• italy
  • spain
  • india
  • japan
  • thailand
  • cambodia
  • anywhere within africa
mar 17 2010 ∞
may 13 2010 +

Introduction a)attn getter: Michael Spector, a longtime writer for the New Yorker visited a chicken 'farm' in 2003 and said that he, "...was almost knocked to the ground by the overpowering smell of feces and ammonia. My eyes burned and so did my luns, and I could neither see nor breathe. There must have been 30,000 chickens sitting silently on the floor [...]they didnt move, didnt cluck [...] they lived in total darkness and they would spend every minute of their six week lives that way." Over 9 billion chickens are raised on factory farms every year in the US, and over 9 billion of these chickens are treated inhumanely and savagely. But chickens arent the only animals to suffer at the hands of insensitive factories-cows and pigs are also subject to disgusting living conditions and paniful deaths. b)thesis: Today i will be talking about the inhumane treatment of animals in America. c)prev...

apr 22 2009 ∞
apr 22 2009 +
  • expert knitter
  • bicycle to the beach
  • learn to play the piano
  • go to italy, spain, india, japan, thailand, cambodia, and anywhere within africa
  • SAVE THE WORLD!

i want to be an expert knitter, bicycle to the beach, learn to play the piano, finish school, go to italy, spain, india, japan, thailand, cambodia, anywhere within africa, live in London, and save the world.

may 15 2010 ∞
may 15 2010 +
  • michael spector quote: Michael Specter, “The Extremist,” The New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2003.
  • 9 billion chickens a year: Wayne Pacelle, “Mercy, Mercy: Chickens Deserve Same Humane End as Pigs and Cattle,” Humane Society of the United States, 2005.
  • windowless sheds 40,000-Associated Press, “Waste Rules May Not Affect Small Farms,” Associated Press Online, 19 Dec. 2002.
  • hens cannot lift a wing: Allison Schiff, “Fowl Call: Treat Egg-Laying Hens Humanely,” Twin-Boro News, 28 Jul. 2004.
  • male chicks: mench and siegel
  • dairy cows seperated from calves-Oliver Sacks, An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales, Vintage Books: New York, 1996.
  • 10 times as much milk as they would naturally-Joyce D’Silva, “Faster, Cheaper,...
apr 22 2009 ∞
apr 22 2009 +
  • geog-dec 14th (1015-1215)
  • ling-dec 17th (8-10)
  • mted-dec 17th (1015-1215)
  • edel-dec 17th online
nov 25 2009 ∞
nov 25 2009 +