Filthy Animal Stereotypes

Introduction Animals exist on the borderline of our ethical concepts, despite forming a large part of the environment around us. Whether we tend to feel outraged about the treatment of an animal depends on how ‘cute’ the animal is. Take the example of the Dog Meat festival in China, which raised a huge outcry on social media when people learnt about it. These are the same people who have no problems eating cows and pigs. This hypocrisy exists because we generally don’t tend to think much about animal ethics.

“Animal cruelty is one of the most unfortunate and barbaric demonstrations of human beings manipulating ill conceived notions of ‘power’ over other species.” - Ian Somerhalder All of us sitting here today have most likely eaten meat before. You have most likely fried an egg, worn leather, laughed at the circus, and enjoyed an outing to the zoo. Most, if not all of us, have bought a beloved fish from Animal Kingdom. We have all worn wool and eaten a KFC Burger. And most likely, all of us have enjoyed these things without even considering the impact on the animals involved.

The journey matters more than the destination because in the journey people can gain memories. The details are all in the journey and not much happens when someone reaches their destination. In life there are many examples of when does the journey matter more than the destination. In the section “The Cattle of The Sun God” of The Odyssey there is one specific example of this point. It is when the crew is told to not eat Helios’s cattle ,“No sooner had I caught sight of our black hull, than savory odors of fat eddied around me” (Homer line 895-898).

It lowered its head, intending to ram its way to freedom with its horn leading the way. The nobleman was an experienced one so he almost lazily set his spear, point it at the charging pig. The pig impaled itself on it, working itself up the spearhead until it was stopped by the lugs. The nobleman had planted the butt of the spear on the ground so he was able to set himself well and took the weight of the fast-moving animal without any difficulty. The pig made a few weak movements but it was already dead.

what is so big deal a vegetarian will face in a country having most number of vegetarians in the whole world? “A lot” Starting from your friend telling you what you are missing on how good chicken tastes to the people who do not even know you but give unsolicited advices just because they can. I am a vegetarian since birth; no one in my family eats meat products. Hence the concept of vegetarianism was cultivated in me. Being said as the years go by I had many encounters or to say chances to eat whatever I liked (advantage of being grown up).

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Babe: The Gallant Pig The book I read is called Babe. In the beginning, of the book a farmer named Mr.Hogget enters a contest at the fair to guess the weight of a pig. If anyone guessed the correct weight of the pig, he or she wins it. Mr. Hogget carried the pig and guessed the correct weight. When he takes the pig to the farmhouse a sheepdog named Fly, and her pups talk about how humans only eat the "stupid" animals like cows, pigs, and chickens.

The advertisement says, “THE ONLY THING THAT SHOULD GET BETWEEN A HUNTER AND HIS MEAT IS BREAD.” This is written in a font like what you would commonly find on signs that mark public hunting land, which makes it recognizable to just about any hunter. All of the text, with the exception of the Arby’s logo, is capitalized, which is how text usually appears on these signs. Most of the text is relatively small, but there are some words that stand out that really grab your attention. These words are A HUNTER and MEAT, which makes sense in this ad because all hunters like meat. It is almost like this ad is screaming these words at you, which helps to pound these words into your head and influence your decision on what you will eat.

It was so much fun to play Indians with Mr. Bill or "Old Hank". We had supper of bacon, bread, and gravy, and I told them that they were to be scalped and burned. I woke up in the middle of the night by myself and got ready to scalp Old Hank. Right as I had gotten the knife to cut his hair off with he awoke and began screaming bloody murder! His screams caused Sam to wake up and scold me because I was playing so literally.

Societal standards say that only “real men” eat meat. “The association is so close that meat has become metaphorically ‘male’, such that meat eaters are perceived as more masculine than vegetarians” (Loughnan 2). The perception of animals also plays an important role in eating animals. Those who perceive an animal as “mindful” wouldn’t even think about eating it. “…an animal’s perceived mind…are key factors influencing people’s willingness to eat it” (Loughnan 2).

As a Vietnamese American, if someone inquires whether Vietnamese people eat dogs, I felt a sense of a macroaggression in that question. However, I understood that it did not intend to be insulting but regarded it as a common stereotype among all Asian Americans. This stereotype assumes that all individuals of Asian descent has tasted dog meat since its media release. In one form of media that began this stereotype, “Dog meat has been the subject of lurid stories from epicurean tourists ever since Captain Cook and his crew landed on what they referred to as the Sandwich Islands (which we now know as Hawaii)” (Wu 39). In this particular context, visitors to one of our Asian races (Hawaiian) witnessed a story that made them believe that Asians consume dog meat.

From his hand two cold cuts of roast beef flapped wet and slimy at the edges. I sidled up, cast him dirty looks. Soon all the meat was gone and I was licking my whiskers and if you squinted hard enough, you might have seen a touch of a smile on his face. He calls me Fermi, people call him Mulder. Person is more precise, if you’d like—crazy people don’t attract friends, it seems, at least once they turn 55 and move out to the boondocks and put up NO TRESPASSING signs up front.

While many people opt for the vegan lifestyle because they disagree with animal agriculture — be it meat or dairy production — in my humble, and somewhat bias opinion, others who are going to the store, as well as other retail outlets across the nation that offer similar products, are standing in line for the exact thing they have been complaining about — “manufactured food products.” The products are just dressed up as something other than what they really are, so I guess it is the vegan equivalent of mystery meat. When you boil it all down just about everything we consume has been “manufactured” in some way. I can remember manufacturing lots of food when I was a kid. We manufactured butter just about every Saturday in old mayonnaise jars. We’d shake and roll the jars filled with fresh cream, skimmed from the raw milk that either an old Jersey or Guernsey cow manufactured, with a pinch of

Animal Cruelty from Food Companies There is nothing more satisfying to American than sinking their teeth into a Big Mac, Chicken Fries, or bacon. This may be a very disturbing image to many people. If it is really thought about, someone will come to the conclusion that that piece of grilled meat in between a bun was once a living thing no matter what animal it came from. Animals are tortured everyday just so humans can have a nice cut of meat. Not all people or companies who raise, sell, and slaughter animals treat them cruelly, but a majority of them abuse the animals unnecessarily.