Moralization Of Eating

Why is it okay to eat a cow but not a dog in American culture? American culture is often centered around food. In the spectrum of food, they think there are specific ways to eat. There is a healthy and unhealthy way of eating. There is what should be eaten and should not be eaten. In Mary Maxfield's "Food as Thought: Resisting the Moralization of Eating" and Jonathan Safran Foer's "Let Them Eat Dog: A Modest Proposal for Throwing Fido in the Oven” they assert their major claims to the moralization of eating. In the article "Food as Thought: Resisting the Moralization of Eating" published in 2011 in They Say They I Say with Readings by Mary Maxfield, the graduate student from Fontbonne University asserts that everyone’s body is different

The article summarizes that Americans remain accepting of what is the correct way to eat thinking that eating less or in a specific way is being healthy. The basis to eating healthy are not the sum of food but the standard of nourishment that humans put in their body. Trusting the body's requirements though is questionable; this implies that our minds do not tell us what we require, it tells us what we desire. Since eating is not moral or immoral our bodies are to be kept healthy with nutritious nourishment, but instead, we go for what our minds crave. In the article "Let Them Eat Dog: A Modest Proposal for Throwing Fido in the Oven" published in 2009 in The Wall Street Journal by Jonathan Safran Foer, the best selling author argues that society should change its mentality of caring and regarding not a select few creatures, but all creatures, particularly those who are brought up in an industrial habitat without compassion predetermined for the slaughterhouse. The article summarizes that animals are equal, but there are those that are treated more equally. It goes into

Her purpose continued to inform that there is no scientific way to eat; Americans’ weight can not be calculated based on only a few factors. The body has its needs, but those needs are hardly fulfilled because of the moralization of eating. Given where "Food as Thought: Resisting the Moralization of Eating" was published, the article was intended for an audience of college students. Foer’s purpose uses satire to inform how dogs and other animals Americans eat are very similar; His purpose continued to inform the reader that animals that are chosen as companions and food differ among cultures, but one animal is not superior to another. Given where "Let Them Eat Dog: A Modest Proposal for Throwing Fido in the Oven" was published, the intended audience is college graduates with an above average salary. (“The demographics behind Wall Street Journal readers”). Correspondingly, the purpose of both articles is driven by the context of the