Choosing Sources

When it comes to choosing sources for my research paper, a lot of time and effort goes into the process. I begin by searching through numerous online WSU library resources and then look for relevant titles. After I find something that looks somewhat useful I'll save the URL for later. Numerous hours and URL's later, I go back through all of the sources I deemed worthy and chose the ones that are most useful or informative.

After picking the few that are most helpful, I begin to scan the articles looking for information that pertains directly to my research topic. This is also time consuming. I pull many quotes out of the source and save them into a word document for later use. After I have a sufficient quantity of useful quotes and facts, I began to integrate the quotes and facts into my paper outline.

Now I am ready to start writing my paper. Equipped with ideas, facts and my outline I begin to piece together my paper. Because my thoughts are so organized, this part of the process generally doesn't take very long and isn't as painful as actually finding the sources. In order to improve the process I use for finding sources and writing papers I could procrastinate less. It seems to be my main problem, I wait until the last minute to actually find sources which may make the sources I find not as good as some others if I continued to search.

The Slaughter House

The article I found relates to the slaughter house, inhumane treatments of animals, and what really goes on inside the US meat industry. This will be helpful for paper three because it relates to the ethics of eating meat processed in the United States. The article goes in depth into what is happening. The article is an investigation, and the author successfully went behind the scenes and got the trust of employees to tell the truth. Many of the workers admitted to beating, strangling, and dismembering a myriad of animals.

Although this article has some very good evidence and description of how animals are treated, it may be biased. It is only a website with no naysayer argument. However, the information still could be useful.

"Slaughterhouse:The shocking story of greed, neglect, inhumane treatment inside the US meat industry." Go Vegn. pag. Web. 4 Mar 2010. .

Norman Borlaug Article

In his article, Norman Borlaug discusses the issue of combining biotechnology with food. This is a very controversial issue in that both sides of the issue contain valid points. Supporters of integrating biotechnology into the food system argue that with out the integration of biotechnology, the world will never be able to grow enough food to sustain the ever growing population. They also argue that biotechnology has been very helpful in medical breakthroughs and public health. If biotechnology continues to be successful, it could also be beneficial in the food industry. By using biotechnology, scientists could potentially make fertilizer, seeds, and farming in general more efficient. More efficiency means more food which means less starving children around the globe.

On the other side of the argument are people who believe food should not be genetically tampered with. They also have valid points. By changing the make up of our food, we no longer know how it could potentially affect our bodies. Biotechnology could potentially kill us in the long run. There is just something about eating natural food that sounds more appetizing than eating "franken-food". Regardless of what these firm believers in natural foods do, the future of food most likely will become integrated with biotechnology. It is in our future, but shouldn't it be your own volition to decide what to eat anyways?