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Category: Announcements
Article on meat supply disruption
Articles on meat packing industry in coronavirus pandemic, related to “Omnivore’s Dilemma” and “Consider the Lobster.”
This is an opinion article:
And here’s an new article from April 28th.
Possible argument for thesis supporting eating meat.
https://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/99legacy/6-14-1999a.html
Please post your thesis and argument on your personal food choices. You can do this briefly on the blog. The purpose is to make a rational argument for yourself in the present. Of course, in the future, you may have to change your view. But what is your thesis and and argument.
Consider the lobster: Videos of cooking live lobsters
These videos may be upsetting, so don’t watch them if you don’t want to.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=cooking+lobster+live
Video: What is a virus? Virus distinguished from bacteria.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_9DXEnEd-Q
This may be useful. Knowledge is power.
Please reflect upon this information. Does it change your thought process on the current health crisis? What other sources of information can you pursue?
Research as inquiry means finding what you need to know to stay healthy and prosper.
What genre would you call this article on the viral epidemic?
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/03/the-story-of-a-coronavirus-infection.html
It’s a more creative genre, but as far as I know, the facts of the scenario are a possible case. Feel free to comment.
Excellent source of information on health crisis.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCF9IOB2TExg3QIBupFtBDxg
This person is a PhD in nursing, I believe, retired in north of England.
He posts a video daily.
“Selma” (2014)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6t7vVTxaic
“Although the Civil Rights Act of 1964 legally desegregated the South, discrimination was still rampant in certain areas, making it very difficult for blacks to register to vote. In 1965, an Alabama city became the battleground in the fight for suffrage. Despite violent opposition, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (David Oyelowo) and his followers pressed forward on an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, and their efforts culminated in President Lyndon Johnson signing the Voting Rights Act of 1965.” (Wikipedia)
