Sunday, October 31, 2010

HW 12

Thesis:  Many of the dominant social practices in our society - practices that define a "normal" life - on further investigation turn out to involve nightmares and industrial atrocities.

Main claim:  Through our dominant culture we view our foods as normal but when it is further investigated you can see that our food is being made differently then we imagine.

Claim 1:  Slaughterhouse conditions
Evidence:  Fast food nation- Animal treatment
Evidence:  Injury statistics in slaughterhouses
Evidence:  E. coli statistics

Claim 2:  Food is sold to society without information about how the food is produced.
Evidence:  Food labeling
Evidence:  Cleaning meat (bleached)- Food Inc.
Evidence:  Overcrowding animals at farms/slaughterhouses

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