Essay #2: Gruen, chapters 3-4

1. Identify some topic from either chapter 3 or 4 on which to compose either

(a) a second 2-3 pp. CRITO-based argumentative essay (following all of the supplied guidelines, just as before) or

(b) a nonstandard essay or presentation in some other mode (video, short story, dialogue, extended poem, etc.).

If you choose option (b), please also supply a brief CRITO outline of your position (choosing (a) or (b), that is, requires adopting some potentially debatable position on chapter 3 or 4 material that requires some kind of defense).

Due: Monday, November 7, in class.

Assignment #3: Experimenting with Animals

Read Gruen, Chapter 4.

Supplemental:

American Anti-vivisection Society:
http://aavs.org/

National Anti-vivisection Society:
https://www.navs.org/who-we-are/mission/#.WpRH4q6nHIU

Cohen:  "The Case for the use of Animals..."

http://animalstudiesrepository.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1001&context=moreaexp

Assignment #2: Eating Animals/Animal Testing

Read: Chapter 3-4, Gruen.

Supplemental: 

1. Alistair Norcross: "Puppies, Pigs, and People: Eating Meat and Marginal Cases"

2. G. Francione, "The Abolitionist Approach"

https://www.abolitionistapproach.com/veganism-moral-imperative/

3. Brief video from Francione:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRnndqucOX0

4. Read, also, this brief article on meat-eating and COVID:

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/04/26/what-we-choose-eat-has-everything-do-pandemic-and-next-one

5. Video (ethics professor from U. of Vermont):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HAMk_ZYO7g

6. Ed Winters, Arguments against Veganism