Laura Fraser,

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Laura Fraser, Why I Stopped Being a Vegetarian
(687-691)

• Why did Laura Fraser stop being a
  pesco-ovo-lacto vegetarian (687)? Where is
  this thesis statement located in her essay?
• ? As a vegetarian, not only had I denied myself
  something I truly enjoyed, I had been
  anti-social (690)
• Why did she become a vegetarian in the first
  place? What are her rationales, and how does she
  present them?
• What is the relationship that Fraser posits
  between vegetarianism and lesbianism?
• How does the cartoon on 689 relate to this essay?
• What is Frasers tone throughout this piece? Is
  it similar to or different from the tones of the
  other articles in Casebook Vegetarianism? Is
  Frasers choice of tone effective or ineffective?

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Michael Pollan, An Animals Place (692-703)

• What kinds of evidence does Pollan offer in the
  essays first seven paragraphs?
• What is Pollans thesis?
• at the same time many people seem eager to
  extend the circle of our moral consideration to
  animals, in our factory farms and laboratories we
  are inflicting more suffering on more animals
  than at any time in history (693)
• What key words does Pollan repeat throughout his
  essay?
• What is a CAFO?
• What other forms of evidence does Pollan use to
  support his point? How effective or ineffective
  is this evidence?
• How do the photographs on 696 and 697 relate to
  Pollans argument?
• What does Pollan mean when he claims that More
  than any other institution, the American
  industrial farm offers a nightmarish glimpse of
  what capitalism can look like in the absence of
  moral or regulatory constraint (699)?
• Does Pollan endorse vegetarianism? How does he
  feel about it?
• What is Polyface Farm? Why does Pollan discuss
  it in his essay?

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