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So, class, we are in the middle of Tuesdays with Morrie, the 5 branches of Philosophy, our novel Ishmael, group projects, and now...our formal writing assessment for this unit of study. That is a lot to juggle.
For Thursday: the rough draft of your essay is due - minimum 2000 words. See here for details. We will be doing some in-class writing with this essay, but most of it will be written out of class.
Also, answer the following questions pertaining to the article I gave you, entitled, Time to reconsider the ethics of eating. Answer on loose-leaf:
1) What is the author's point of view? Is he biased?
2) Give a few examples of how animals are treated, according to the author. Does this coincide with what you observe here in Senegal?
3) Is there an "ethical" way to eat? Explain.
Finally, view the following photo and post a comment. Are these ethical? Remember ethics is a question of what is right and what is wrong.
photo 1
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I'm not shocked to see this picture. We all know that these things happen in the third world, but just visualizing it gives us an impression. Frankly, it does not give me an impression because I've seen these type of pictures many times. I do however fell the unfairness of this kid being stalked by a vulture while there is a problem in America of obesity.
ReplyDeleteIt's the italian boy
This picture summarize the difference between developped and under-developped countries. While the western societies are only concern with producing more and more food, increasing their population and complaining about their economical situation, whole populations are dying of hunger and thirst in under-developped countries.
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BY: jean-luc
ReplyDeleteStravtion is one of the factors leading behind poverty. Relating that picture to the article we read, tells me that america and european countries tend to over eat alot. As it said in the article that other countries are taking our bad habits. I think we are the leaders that should set a better exsample for lower developing countries to follow by.
It's always the same situation. It's always a picture of a little kid, who's having severe starvation problems. Is it fair? No. Is it right? No. Are we doing anything about it? No. Than are we being ethical? That's a way harder question to answer. Probably not, since people in developed countries don't have this problem, because we have enough food resources. But on the other hand it is very hard, maybe even impossible to get enough food to everyone on this planet. There will always be someone who has more than someone else. If everyone were to get the same amount of food, wouldn't it be common sense to give everyone the same amount of money? But if so, doesn't that bring the whole communism idea back? And is communism right? Is it right to have people work hard and get less money bacause other people have to get money too? No it's not.
ReplyDeleteThis is not a yes or no question. It can be debated on forever and ever, so I can't find the solution, but it's never bad to care. And so maybe we should all just start caring.
- Renaud
I had actually seen this picture before. It won a Pulitzer prize but the photographer attained everything but a good reputation. It is known that after taking the picture, he walked away from the boy leaving him there. The photographer actually committed suicide a few months later. In the article we just read, the author mentions that the food producers can barely keep up with the increasing population. What they don't realize is that we have more than enough food. It's just not well distributed. I think that starvation is a problem caused by the increasing food supply. As said by Ishmael, the population increases due to increase in food supply, not the other way around and as the population keeps growing, so does the amount of people starving. In this case, it is also the fault of the families that have more children that they can feed and then you end up with a family where all the children are undernourished. This is a problem that can be repaired with education about agriculture and simple microeconomics (managing the money in your family and knowing how many kids you can have with the money you make).
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Why would starvation be ethical in any case?
ReplyDeleteWe, students and teachers at an international school in a fairly well developed part of the city are not confronted with these kinds of things in reality, or at least not very often. However, we see the pictures and footage of these kinds of scenes, which make it fairly difficult to comprehend such an extreme difference of possession in a single country. Further away, Senegal inwards, one might be able to be confronted with such a situation. I agree with Goncalo, that it is very much an issue of the distribution of goods and food, because, globally and even nationally, there is enough production and import, to nourish the population. Finally, as a question of right or wrong, this is definitely not ethical,
Toby