'30 days' is a TV program that broadcasts thirty days of life experiences with special conditions such as a straight guy living in gay village or a normal citizen working in a coal mine. It shows how some ordinary people go through these special experiences and what they learn from them. They learn some important lessons on various issues; especially, viewers can often learn about minority's perspectives on controversial matters in this society.
My '30 days' program is 'thirty days without eating Meat'. Of course, in this society, some people do not eat meat at all. These vegetarians refuse to eat meat, because they believe eating meat is to go against animal's rights and dignity. They also believe eating only vegetables is much healthier than eating meat. But for majority of this society, it is very common to eat meat. Since we eat so many hamburgers, steaks, pizzas, and chickens in our daily lives, it would be so painful and disastrous for us to abandon eating meat.
My scenario of 'thirty days without eating meat' is this: firstly, I'll choose one person randomly. I'll will let him live with vegetarian for a month, so that he can copy the vegetarian's daily diet menu. For the starter, it would be very challenging not to eat meat at all. He will suffer from kind of withdrawal symptoms, as many people usually do when they quit smoking.
Then I'll let him visit Meat production company and show the exact process of how meats are produced. In the animal slaughtering process, cows, pigs, sheep, and chicken are slaughtered in very cruel and disgusting methods. Perhaps he will obtain a strong motivation to quit eating meat after watching the horrific scenes and thinking about animal's rights and dignity.
My purpose of the program is to let people know the cruelty of animal-slaughtering process and think about animal's rights. I also want to let people think about vegetarian's life and daily diet as well. I think it would be very good to eat only vegetables, if they can tolerate. It can be a much better diet plan for many people, especially who are suffering from obesity.
Motions:
1) TH would not eat meat
2) TH would ban animal-slaughtering process
3) THBT 30 days program is a good education program for teenagers
Excellent post in every regard. I like those motions, especially the first one - a values debate that isn't as cut and dry. Good.
답글삭제I've actually done this experiment with my wife. We kept it up for three months. We were inspired by two documentaries "Earthlings" - which you can find on my debate blog - and "Food Inc."
It actually wasn't hard to stop eating meat. We still ate fish and mushrooms can be made to taste like meat. When we came back to Korea, we gave up and started eating meat again (BBQ is hard to resist).
Good post! Nice pics.