unit 1 animals and their rights 閱讀教程 第四冊(cè).ppt

1、galesaur glis: 龍貓,hamster hmst n. 倉(cāng)鼠,Pre-reading-Discussion Reflect on your childhood experience, did you keep pets? How would you feel if your pet was killed for meat?,How is meat treated in English and Chinese cultures?,In Chinese culture,In English culture,Fish are served with the heads on and ch

2、ickens with their feet.,Meat is never served with identifiable animal parts. The heads, feet and fins are chopped off.,Meat from various meat is called “animal + meat” (雞肉，牛肉 etc.),Meat is not called by the name of animals except for chicken and fish (cf. beef from cows, pork from pigs, lamb from sh

3、eep),People like animals sold alive in order to make sure that meat is fresh.,People dont generally sell animals alive, and meat is sold already packaged.,People often dont realize that the meat they eat every day is actually dead versions of the animals they love so much.,There would be nothing lef

4、t of human society if we treated animals not as property but as independent holders of rights Would bacteria have rights? bacteria bktiri n.(復(fù)數(shù))細(xì)菌,If we should give animal rights and could no longer do as we wished with animals, we may have no pets, no circus, no meat, no milk, no cheese, no horses,

5、 no dogs, cats or fish around the house. What would happen if bacteria were given rights?,There is simply no “defect” that humans and animals dont share, in contrast to human infants and the mentally retarded, who have very limited intelligence. Since the retarded have the same rights as people who

6、arent retarded, it is nothing but “speciesism” to deny animals their rights. mentally retarded 智能發(fā)育遲緩的 speciesism n. 物種歧視,Human infants and mentally disadvantaged people have the same limited intelligence as animals. If infants and the mentally retarded can enjoy the same rights as the average peopl

7、e, why should we refuse to give animals their rights? It is obviously “speciesism” if we dont.,The animals liberation movement is not saying that all lives are of equal worth or that all interests of humans and other animals are to be given equal weight, no matter what those interests might be. It i

8、s saying that where animals and human have similar interests avoiding pain and enjoying pleasure. those interests are to be counted equally, with no automatic discount just because one of the beings is not human.,The animal liberation movement is not saying that all lives have equal values or we sho

9、uld pay attention to all interests of humans and other animals equally whatever those interests might be. It emphasizes that since animals and humans alike share interests such as avoiding pain and enjoying pleasure, their interests are equally important in relationships between species. They cant a

10、utomatically become less important because the interests come from a non-human beings.,Animals and Their Rights Reading One Animal Liberation,Unit 1,Background Information,What is the Book Animal Liberation about?,Animal Liberation is a book by Australian philosopher Peter Singer, published in 1975.

11、 Singer himself rejected the use of the theoretical framework of rights when it comes to human and nonhuman animals: he argued that the interests of animals should be considered because of their ability to feel suffering and that the idea of rights was not necessary in order to consider them.,Backgr

12、ound Information,What are Ladybird Books？,Ladybirds Books is a London-based publishing company. The Ladybird imprint publishes mass-market childrens books.,Background Information,Understanding Factory Farming,Factory farming is the modern practice of raising animals for food in extreme confinement,

13、in order to maximize profits. In addition to intense confinement, abuses usually associated with factory farming include massive doses of hormones and antibiotics, battery cages, debeaking, and tail docking. The animals spend their entire lives in these miserable conditions until they are slaughtere

14、d. Their suffering is unimaginable.,What is Factory Farming?,Reading One,Decide whether each of them is true or false.,_ 1. Many children want to eat meat because they understand meat is good for health. _ 2. When we start eating meat in our childhood, we understand that we are eating the dead body

15、of an animal. _ 3. According to the author, we eat meat both because its a habit and because other people in our community are doing the same. _ 4. In our childhood, the choice between whether to eat meat or to love animals gives us trouble.,F,F,T,F,Reading One,Decide whether each of them is true or

16、 false.,_ 5. The theme of the nursery rhythm quote in the text is “Killing bad animals.” _ 6. In the text, dogs and cats are described as animals that children do not eat. _ 7. In the popular book Farm Animals, the animals seem to live a free and happy life. _ 8. It is suggested that in childrens st

17、ories, we should depict animals as independent beings.,F,T,T,T,Reading One Check your comprehension,Answer the following questions with the information from the text.,What is the contradiction in animal education mentioned in the text?,On the one hand, our society encourages children to be affection

18、ate towards animals, on the other hand, children are “pushed” by their parents to eat meat the dead body of an animal.,In the text, the author quotes a nursery rhythm. Whats the theme of the nursery rhythm?,The nursery rhyme has the theme of cruelty towards animals mice, in this case.,Reading One Ch

19、eck your comprehension,Answer the following questions with the information from the text.,How are the animals described in the book Farm Animals and The Farm? What kind of false impression does that kind of description leave on children who read them?,What is the authors attitude towards eating meat

20、? What expressions in the text indicate his attitude?,Animals in these two books are depicted as “happy”, “carefree”, and “good-for-nothing” creatures. This description leaves children the false impression that animals live simple and happy until they die.,He doesnt seem to think that eating meat is

21、 a wise choice. This can be seen from his disapproval of parents forcing their children to eat meat.,Reading One,Match the words on the right with that on the left.,strenuous segregated disrupt gruesome ingenious squeal alter initial cute unified,change separated shriek effortful unpleasant lovely s

22、poil talented first common same conform decline shocked,Reading One Check your vocabulary,Paraphrase the following sentences with a special focus on the italicized parts.,Many children at first refuse to eat animal flesh, and only become accustomed to it after strenuous efforts by their parents.,Man

23、y children at first refuse to eat animal flesh. They later become used to eating it just because their parents try hard to persuade them to eat it.,Reading One Check your vocabulary,Paraphrase the following sentences with a special focus on the italicized parts.,There is not one unified attitude to

24、animals, but two conflicting attitudes that coexisted in one individual, carefully segregated so that the inherent contradiction between them rarely causes trouble.,There are two different and conflicting attitudes towards animals; they are carefully separated so that the existing and essential cont

25、radiction between the two hardly causes trouble.,Reading One Check your vocabulary,Paraphrase the following sentences with a special focus on the italicized parts.,When farm animals are mentioned in picture books and stories, however, evasion may before a deliberate attempt to mislead the child about the nature of modern farms, and so screen him from reality.,Picture books and stories deliberately avoid presenting the real situation in our modern farms. Children, therefore, are kept from seeing the reality.,Reading One