animal abuse = human abuse

Recently I have found a new source, "Enacting and Enforcing Felony Animal Cruelty Laws to Prevent Violence Against Humans" by Joseph G. Sauder. In this book Joseph wrote "Children who witness abuse are more likely to abuse animals and eventually humans; even minor acts of animal abuse are signs of a disturbed individual and should be taken seriously." I enjoy this quote a lot because it sums up most of his writing in one sentence. The way that he organized his article is by drawing a correlation between two things in order to prove his point. He made the correlation between animal abuse and abuse in general cause abuse in humans. This is such a good correlation because not everyone cares about animals, but it is safe to say that everyone cares about humans. I plan on using this in my essay by saying that animal abuse leads to human abuse, therefore new laws need to be put in place in order to prevent further violence against humans. Joseph states a law that states “Every person who shall maliciously kill, maim or wound any horse, ox or other cattle, or any sheep, belonging to another, or shall maliciously and cruelly beat or torture any such animals, whether belonging to himself or another, shall upon conviction, be adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor.”

Source Link: http://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/anim6&div=5&id=&page=

Changing sources

Since my last blog post I have been starting to realize that a lot of my sources really don't help me out too much for my essay. My last sources were very general and none of them really took any sort of stand that had to do with my topic. The new criteria that I had while finding new sources is that the scholarly source has to offer a new opinion or view on what changes should be made the laws on animal cruelty. What I am going to do in my essay with these sources is use all of their ideas and group them together with my own ideas and create a new original idea. One of my new sources is called Animal Cruelty Legislation: The Pasado Law and it’s Legacy by Steve Ann Chambers.

This source is very unique because it comes from the perspective of a lawyer and he looks at it differently than other people would. Because of this he says that animals cant speak therefore they cannot express their opinions. “As lawyers, we see many egregious injuries suffered by animals who have no voice or place in our system of law. We think that it is fundamentally unjust, and it is this flaw in the law that fuels the Animal Legal Defense Fund’s (ALDF) mission to expand the law to include the interest of animals.”
  Source link: http://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?handle=hein.journals/anim2&div=16&g_sent=1&collection=journals#205

Literature Review

Recently we were assigned a paper in which we had to write a literature review for our research paper. On my first attempt at writing this essay I found it to be a very daunting and hard essay to write. I couldn't figure out the point of the assignment or even how to write the essay so for the first draft I found the essay to be very unhelpful. After I submitted it though I did get a lot of comments back from my teacher on how I could improve my essay and how to make it actually accomplish the task that its supposed to. One of the biggest misconceptions that I had with this paper was that I was under the impression that I was supposed to talk about my essay topic with my sources. Now i know that it is supposed to be a paper that puts all of your sources into discussion with each other to strengthen your arguments while getting better associated with your sources. Another thing that I realized after i got my essay back is that most of my scholarly sources weren't actually scholarly. Therefore I am going to have to do some more research. One new source that I found is called "Animal Welfare Reform and the Magic Bullet: The Use and Abuse of Subtherapuetic Doses of Antibiotics in Livestock" by Barbra O'Brian. In this article Barbra is saying Americans do care about animal cruelty, but just not the type that they don’t see happening. A family would care if somebody beat their pet dog but turn a blind eye to animal cruelty that goes on factories for the most part because they don’t see it happening. She is trying to say that the fast food industry is doing a good job keeping their bad practices hidden from public view. Yes I do know that the color is strange, I tried to fix it and this is the best I could do.


Source Link: http://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?handle=hein.journals/ucollr67&div=22&g_sent=1&collection=journals#431

New Sources

Recently I found a few good sources that would really help my topic while I was researching. The book is called The Relationship Between Food Prices And Animal Welfare by A.C. Appleby.
In his book he writes about how people have been spending less and less proportions of their money to purchase food. This trend is one that people would expect to continue and food makers would accommodate too. The food producers are sacrificing the rights of the animals to keep the food prices going on their downward slope. Appleby then tried to combat this problem by providing us with a creative but almost unrealistic solution. His solution is that we should keep food prices at a steady price (of course while regarding the economy) and then we could not be so cruel to the animals. This is another view on my thesis and it offers me another perspective to strengthen my question.
Another source that I figured out that I could use. This is the documentary called super size me. I realized I could use this because humans are considered animals and therefore when the fast food industry feeds us unhealthy foods. Their food hurts the health of the person who is eating it, therefore they are committing animal cruelty in other ways than people realize.

Source Link: http://www.animal-science.org/content/83/13_suppl/E9.short

More Changing

Recently, I have come to the conclusion that my thesis even though i have made revisions still needed some work. It was still too general and would have set me up to write a "information dump" essay, which is not the point of the essay. Therefore I changed it to "what legislative, health/safety, and corporate changes should be made to the fast food industry as a result of their neglect to cater to animal rights." I feel that this thesis give my essay some direction and now it will actually have a point if I can properly write it. I do know that this is still not a perfect thesis and I do want it to be better, but I am having trouble improving on it. I would be very thankful if I could get feedback from my peers, giving me some new ideas or suggestions, to ultimately improve my thesis, so I can write the best essay possible. Thanks everyone