Paper Outline Assignment

SOURCES AND OUTLINE FOR ANIMAL RIGHTS/ENVIRONMENT ESSAY
www.ivu.org/animals/

Peter Singer essay: "All Animals are Equal"
Michael allen fox essay: "The Moral Status of Animals"

http://vegetarian.about.com/od/vegetarianvegan101/f/fossilfuels.htm

http://vegetarian.about.com/od/vegetarianvegan101/f/forestclearcut.htm

http://vegetarian.about.com/od/vegetarianvegan101/f/waterpollution.htm

http://vegetarian.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?zi=1/XJ&sdn=vegetarian&cdn=food&tm=10&gps=255_87_1276_520&f=00&tt=12&bt=0&bts=1&zu=http%3A//goveg.com/veganism_environment.asp



Proposal Outline:

Introduction: Briefly introduce the main points of your proposal. This introduction should introduce:
What you are investigating: whether or not animal’s rights is a legitimate reason to stop eating meat and how the meat industry negatively affects the environment.
Why this issue is a problem. This issue is a problem because animals are moral agents and deserve to not be tortured and killed and the environment affects humans health and quality of life as well as future generations.
What community your problem affects the most and why. I have no idea what this question is asking, perhaps because of the way the grammar is arranged.
1) Identify a Focus:
Identify and describe all aspects of your issue.
State your research question : do animals have rights to not be slaughtered? How does slaughtering animals effect the environment?
Define the issue the question represent: Animal Rights, The Environment.
Explore the history and context of the issue.
What is the issue within this community? Whether when we grow older if we will have enough resources to live valuable lives.
When and why did this become an issue within this community? When people started realizing that nonrenewable resources will eventually be gone and what will happen once they are?
How does it resemble other issues both in other communities? Meat consumption and the environment is an issue all over the world. Some countries have more concern and awareness of it than others.
What are some illustrations that show that this is an issue? What are some of the possible solutions that have been proposed in the past? Some propositions have been Hybrid Cars, ways to “Go Green”, ending animal suffering, etc.
2) The Research Process: Succinctly set out the important facts which you have found out about your project. This should be a brief summary that only includes the facts that are relevant to the issue and which bear on your final solution to your problem.
What research have you collect so far? What are some of the limitations of your research? What are some connections? What needs more evidence? What do you find interesting? So far I have researched how animals are abused in slaughter, some philosopher’s opinions if animals have rights or not, how meat consumption affects the environment, etc. What needs more evidence is if certain environmental issues such as global warming are legitimate or not because there is evidence that goes both ways. I found it interesting that becoming vegetarian/vegan is better for the environment than buying a hybrid car.
Based on what you have read, what have you observed as overall continuing threads in this research? What are the patterns? What conclusions can you make about the research you have collected? The patterns are that people who support animal rights are normally environmentalists as well. I never realized how much being vegetarian positively affected the environment.
3) Viewpoints: Over all the conflicting viewpoints on an issue, you should address only the most important of these conflicting viewpoints. Try to distinguish or reconcile the viewpoints and explain why you think that people should following your line of reasoning over another.
Discuss the range of viewpoints/differing perspectives from your field research Some believe animals don’t have rights so there is nothing wrong with torturing and killing them for consumption.
Identify their claims, their evidence, and their assumptions, and their supporting audience/communities I do this through Analysis of the Philosopher Michael Allen Fox’s essay “The Moral Status of Animals” in my essay.
Who are the audiences/communities who support each of these positions?
The audience of people who support animal slaughter and destruction of the environment are people who are not educated on these issues or just simply don’t care because animal torture does not affect them and the destruction of the environment wont take full effect in their own lifetime.
What assumptions do they make about the issue? They assume that these environmental issues are made up or dramatized by the media and that animals do not feel pain.
4) Defend/Purpose: Try to reach a conclusion (one way or the other), both on what the facts of your topic is and what the answer of the overall question. People prefer to have a clear answer in a proposal rather than a wishy-washy discussion that does not come to a strong conclusion. Trust your judgment and be sure that your other sections fully supports your solution/conclusion.
Describe a possible solution(s) to this problem My solution is that everyone lower their meat consumption to 1 meal a day. Eventually, people will probably want to become full vegetarians but there is no requirement to do so.
Defend the solution among the critical viewpoints. You can still eat a meat dish once a day, it is not depriving anyone of anything but would greatly help the environment and the wellbeing of animals.
Why should people take this course of action? Why is this problem worthy of further investigation? I propose they should take this action with the utilitarian argument: sacrificing one to two meals of meat a day is far less difficult than slaughtering innocent animals and destroying our natural resources.