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Assignments for week of April 24: Eating Animals

READINGS and TAKEAWAYS:

1. Plutarch: The Eating of Flesh 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. TWO TAKEAWAYS and ONE QUESTION

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

4. Michael Pollan: excerpt from //The Omnivore's Dilemma,// Penguin, New York, 2006. TWO TAKEAWAYS and ONE QUESTION

5. Mark Bittman: "Rethinking the Meat-Guzzler", //The New York Times,// January 27, 2008. 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.

8. If you have not already done so, please write what issues raised in the computer unit would be important to explore in more depth in future courses.

SUBMIT ALL OF THE ABOVE TO TURNITIN.COM by TUESDAY, APRIL 26, 6 p.m.

Remember, we will have class on Wednesday, April 27 and Friday, April 29.