Glenn/Pollan

Before Reading
When I think of a house pet, it is hard to imagine having a cow walking around. When it comes to cats and dogs it is more about the size of the animals and the maintenance that comes along with them. Someone has to question everything in life, like the simplicity of owning a dog or cat as opposed to a cow; somewhat suggesting that dogs and cats are more favored animals, which I'm sure is exactly what every homeowner was thinking at the time, to just neglect the cow and purchase a dog instead. The answer to why dogs and cats are found to be more pet animals is not some hidden secret, it's simply because they are able to adjust to living inside easily, they are smaller animals, and they are easily domesticated. Imagine waking up and finding a cow cradled in the bed with you, I think that is most basic answer to why it is easier to become closer to animals such as dogs. By using the word slaughter to associate with cows, it is acting like some cows aren't cared for and kept simply for the use of their milk.

Summary
The article has to do with using factory farms and treating the animals correctly and how the industry is more focused on money than it is treating the animals correctly before killing them. The article is aimed at either deepening the belief of those who already agree or trying to change the minds of those who do not agree. By taking experts of experiments and research from other authors, Glenn puts everything together to explain the different tactics that the factory farming uses; such as the use of "double speak."

Synthesis
Easily linked to Glenn is Pollan's article because they both discuss the discourse community along with factory farms and look into food and how it is produced. Along with Pollan, Dawkins is another author in which Glenn can be linked to for in Dawkins article, he discusses the use of examples and raising and lowering voice, which is somewhat discussed in Glenn's article.. though it has to do with more along the lines of using voice to deceive others.

QD1
The factory farming industry is mainly focused on profit. Like all companies, the factory farms want to make money, though at times the want for money may drive people to do things that are not exactly ethical. There is no argument as to whether if some of the animals are treated well in the farms because it is apparent that they are not, however, that does not mean that the whole business is bad. It is hard to group every factory farm together because some are ethical when it comes to their animals and some are not. Some farms treat their animals very poorly before killing them and others do not.

My thoughts
When it comes to animals rights activists, it tends to make me upset. There are so many other things going on in the world and these people act as if the animals are the most important things in the entire universe. There are children and adults in America who can barely live based on the amount of money they make, there are children in Uganda who are beaten and hurt ten times worse than the animals in the farms. Does this mean that I am not bothered by how they treat these animals? Of course not, but at the same time I find it, for lack of a better word, annoying because they are animals. They are not as intelligent or as advanced so even though Glenn wanted me so badly to view animals on the same level as me, it just won't happen. There are things in nature called the food cycle, maybe she should read up on it a little bit. All animals kill each other. So if we are animals too, then she should not have a problem with people killing these animals. Watch Animal Plant

Dialectal Notebook

Response	Quotation
The way that Lutz explains the term “doublespeak” is almost comical. He almost acts as if this is the first time that there is a form in text which is used to deceive. It’s as if someone has not tried to not tell him all of the truth before. The food industry is not the first to do this and they are for sure not going to be the last.	“doublespeak is not so much the use of these techniques per se; rather, it is the intent to deceive by using these linguistic forms that constitutes doublespeak.” (Lutz, 147)
To be quite honest, I still do not quite understand all of the meats and exactly from what part of the animal that they come from. I really do not question it either. My mother cooks it and I eat it, that is as simple as it is for me.	“Most of us understand that the terms beef, veal, pork, and poultry are euphemisms employed by the industry to designate flesh from cows, calves, pigs, and birds such as chickens and turkeys. We recognize that such euphemisms are employed mainly for marketing purposes, and for the most part, we accept the practice without necessarily questioning its ethics.” (147)
I find it amusing that every time someone has a problem with something, they have to somehow bring the government into play and place blame on them. If they have that big of a problem with something, change it.. if it can’t be changed than maybe that system is right and you are wrong.	“Clearly, the industry and the government that helps support it, understands ‘food’ animals as no more than the products (meat, dairy, and eggs) that are eventually rendered their short existences” (148)
This goes for so many things in life. Take Africa for example, there are ads and campaigns everywhere for helping the children, but do they show what is actually taking place? The fact of the matter is that people do not want to have to think about the reality of things, so media caters to the wants of the viewers.	“On one hand, internal discourse hides the violence, and on the other, advertisements create an alternative reality to take replace the actual reality.” (149)
PETA in themselves are messed up. Anything involving this organization makes it hard to even hear what has to be said afterward, because they are so hypocritical. They are all for the right treatment of life, mainly animals, yet they have done extreme acts like bombing an animal lab and handing out pictures such as this to small children:	“What PETA argues in its lawsuit (and Dunayer has demonstrated in her research) is that these depictions do not reflect the actual conditions of animals confined on factory farms. (151)