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• LOOKING AHEAD

• #2-9  Carnism and Sustainability Quiz in class."Best and Worst" DECIDE ON 2-14: WATCH MORE OF PEACEABLE KINGDOM, FOCUSING ON THREE MALES, OR WATCH COWSPIRACY OR MEET AT LBJ LIBRARY FOR MORE ON DIVERSITY OR WATCH MOVIE NATIONAL PARKS ADVENTURES AT IMAX; 2-11 BLACK PANTHER'S BIRTHDAY. 2-14 DOLPHIN'S BIRTHDAY LEADER: SEA LION

• 2-16 Christian bible and subterranean tradition TO 1700 LEADER: WHITE TIGER

•   #2-14  P3A  DUE;

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• TODAY:

• GUIDED IMAGERY; BEST AND WORST IN PAIRS; QUIZ; DOLPHIN TAKES OVER

• "Best and Worst"  

  385- 413      Why We love Dogs, Eat Pigs, Wear Cows

  414-425         The Face on Your Plate

  426-7                 Swift intro.

  428-431        Modest Proposal, selections

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• https://www.la.utexas.edu/users/bump/303D/Is%20meat%20manly.pdf

MEAT AND GENDER:

 

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  LEADER  by ZION  album HEALING OF A NATION

  LOOKING AHEAD TO DOLPHIN'S BIRTHDAY 2-14

 

https://www.la.utexas.edu/users/bump/303D/Dolphinbirth.mp4

 

   

 

• DOLPHIN SLIDE SHOW

• Symbols (0:00-5:00)

  • Manacles

  • Set us free from our speciesism

  • Break though our psychological numbing and realize what we are doing is cruel

  • Ahimsa

  • Ultimate sign of nonviolence in Jainism and Hinduism

  • Symbol of love

  • We need to apply this love to all animals

  • Hammer

  • We need to hammer our thoughts into unity

  • We need to break away from the invisibility we hold towards the cruelty of Carnism

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  Video (5:00-8:00)

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbjT6CtXrFw

   

  Kahoot Questions and discussion (8:00-11:00)

  • https://play.kahoot.it/#/k/1f99c72f-3231-4268-847c-dc3d3dad39f1

   

  Introduction of Vegan food (11:00-16:00)

  • Does non vegan food really taste that much better?

  • In the background play: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpYeekQkAdc

  • Popcorn Chicken and vegan cookie dough

  • Why do we have a stigma against vegan food?

   

  Video and discussion: people face a moral dilemma (16:00-22:00)

  • Shows we care about people we have an emotional connection with

  • We have less of a problem killing people we don't know.

   

  Blog Discussion (22:00-30:00)

  Dolphin (Ivy Lee)

  Professor Bump

  Outline of Blogs 2-7

   

  White Tiger

  "The truth is that many of us are so disconnected from the site where the violence happens that we are bound to forget unless we are constantly reminded. This means that lack of awareness isn't necessary the issue since many people choose to stay invisible despite their shock from the gained awareness."

  • Even people who have been educated on animal cruelty continue to eat animal meat. For example, I have seen many documentaries depicting animal cruelty in the food system yet I continue to eat meat. It isn't awareness that is the problem it is our disconnection.

  Fallow Deer

  "Therefore, we rely solely on denial as the force driving carnism. It is denial, and denial alone that leads us to commit these acts, and upon facing our own wrongdoings, we are too fatigued by the vastness of them to take steps towards change."

  • Even though we know the wrong doings of the meat industry, we are in denial that it actually means anything. Since slaughtering is invisible to us, we turn away ad pretend that we don't see it.

  Swift

  "When we choose to put meat on our plates, no matter what form it is, we are engaging in carnism because we believe that it is 3. "the way things have always been and the way things will always be." (389) The playing field is level. Until eating meat is no longer 4. "the mainstream way of life," (390) no carnist has the right to say that they are somehow morally better than another."

  • I found this very interesting. We judge other cultures for the food they eat when we have no right to judge. It doesn't matter if you eat dog or pig or cow- you are still a carnist. You can only judge if you are a vegetarian or a vegan.

  Sea Lion

  "We relate to what we feel and to the extent that we can feel. The thought of death, or ceasing of feeling, is more appealing to us than the presence of feeling. It is an experience that is beyond our knowledge so our empathy doesn't extend into the realm of death. Even after death, our empathy revolves around what was felt right before death as if it defines the entirety of the life lived."

  • I've never thought of empathy in this way. We feel empathy for emotions that we are familiar with. So, when animals die, we do not feel empathy for them because we do not know what it is like to die. It is hard for us to extend empathy over something very foreign.

  Panda

  "I think that morality ultimately stems from what we feel–that is, if humans never felt any wrongness/rightness about their actions at all, then there wouldn't be any discussions about morality. To me, framing the eating of animals in this way makes it clear that it is morally inconsistent (especially since we treat the betrayal of our beloved pet-animals as something abhorrent)."

  • Morality stems from what we feel. So, when we butcher animals for our own food, it should be labeled as immoral. Since we know what pain feels like, it is immoral to put that pain on another being.

  Yukon Wolf

  "Language is a powerful tool because it creates a space for discourse. I thought this argument was articulated very well by the author. She makes it clear that the invisible system stays invisible because we refuse to linguistically acknowledge it. I noticed that even in this document, the computer program does not recognize carnist or carnism as real words. Because we refuse to talk about meat-eating as a real problem of animal cruelty, we do not have the language to separate the fact that carnism is a choice from the misconception that it is a necessity."

  • The theme if invisibility is very present I all the blogs. Carnism is invisible al around us. We never hear about it, and never recognize it as being real. When I type the word "Carnism" on a word document, Microsoft word automatically underlines it in red because it is not part of the human vocabulary.

  Blue Whale

  "This invisibly does not just go for meat eating, but other parts of life. 2.)"An example of invisible ideology is patriarchy" (390). We can compare the fact that people tend to try to have values that are labeled as masculine instead of feminine to the fact that people want values that says they care about animals, but not enough to not eat them. Some do not share the values of vegetarians or vegans, but they still care for animals."

  • To label all carnists as violent people is wrong-some do care for the well-being of animals. It is just hard to realize that you are supporting animal cruelty when eating a cake, or even a spring roll. We want to forget the cruelty that we are doing so we disguise it.

  Monkey

  "I think the biggest problem is how we see animals. We can't imagine eating dogs because they're so cute and cuddly. Case in point, if we start making cows and pigs adorable creatures (I honestly don't know if that's possible for chickens, but we can try), then people would have a harder time eating meat."

  • In order to enact change we need to change the way we look at animals. We need to stop labeling and dichotomizing. While it is easy to say that you want change- it is hard to actually enact change. Changing the way everyone views a certain animals is hard, but it is do-able.

  Crow

  "Like the article mentions, most people fall victim to psychological numbing. For some reason I am able to know that meat comes from a cow or chicken and still be okay with eating it. I recognize that they are the same, but subconsciously I associate them as two completely different things – one animal and one object. Twisted."

  • James Oliver did a segment once on McDonalds chicken nuggets. He showed a bunch of children how they are made. Even though the children were aware of the disgustingness of pink slime, they still chose to eat the highly processed chicken nuggets instead of the more natural ones. This is a huge issue that needs to be solved.

  Kangaroo

  ""We can change our perception of our behaviors so that they appear to match our values." (387) This is something most Americans are already doing. We don't think about where the meat comes from. Or the poor animal, that we say we love, that was killed for the burger we are enjoying. We enjoy living in a false reality, because we don't have to think about what were actually doing. One day however we are all going to have to realize that we have to face the truth."

  • This is all part of the psychological numbing that most people go through. We ignore our knowledge about carnism to make ourselves feel better.

  Pika

  "People will try to point out the obscenities of dog consumption in a culture they have no means of understanding for the purpose of ignoring the obscenities happening in their own country."

  • Instead of recognizing the issues in our own culture, we like to point out what other cultures are doing wrong. It is easier to blame other people then look at yourself and tell yourself that what you are doing is wrong.

  Black Panther

  "I truly believe that the debate over the ethics of carnism in consumption is founded in a conversation over empathy: what animals do we empathize with and who taught us to do so? Also, who is to say we are wrong for thinking the way we think about certain animals? I totally agree that "it is impossible to exercise free will as long as we are operating from within the system." (402)"

  • Most of what we know and the way we act is learned. This doesn't exclude food. We learn which animals are ok to eat and we learn which animals aren't. Since most of our parents eat meat, we are taught from a young age that it is ok to eat meat. In order to replace our speciesist ideals with ideals that extend our empathy for all animals, we must cut down our meat consumption from an early age.

   

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