1. Categorize these animals?snake, lion, tiger, bear, dog, cat, horse, fish, dolphin, human?and place them on a hierarchy that you yourself construct. What is the rationale for your hierarchy? (This could be, for example, usefulness to humans, scariness, danger, power, or many other things.)
2. What is your emotional response to ?Who Swims with The Tuna??
3. Considering Foer?s Eating Animals, Earthlings, and ?Who Swims with The Tuna??, do the benefits of eating animals outweigh the costs? Explain why or why not. What?s your rationale?
4. What is your philosophy of eating animals?
course material
?SAMSARA food sequence?
Earthlings (2007)
Quammen, David (2000). Who Swims with The Tuna. The Boilerplate Rhino: Nature in The Eye of The Beholder (pp. 65-71). New York, NY: Scribner.
Foer, Jonathan Safran (2009). Storytelling (the first one), All or Nothing or Something Else, Words / Meaning. Eating Animals (1-77). New York, NY: Little, Brown.