Blog Assignment 5: Formulating a Response

Chickens Can Help Save Wildlife
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/18/opinion/sunday/how-chickens-can-help-save-wildlife.html

In this article, Richard Conniff, talks about bushmeat in the developing world. In most developing countries, people are hunting for bushmeat and in effect pushing the extinction of 301 mammal species. Whatever these hunters are not hunting may be leaving other large carnivore without food and thus causing a ripple effect of some sort with other wildlife. Conniff talks about chickens being a good alternative for protein in human diet to the bushmeat, suggesting that we do not need to go out hunting. He explains how in different regions and countries it is not promoted since depending on the region or country, the chickens do not grow effectively and they are also at a higher risk for disease. This article ends in hopes that, although chickens alone may not be enough to make a difference in saving wildlife in countries that do not discourage bushmeat sales, that it can be a start.

Eat Plants, Not Animals
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/22/opinion/eat-plants-not-animals.html

In response to Chickens Can Help Save Wildlife, Gene Baur, a reader of The New York Times, suggests an alternative to sustaining human growth by using plant protein versus chickens for protein needed in human diet. Baur, talks about how planting vegetables can produce more for consumption and use up less resources all while helping save wildlife.

My Relationship With Literature

     I used to think that my relationship with Literature was a simple one. Since I was little I've always loved pens and pencils and I loved writing on everything I could put my hands on. Not too much later, as a school aged child, I found out that I actually enjoy reading. It came to me while in elementary school when the book fairs would come and I would end up buying all the latest "Baby-Sitters Club" and "Goosebumps" books and I got through them rather quickly. As I grew up, the type of books that I read became more advanced and sometimes difficult to read but I always loved the challenge! I typically loved the fact that the more I read, the more I learned. One of the things that I picked up from reading was the different styles and types of writings. I've always been particularly more interested in chapter books that tell stories or autobiographies of interesting individuals; from time to time I like to pick up self help books and spiritual guides. With that being said, since I loved literature, school literary assignments tended to be simpler for me. I even enjoyed most of them! That is, until recently when I had to write an annotated bibliography; that is something I had never done before and quite certainly the most different type of writing I've had to do. Still, I love literature, and I will continue to... even though I've realized that I'm not 100% literate.