There are three points in the dialogue that the writer induces me to imagine and follow to.
1) Is the slaughter is immoral? An example is killing a lot of turkeys during Christmas. Similarly, a number of chickens are killed during Chinese New Year in my country. The slaughter is immoral in senses of human. However in this case, they are allowed to do this for living. Some people can kill them to eat and some can deny if they do not want to.
2) A vegetarian style is more popular in new generation. It may be due to increase education to them to realize benefits of vitamin and mineral in vegetables, or at present they may have more alternative foods to choice instead of meats.
3) A psychosocial behavior issue, a difference of thoughts, beliefs, and styles among some groups in a society. That dialogue is an example of this issue between parents and their offspring in a family.
The writer did not conclude the Gemma’s idea and her behavior of being vegetarian in that special time was wrong, although her thought differs from her parent. It is possible the writer will present the 3rd issue for the next 25 pages.
Gemma is a vegetarian because she wants to keep her morality. It does not mean people who are not vegetarian are immoral. However it is not certain that if she knows correctly how to keep balance nutrition for herself. This may be the reason that her parent would be worried and do not encourage her to be a vegetarian. If I were her parent I will clarify what I thought and the reason that I would like to her to keep balance the nutrition. I think if she do not want to do something morally wrong, she would take care herself first without to destroy her heaths.
Sunday 9 November 2008
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As others have already done, one point that you focus on is the need to eat meat to have a balanced diet. Aom, Am and Art all argue that the same point is important.
ReplyDeleteIf research showed that in fact we did not need meat for a healthy and well balanced diet, would that mean it was immoral? If it was just more convenient to eat meat, would that be a strong enough reason to make it morally right?
Do we, in fact, really need meat for a healthy and well balanced diet?
Perhaps I should point out now that I eat meat almost every day, and I do not think I'm doing anything immoral. I don't think it's immoral because ...
The purpose of reading this dialogue by Law is not to persuade you become a vegetarian.
I like your idea that suggested to take varieties of food for keeping nutrient balance. I think this is the easy way which we can take care ourselves to keep healthy. We don’t need to buy any supplementary food. It is too expensive and sometime less nutritious than normal food.
ReplyDeleteBy the way, this is not about the comment but it’s about Gemma. She emphasises about killing animals. Then I wonder, many countries killed a huge amount of chicken because they were H5N1 carriers. Gemma still think this killing is morally wrong?