In Danielle’s paper she provides a sophisticated investigation of the corruption that surrounds the meat industry through and ecocritical lense. I commemorate Danielle on her focus of the topic but presenting fresh and distinct ideas regarding the subject of the meat industry. She does this by exposing in her paper by discussing how the meat industry affects not only the human body but the natural world, which also impacts the human body. It is a different perspective, as well as an important one. From what has been talked about in regards to Ruth ozeki’s My Year of Meats, the discussion of the text often focuses on the carcinogens that the human body is exposed to from eating injected or medicated meat, or the general welfare and treatment …show more content…
I appreciate the mentioning of industrialization in the meat industry and the impact that it has made other than efficiency in distribution. Danielle expresses how the use of technology has ability to hide the lack of ethics involved in slaughtering animals for meat, therefore allowing consumers to not consider morals and ethics when buying produce. This is an aspect of the industry I have yet to consider, which goes along with my compliments on Danielle presenting fresh ideas. This relates to the marketing of meat which is further discussed in the paper as Danielle expands on how major companies encourage consumers to buying their product by marketing it as wholesome, which serves as an example of the major point being made about these large-scale companies concealing truths to their market and buyers. Lastly, something I found crucial to present to readers which Danielle demonstrates in her research is how the meat industry’s careless impact on the environment affects demographics and socio-economic classes differently, which was a wise point to bring up. She explains how people of lower classes are more likely to be affected than those of wealthier