimed “all of the nature exist specifically for the sake of men” and “that animal are merely instruments for humankind.” (Pg. 495). This way of thinking often leads to overconsumption of animals, cruelty to animals and loss of species.

Discoveries are everywhere in everyday life and they can impact the way we see the world, either positively or negatively. Because of this, it can be noted that “Not all discoveries are welcomed”. We can explore this philosophy through the examination of various techniques found within both Robert Gray’s ‘Journey, North Coast’ and ‘The Meatworks’, as well Leo Matsuda’s animated short film, ‘Inner workings’. These three texts, although all having visual processes of discovery, offer juxtaposing perspectives on the acceptance (or lack of) towards discoveries.

Would you do anything to keep your family together? The novel Bastard out of Carolina, written by Dorothy Allison, reveals the early life of the main character, Bone. Born an illegitimate child, Bone grew up being physically and sexually abused by her step-father. The novel My Year of Meats, written by Ruth L. Ozeki, showcases the behind-the-scenes story of a reality television show, My American Wife. The show was produced by BEEF-EX, a meat company. The show was created to “create a new truism: The wife who serves meat has a kinder, gentler mate” (Allison 13). Although the novels may seem to be completely different, they both have a strong theme of family. Characters in both novels are not only forced to make decisions that affect themselves and their families, but they also make decisions based on their families’ opinions. The main characters in both novels have hidden the truth to protect their families, but they both received different outcomes.

Through an individual’s life experience and challenges , a process of discovery can be undertaken serving as a catalyst for renewed perceptions of themselves and others. Robert Grey explores this concept in “The Meatworks” where the persona is forced to confront uncomfortable truths about the materialistic nature of society. This notion is furthered in “Flames and Dangling Wire” in which Grey depicts the negative consequences of change and development, portraying a grim image of the self-destruction of humanity. Similarly “Big World”, a short story by Tim Winton portrays how the introduction of a new environment can catalyse significant change within an individual, inducing new understanding of ourselves and the world around us.

Recently in one of my English classes we begin to study the importance of eating meat and treating animals. We started off with articles of different meanings but then we began to watch a movie named Temple Grandin which really caught my attention. Temple Grandin was very different than her fellow classmates and got made fun of constantly. She had, as the doctors said, Autism. Although she had a different type of Autism she still did what she wanted to do. Later in the movie she began to do some research and discovers something that she never saw before and what caught my attention. Cattle, as she saw, were “mooing” because of what seems that something is scaring them away from the farmers before being slaughtered. As she would say, “Nature is cruel but we don’t have to be”. She then created a system that made the cattle comfortable before being slaughtered. Grandin then began showing others and others about her system and became a star. Grandin believed that if these animals gave us food the best thing we can do is treat them with care. Which also came to my senses and made me believe in the same thing Temple Grandin believes in. Animals are killed for us everyday and we treat them very badly, which is very sad. If they are being killed for us then let's treat them with respect and use Temple Grandin system all over the world.

One Man’s Meat, by E.B. White, written in 1939 and 1940, was written when the U.S. was starting to get involved in WWII. White uses the war to prove the thesis of the collection, which is that safety and comfort will not protect people from the unknown results of change. E. B. White tries to reveal truths and realities that are hard to handle, for instance that change is inevitable. People live their comfortable lives oblivious to the tragedies around them. White uses innocuous symbolism to make his points clear. As the collection of essays progresses, the essay’s purposes become more poignant and blantlent. In the first essay, Removal, White moves his family to Maine and tries to get rid of trivial possessions. He comes across an old, gold,

This video was too graphic for me. I really don’t like watching videos of animals killing or eating others. I know is part of life and the food chain, but I am a little bit sensitive to that.

Bordeaux is an elegant restaurant in Brooklyn. They opened only a few years ago, yet already business seems to be booming. It doesn’t marvel me they have customers come again. They have superlative food, wonderful service and a party section.

It doesn’t make sense to eat meat when there is no need to do so. Humans can live long, happy, and healthy lives on an all plant-based food diet. Sense this is correct, there is no need to continue to put these animals in pain that is no longer necessary for our survival. The treatment of these animals is inhumane and brutal. This treatment is equivalent to a person beating up your dog and killing it because they think it is fun. The only plausible reason humans eat meat is merely for the taste of it. Who doesn’t like a nice juicy steak, but if you were to really know about what it took for that piece of meat to reach your dinner table and truly understand the pain and suffering, then you would never order that piece of steak again.

Humans have always had a complicated relationship with non-human animals. This relationship has always benefitted the needs of humans, with little consideration for animals’ needs. Some animals are tortured for entertainment, some are butchered for food and others are taken from their habitat and family, and forced to be pets for humans. These are all examples of the ways humans have exploited animals for their own satisfaction. Hal Herzog’s essay “Animals Like Us” describes the complicated relationship that humans and animals have, and how difficult it is to determine what is ethical when dealing with animals. Jonathan Safran Foer makes a similar observation in his essay “The Fruits of Family Trees” of the ethical issues in the

For example, having their beaks burn trimmed to a smaller size, killing the ones that are not useful, and keeping them locked up in cages in order to breed and produce more eggs. In my opinion, I believe that the director probably shows this to the viewers to show them how humans are destroying the beautiful things that are shown in the Baraka documentary. Maybe more people after seeing this documentary and viewing what occurs to these animals, they might become vegetarians and do their part in helping this animal cruelty to stop.