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Respoond and Critique Instructor
Respoond and Critique Instructor
Regets incapable of abstract thought, they are imprisoned in an eternal present, have no sense of the extended future and hence cannot be said to have an interest in continued existence(pg.6). This is especially true with farm animals. Steiners basically insinuates that all humans and animals are the same. I agree with Jeremy. Its strange because its a wild animal, they dont have a moral compass. They dont have the same brain as humans, therefore they dont think like us, or act like us. You face quite a few social difficulties as well, perhaps the chief one being how one should feel about spending time with people who are not vegans (Pg.7). Imagine being the only one at the dinner table not being able to animal products. Vegans, Im sure get asked about it every time they eat. Questions like why cant you eat that? Do you think youre morally superior to the rest of us? That must get tiring, having to go thru that everyday. I for one do not care if someone is a vegan. That is their choice, and I respect that. I dont look at someone differently for not eating meat. In fact I give them all the credit in the world for being able to resist the social pressures in a meat- crazed society. Being a strict ethical vegan is something that I cant even fathom doing for one day, let alone a lifetime. This article was written in 2009, and we are still talking about it, four years after the fact. I do not agree with his opinions, thoughts, and his tone with meat-eaters; I do, however, respect his opinions. Steiner knew he wasnt going to change everyones minds about eating meat with just this article. He believed that if he only changed one persons mind, then he did his job. If he made one family choose something else besides turkey on Thanksgiving, then it was worth all the flack he got for writing this piece. Steiner calls meat-eaters ignorant and dumb for eating meat. Killing animals is going to happen no matter what we do. If you want to plant and harvest crops, then you are destroying a land where animals once inhabited. Animals eat other animals. Why? To survive; it is the law of the jungle, which simply means every man for himself. I dont think that before a cheetah attacks a zebra in the jungle he stops and thinks to himself that he shouldnt do that because the zebra has feelings or is just plain wrong for killing something. Why is that? Its because if he doesnt kill that animal, then he will starve and die. Be the hunter or be the hunted.
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Works Cited
Steiner, Gary. Animal, Vegetable, Miserable. Exploring Relationships: Globalization and Learning in the Century. Boston: Pearson Learning Solutions, 2013. 5-7. Print. 21st