Blog Post 6

In the chapter “Slices of Paradise/Pieces of Shit”, the history of the food industries and farming development is finally used to make a conclusion that following with the change of social environment, eating animals is gradually becoming unnecessary and being vegetarians already becomes more comfort and fitness. For the author, he opposes against eating animals from the aspect of moral decency rather than meat eating or the meat industry itself is always wrong in nature. His clarification is that his conclusion is based on the society and ethics and he want to convince readers from these angles rather than his personal dislike emotions on eating animals. And he thinks that it is insufficient to convince one or more families to give up animals eating, his destination is leading personal reflections of eating animals to effect the mainstream attitudes in the whole society. His expression of his own ideas and views are used to push other people to know about and think about eating animals. That means he defines his position in the activity of opposing eating animals is telling the world eating animals is a problem should be resolved. Comparing with insisting eating animals is always wrong and denying meat industry, the author’s explanation and clarification make readers more rational to consider the problem of eating animals. It is effective to attract the readers who are not vegetarians and eliminate their opposite emotions caused by different personal standpoints.