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.