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

Looking Into My Topic

As I continue to look further into my topic I am starting to branch off from my main point. My main point is the cruelty that goes on in the fast food industry so  am naturally branching off into animal safety, more specifically legislation and activism. So one thing that  need to know what actual legislation is already in place. Online I found a law journal library that contains all of the legislation that is passed about anything. As I looked through I found one on animal rights and what has been passed in regards to that.The next thing that I have to look at is who the activists are. The biggest one i could find on the web was of course PETA. PETA has done many things in regards to animal rights and has by far the biggest following.

http://www.peta.org/ That is the link to their website (non scholarly) where they post articles regarding what they are doing with animal rights and people/organizations that abuse animals.

Source Link: http://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?handle=hein.journals/anim2&div=16&g_sent=1&collection=journals#205

Finding Sources

It would seem that the only logical next step for this paper is to actually start to research and accumulate sources. The first source that I found was a book that contains a lot of information pertaining to the things that the fast food industry doesn't want us to know about. This book is called Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side Behind The All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser. This is a perfect source for me because it is a very similar topic to mine. The parts of this book that are most useful to me are chapter 6, On The Range, and chapter 9, called what's in the meat. These chapter expose the practices that they use to get the meat. I plan to use this to build my argument by trying to build on how unethical it is. Although those chapters are going to be the most useful, still I am going to have use for the rest of the book. The book gives me all of the background information that I need on the fast food industries food making process. 

Source Link: http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=dU13X_AM_N8C&oi=fnd&pg=PP2&dq=animal+cruelty+fast+food+industry&ots=DmVhVR_mLp&sig=vU6S4Kr_-IIBxWDQhQgUqGXlpsg#v=onepage&q=animal%20cruelty%20fast%20food%20industry&f=false