The Main Idea In Shooting An Elephant, The Case For Animal Rights

In “The Case for Animal Rights” Tom Reagan argues that seeing animals as resources created for human use rather than beings is fundamentally wrong regardless of how you decide to justify it. (value). In “An Animal’s place” Michael Pollan argues that the brutalization animals endure in farms should be humanized in a way that should not cause them suffering. (policy). In the “Utopian Dream: A New Farm Bill” Marion Nestle argues that the farm bill should be modified to benefit everyone rather that just favoring interest groups. (policy). In “What A Farm to table Got Wrong” Dan Barber argues that food to table doesn’t actually contribute to the reshaping of diets of people and landscapes but rather what contributes is the way that food is grown and how we as humans help farmers(value). In “Shooting an Elephant” George Orwell argues that imperialism is detrimental to all parties involved(value).

A rebuttal used to argue against the claim “In the Case for Animal Rights” is that animals were made to serves us as it’s the “natural order” and using them gives us more advantages. In “An Animals Place” a rebuttal used is that animals feel no pain and if they do it doesn’t compare to the pain people feel which justifies the brutality they endure because they are beings that lack intellectual capacities. A rebuttal that argues against the claim in the “Utopian Dream: A New Farm Bill is that the current bill offers consumers low prices available and a surplus of food. In “What A Farm to Table got Wrong” the rebuttal is that people don’t have to necessarily buy things they don’t need/want to help farmers produce and sustain healthy crops. In “Shooting an Elephant” a rebuttal is that imperialism isn’t actually bad if people exercise their power by using morality.

To support the idea that imperialism is bad George Orwell uses feeling obligated to shoot an elephant to gain acceptance as an example,” and it was at that moment, as I stood there with the riffle in my hands, that I first grasped the hollowness, the futility, of the white man’s dominion in the east. Here I was the white man with his gun, standing in front of the unarmed native crowd”. Moreover, in “An Animal’s Place” Michael Pollen denotes the hardships animals face in Confined Animal Corporations 'sick pigs, being underperforming “performing units” are clubbed to death on the spot.” Animals are dehumanized to an extreme that if they no longer are beneficial for human needs, they get killed.

The warrant expressed in George Orwell is that when people the authority they have in imperialism they are more subjected to be oppressors. In the case for ' An Animal's Place' the warrant is that animals go through dehumanizing processes in farms even though their are beings with feelings that can feel pain just like humans.

Two qualifiers from “The Case for Animal Rights” by Tom Reagan are “some there are who resist the idea that animals have no inherent value” by lacking inherent value animals only have value to humans instead of having value they possess on their own. Moreover, Tom Reagan also denotes” perhaps some people will say that animals have some inherent value, only less than we have”. By possessing less inherent value than people their mistreatment is justified as they are not beings with rationale or intellectuality.

The most persuasive external evidence Dan Barber uses in,” What Farm-to-Table got wrong” is his personal experience going to Lakeview Organic, a farm that operates on rotation to produce the best tasting products. Barber uses this to portray just how difficult the process farmers go through to provide good products for consumers who only choose certain vegetables and the rest are left to be used for other non-profitable purposes that harm a farmer's income,” in general Klass earned pennies on the dollar compared with what he’d make his crops for human consumption”. Moreover, the most persuasive external evidence that Marion Nestle uses in “Utopian Dream: A New Farm Bill” is that the current farm bill is contributing to the increase in obesity,” the farm bill encourages weight gain by subsidizing commodity crops that constitute the basic cheap caloric ingredients in processed food”.

“In the Case for Animal Rights”. Regan uses his career tittle as a Philosopher to study the morality people use to justify their inhumane treatment of animals. As a philosopher Regan is able to announce the best philosophical theory, he believes guarantees animals rights which gives credibility to his believes. (Logos) “An Animal’s Place”. Pollan uses certain examples that demonstrate how animals are dehumanized in farms to evoke disgust out of the reader. (Logos) “Utopian Dream: New Farm Bill”. Marion Nestle uses factual evidence to demonstrate how the current farm bill is failing to work properly. (Pathos)” What Farm-to-Table Got Wrong”. Dan Barber uses his personal experience of going to a farm to evoke pity for farmers and to get people to want to contribute to the overall food production process. (Pathos) “Shooting an Elephant”. George Orwell uses his experience as a police officer to demonstrate how his authority makes him do things in the name of acceptance which is the same way the imperialism works. People with authority oppress those without it.