Showing posts with label Nomble' Lee. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nomble' Lee. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
TWB#4 Nick Cooney's Presentation
After watching and listening to Nick Cooney's presentation I realized that I know very little about factory farming and its horrors. One very scary and interesting thing that I learned from the presentation was about gestational crates. These are tiny crates that pregnant pigs are forced to stay in throughout the duration of their pregnancy. I found this to be very sad and mean towards pigs. In many other countries they are outlawed. The enivornment was mentioned in the presentation and this was not only interesting but mind blowing. i couldnt believe that factory farming was harming our earth so much. Also Nick Cooney gave outstanding averages for the amount of animals that are held on most factory farms in America. He said that some factory farms have up to five hundred thousand chickens in one chicken house. This means that they are all cramped up together and very uncomfortable. The presentation was highly informative but at the same time I felt a bit sad because of the treatment given to these poor farm animals. I hope that things some day change.
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Human/Nonhuman Animals
What do you feel distinguishes human animals from nonhuman animals?
I feel that the one of the largest and only distinguishing factors between human animals and nonhuman animals is their appearance. In the text that we were assigned to read by Rene' Descartes, he shows very strong feelings about the deep differences between human animals and nonhuman animals. He seems to feel that nonhuman animals are highly inferior to human animals. I would have to disagree with this because I believe that animals have emotions, feeling and most importantly souls. They might not communicate as we do or act in ways that we understand but every animal knows the value of life and they prove this by existing here on earth. Another small distinction between human and nonhuman animals is the fact human animals have more power; not physically but mentally. Human animals are able to control much of their lives in ways that nonhuman animals cannot. In conclusion I believe that the distinghishing factors between human and nonhuman animals are minor. Nonhuman animals have many of the same organs as humans do. They merly lack the mental make up of human brains but maybe ...just maybe thats what makes them different and unique to humans not inferior.
Nomble' F. Lee
I feel that the one of the largest and only distinguishing factors between human animals and nonhuman animals is their appearance. In the text that we were assigned to read by Rene' Descartes, he shows very strong feelings about the deep differences between human animals and nonhuman animals. He seems to feel that nonhuman animals are highly inferior to human animals. I would have to disagree with this because I believe that animals have emotions, feeling and most importantly souls. They might not communicate as we do or act in ways that we understand but every animal knows the value of life and they prove this by existing here on earth. Another small distinction between human and nonhuman animals is the fact human animals have more power; not physically but mentally. Human animals are able to control much of their lives in ways that nonhuman animals cannot. In conclusion I believe that the distinghishing factors between human and nonhuman animals are minor. Nonhuman animals have many of the same organs as humans do. They merly lack the mental make up of human brains but maybe ...just maybe thats what makes them different and unique to humans not inferior.
Nomble' F. Lee
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