As you respond to the following prompts, support your argument with references to at least three of the sources in this Conversation on Sustainable Eating. For help using sources, see Chapter 4.
Write a letter about sustainable eating to your local school board regarding the food offered in school cafeterias. Consider the factors that the board should consider before making dietary decisions for students.
Chapter 12 - Entering the Conversation: Write a letter about sustainable eating to your local school board regarding the food offered in school cafeterias. Consider the factors that the board should consider before making dietary decisions for students.
Each of the writers in this Conversation is a contemporary, living writer. Write a letter addressed to one of them in which you defend, challenge, or qualify his or her position regarding sustainable eating. Refer to three of the other sources to support your position.
Chapter 12 - Entering the Conversation: Each of the writers in this Conversation is a contemporary, living writer. Write a letter addressed to one of them in which you defend, challenge, or qualify his or her position regarding sustainable eating. Refer to three of the other sources to support your position.
Imagine that your school’s environmental club wants to place posters of animals in a factory farm in the hallways of the elementary, middle, and high schools in your district. Compose a speech that you would deliver to your school board in order to defend or challenge that practice. Refer to three of the sources in the Conversation to support your position.
Chapter 12 - Entering the Conversation: Imagine that your school’s environmental club wants to place posters of animals in a factory farm in the hallways of the elementary, middle, and high schools in your district. Compose a speech that you would deliver to your school board in order to defend or challenge that practice. Refer to three of the sources in the Conversation to support your position.
Go back to E. O. Wilson’s essay from The Future of Life (p. 945). Following his lead, write two opposing arguments in which you stereotype the extreme positions that might be taken by vegetarians and carnivores regarding sustainable eating.
Chapter 12 - Entering the Conversation: Go back to E. O. Wilson’s essay from The Future of Life (p. 945). Following his lead, write two opposing arguments in which you stereotype the extreme positions that might be taken by vegetarians and carnivores regarding sustainable eating.
Imagine that there is a grassroots campaign developing that wants Congress to legislate against in-vitro meat production. Write an editorial for your school newspaper that supports or challenges this proposed ban. Refer to three of the sources in the Conversation as you support your argument.
Chapter 12 - Entering the Conversation: Imagine that there is a grassroots campaign developing that wants Congress to legislate against in-vitro meat production. Write an editorial for your school newspaper that supports or challenges this proposed ban. Refer to three of the sources in the Conversation as you support your argument.
Imagine that the largest employer in your town is what many of these writers would call a “factory farm.” In the voice of the owner of the farm, write a defense of your business, addressed to one of the writers in the Conversation. Refer to three of the other sources in your letter.
Chapter 12 - Entering the Conversation: Imagine that the largest employer in your town is what many of these writers would call a “factory farm.” In the voice of the owner of the farm, write a defense of your business, addressed to one of the writers in the Conversation. Refer to three of the other sources in your letter.