1. I was a vegetarian for almost a year and a half and during that time I was crazy about animal rights and animal equality. I was constantly talking about how horrible animals are treated and looking back on it now I was probably extremely annoying. Yes, animals are treated bad, especially in the food industry where they are born and raised for their meat. But since that time I've come to realize that you can't save all the animals, you just can't. Why were they created, why did our ancestors eat meat ? Apparently if society has gotten this far then there must be some reason that we continue to eat meat. Whether it's because God created them to be eaten, we would be over populated if we didn't, for the health benefits or because they simply taste good. After hundreds of thousands of years we're still eating meat.
2. I realize this article isn't supposed to be focused around the example of Farm Industry and how cruel it is but I think it's hard to focus on the real point of the article with such a strong example. One of the questions in my mind is how can people live with themselves? Not the farmers who make a truthful living and treat their animals with respect and real living beings but the farmers who beat their animals and treat them as if they're not a living, breathing beings. Do they realize the beings that they are treating so horribly is what is producing their paycheck?
3. The idea of double speak that Wardle introduces is an interesting concept especially with the farm industry example. Wardle discussed that commercials and the fact that they are clearly lying to us in two ways; cows don't speak (which really isn't a lie) and also what the cows are saying is a lie. The California cheese cows are probably more than likely in a single pin that is extremely small that allows them no room to move. How is it legal for these commercials to be so deceptive? How gulable and oblivious are people that believe that farmers actually take care of these animals and treat them with respect.
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