family discussion

For the discussion post I talked to my dad about food inc.

-What struck you?
Me: that there are some factories who abuse their animals to make cheap meat while there are some farms who humanely treat their animals even though they don't make as much money.
-Do you agree with this or disagree? Why?
Me: I agree with this because it's less selfish and it's better for us.
Dad: I think it's better for animals but harder to feed people and not practical for the way we consume things.
-How can you apply this to the real world?
Dad: I would prefer humanely killed meat more than cheap meat, but it's hard to know what type of meat you are eating
-What do you think?
Dad: We're not thinking about the animals we're about humans and they need to mass-produce to provide for human demand.

School daze dialectic journal

Quote: “people imagine that they’d like to see their children enter the workplace with really useful business skills but if they actually did so they’d immediately begin competing for jobs with their older siblings and parents, which would be catastrophic.”

Response: Something that strikes me about this passage is that Ishmael seems to really understand how schools work and also how jobs work just from watching. Even though Ishmael probable hasn’t had a human job before and he can see the way schools try to keep kids so they don’t enter the job market just by watching a little girl in school. I sort of agree with the author on this quote because why would you want to hire a kid when you can hire an adult with more life experience. Also because it seems very accurate of how people don’t have many jobs in this economy and population.