Meat or Veggie?
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Use this Task Line to collect and organise your notes.
Ask:
Make sure you understand the task. What do you need to do?
Find:
Here are some sites for you. The list is available online at
Look at these and find some of your own by searching search engines with suitable keywords
• The Vegetarian Society of the United Kingdom
• Why Vegan?
(note that the page on Slaughterhouses is deliberately shocking)
• Are Humans Meant to Eat Meat?
• Beef and Liberty!
• People Eating Tasty Animals
• Why I eat Meat
• British Meat
(look at the health and diet pages and how these are presented; note that the slaughter of the animal is not mentioned, whereas in anti-meat sites this is accentuated)
• British Meat Education Service
(includes support documents for a simulation of managing a pork advertising campaign)
Choose:
Which are the most reliable sites? Write them here – and explain why:
Visit the most reliable sites again and …
Do:
Select and choose relevant text carefully from these sources and save it. Make a note of where it comes from.
Answer:
Compile a document and create a presentation containing the main arguments for and against the eating of meat.
For eating meat
Against eating meat
General points
Reflect:
Have you followed all the steps?
Have you collected enough information about the issue?
Have you organised your information into for, against and general?
How might you have done the task more effectively?
If you haven’t done the task effectively, go back and improve it until it is satisfactory
Finally, show your teacher the completed task. Your teacher may decide to show