Class blog

In this class, we have been using the blog as a communication tool to update our process of work and inform one another about our works. Blog is created to be used to facilitate other parts of assignments. In everyday life, blogs are created for the purpose of communication as well, and blogs can effectively involve other people into the ongoing dialogue at the present.

Blogs !

CP prompt

I was previously a meat lover, until I have some sense of why Buddhism encourage meatless diet. However, I grow up in a society where religious belief is not at all ingrained in people's mind, and the food industry has developed maturely centered around meat eating. It's hard to dine out without being tempted by those well cooked, delicious and well advertised dishes of meat. Therefore, in order to become more determined on the way of becoming a vegetarian, I deliberately search for all kinds of information that would work to persuade me. However, I see a lot of organization and article they write focus on animal rights. As a meet lover, those information barely work for me. I'll have a hard time struggling between my own appetite and the high moral stand of animal rights. Faced with those critics of cruelty, I started to question myself, "Is it because I don't care about animal welfare enough that I'm a meat lover?" From my perspective, the answer is no. It's not that we don't care about animals. We're born in a meat consuming society, and the meat industry has already established its hegemony for a long time. Our eating habits, and even our thought about meat consuming is somehow shaped by this dominant culture. The most delicate specialty in every restaurant, or the most representative dish in every place, is almost always those dishes made from meat. One simply can not avoid meat consuming unless the person make meals himself/herself. Besides, we're inundated by information that tells us how meat is good for us and how meat is an absolute necessity for our daily dietary intakes. It's not really because we're born indifferent about animal welfare. Therefore, I come to think that if those vegetarian organization and those vegetarian website focus more on the health issue concerning meat concerning instead of animal rights critics, maybe more people would find themselves easily giving up habits of meat consuming.