HORSE EATING

Communications 367
June 21, 2011
Paper 1: Topic Ideas
1. (Re)Introduce horse meat into US society
a. Slaughterhouses to be established
b. Public stigma adjustment: more people have/had intimate relationships with cats and dogs than horses; the public’s negative affect towards Asian practices of eating cats and dogs has appeared to have decreased (to me)
c. Many wild horses out west being round up at the expense of public
d. Delicacy or shelter food? (economic possibilities)
e. Historical/geographical examples of human consumption
2. Encourage children to distinguish and nurture 3 identities: a self, an other, and a public self
a. I’d like to develop this mentality from a young age, as to remove (existential/philosophical) complications
b. “Fronting” to be a positive, genuine, compliant term
c. The “other” to be an external influence recognized and consulted as memories distinguishable from the individual’s own self, meant to connote/contradict
d. Self-esteem promotion is a major objective of this.
e. Emotional component/personal passion: My little sister (age 15) committed suicide May 11, 2011 after an intense struggle to “find herself”. She was deliberately persuaded to self-mutilate, speak ill of others, and do other self-destructive things BY HER PEERS. She was intelligent but unaware of the distinction between keeping her true beliefs alive despite outward projections of her being.
3. Dumpster diving: attempt to decrease public’s negative affect
a. Food waste issue/ disease awareness
b. Environmentalists/recyclers/homeless benefits and participation
c. Restaurant waste cleanliness/dumpster maintenance and segregation
d. Freegan thought