Glenn Response

BEFORE YOU READ:

1.        I really wasn't around a lot of farm animals growing up. I lived in the city and the only family we had that was "farm-ish" was my great uncle Bob and my great aunt Vicki. They lived a little outside the Heath/Newark area about twenty minutes with a large cattle farm. They would occasionally have the whole family out for special parties. The cows would be out behind the house in a large pin that had lots of room to move around. Being as young as I was I wasn't told what was done with the animals exactly. I still do not know what was done with them, but I hope it wasn't the same as what is done in some videos I've seen on the internet. 

SUMMARY:
In the beginning of her article she gives a historical background on the farms and in a way the animals treatments and how nature is used. Then she talks about "double speak" which is a discourse style associated with the factory farm industry, and is in meaning of promotion and also redeeming, in the ways of covering for bad press. She follows up talking about animal rights and "happy cows". She finishes her article with different ways to study, revise, and remodel not only the way animals are treated but also the education levels that consumers are taught to know more about what is really going on.

SYNTHESIS:
Glenn's article compares to Porter's article because both talk about discourse communities. Glenn actually goes into details to mention specific communities involved with animal treatment and such. She mentions how to better educate these same communities in her third sub section. It also compares to Pollan's article with teh means of profit. Profit is thought to be over everything. So we are known for giving animals cheap grains and other types of food sources to save money for the company.

DIALECTICAL NOTEBOOK: five quotes

Response:	Quote:
This makes me think about the way that we treat "domestic animals", like cats or dogs, which we feed, shelter, love, even treat as children. And then how we treat "wild" and "farm" animals, as if they are products solely for consumption.	"In these three narratives, the human animals are directly connected to the land and to the nonhuman animals they use and consume- thy live with, hunt alongside, know, understand, and respect both the land and other animals they exploit." page 144
Discourses and problems with animals's rights have been an underlying problem that has been pulsing throughout our nation since it was founded. Before animals were used for not only food, but also for labor. Now that we use technology, they are only seen as product for consumption.	"The technological meta-discourse, influenced by colonial discourses, assumes that human's relationship to their environment is one mediated by the use of technology to facilitate a consumerist approach to natural resource exploitation." page 146
This mentions doublespeak which is where they turn the tables on negative press that they receive for the way the animals are treated.	"Dunayer points to numerous examples of factory-farming language that, I argue, constitute doublespeak, and each accomplishes the same objective: using sterile language to hide violence." page 147
This is an example of doublespeak, but also an example of "spinning". Spinning which is very popular among the rich and famous and the media, is a way to turn key words into double meanings.	"The factory farming discourse hides vicious practices by constructing them as 'natural', 'accommodating', and 'comfortable' for the animals confined in the factory." page 149
This is disheartening because if we treat animals as if they are a product, how would we treat humans in the same aspect. Not stating that we should eat them, but rather than see something as a stat, we should see it for what it is, a living being.	"For the factory farm, as in other corporations, the bottom line is profit." page 149

Q.D.1:

The main characteristics are, the creation, sustainability, and constructed strategies to make things cruel and dangerous to the environment. This makes the factory farm seem like a looming and intimidating problem that no one knows how to handle. And the discourse is unethical because if whether or not the farm actually does practice humane treatment of animals, there will always be people who do not agree and support them. We need to get the facts out on the table and not have double speak or spinning added to the argument at hand and let the facts and realities speak for themselves so that we can move forward in means of creating more safe, sanitary, and better for all those involved farms.

THOUGHTS: 

I think that Glenn has a decent argument and did loads of research before entering into the argument and positioning herself among others who feel similar. She does however seem to be biased and very self centered with what she wants the outcome to be for not only the animals, but the entire discourse community. She makes good points and I liked that she gave the definitions to terms that she coined and discovered during research. I think that she could have used less graphic wording for some examples because hearing about what happens to baby pigs made me sick to my stomach.