Teacher Toolbox: Eating Animals

This year's Keynote Address by Jonathan Safran Foer: http://kbvideo.kingsborough.edu/embed/165/

This year's Plenary on Eating Meat Ethically & Sustainably w/ Andrew Tarlow, Mike Fadem & Farin Kautz: http://kbvideo.kingsborough.edu/embed/166/

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~Teaching Materials & Readings: Whole Curricula~

Prof. Mara Gittleman: An entire set of teaching materials for use with Eating Animals and/or the KCC Urban Farm is available at this link:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/z8lgcx3ygjvjgjc/6IEm9wWo5x

Mara recommends some important, recent articles, too: http://www.sfgate.com/health/article/Report-links-antibiotics-at-farms-to-human-deaths- 4819492.php http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/07/24/205124705/nyc-doctors-are-now-prescribing- fruits-and-veggies?utm_medium=Email&utm_source=share&utm_campaign=

Profs Gene McQuillan, John Yi & Amy Washburn: Materials designed for classes focused on reading skills (Eng 92, Eng R) but useful in any class in which students are reading Eating Animals:

http://kccwikireads.pbworks.com/w/page/70153134/Eating%20Animals%20%28click%29

~Teaching Materials & Readings: Individual Teachers & Classes~

Prof. Eleanor Bader recently published the following article on the role of women in sustainable and organic agriculture:

http://truth-out.org/news/item/20047-women-lead-the-way-in-sustainable-and-organic- agriculture

Prof. Nicole Beveridge: Supplementary readings to use with Eating Animals:

"America's Food Crisis and How to Fix It": http://www.nimanranch.com/Files/Times%20Article%20August%2020%2009.pdf The Humane Society's Video Library on Factory Farming: http://video.humanesociety.org/index.php?id=PLFF7DE1D5DD17F6CE

And the following additional articles, which Nicole is using in her Eng 24 class: http://www.apa.org/monitor/jan04/blame.aspx http://hive.slate.com/hive/time-to-trim/stop-being-afraid-of-the-food-industry http://hive.slate.com/hive/time-to-trim/push-play-instead-of-push-ups http://articles.latimes.com/print/2004/aug/10/science/sci-guidelines10

Prof. Liza Bruna: Teaching materials on Eating Animals for developmental composition courses: In-class writing 1: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BzFKnUy0tlbvY3pXdWlKY080WDg/edit?usp=sharing In-class writing 2: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BzFKnUy0tlbveEVTQ0Q2ZkwwSEU/edit?usp=sharing In-class writing 3: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BzFKnUy0tlbvN3BKa01SUTR4LW8/edit?usp=sharing Essay Topics: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BzFKnUy0tlbvTjdBSnJEY0xOS1k/edit?usp=sharing Summary of point of view for essay: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BzFKnUy0tlbvbVpVT0RnSXU5eEE/edit?usp=sharing Practice ACT Chp. 1: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BzFKnUy0tlbvc1lKdXpHT083Zjg/edit?usp=sharing Practice ACT Chp. 2: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BzFKnUy0tlbvTGpXcVlBci0wUzg/edit?usp=sharing Quiz on Chp 5, "Life and Death of a Bird": https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzFKnUy0tlbvd3N2Y0ZhTUZfUU0/edit?usp=sharing

Prof. Robert Cowan: Syllabus for "Feast or Famine" course using Eating Animals:

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BzFKnUy0tlbvc0huTEhxbWVLMDA/edit?usp=sharing

Prof. Maureen Fadem: Syllabus and Course Packet (TOC): a curriculum for teaching Eating Animals in developmental composition:

Syllabus: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzFKnUy0tlbvSDZCTEw3R0hLZlU/edit?usp=sharing Course Packet: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzFKnUy0tlbvQldUOW5MZWJFTFk/edit?usp=sharing

Maureen's Video Playlist on Eating Animals: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLW83CZKEAnMEnv1lTAC8T5wwkC9RhCxgo

And, Maureen recommends the following additional companion readings: an interesting development: "Chipotle Cups Will Now Feature Stories by Jonathan Safran Foer, Toni Morrison, and Other Authors" http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2014/05/chipotle-cups-will-now-have-stories-by- jonathan-safran-foer-toni-morrison-and-other-authors Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal": http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/modest.html Article on recent alarming changes in meat production: http://portside.org/2013-09-10/usda-plans-expand-pilot-program-leaves-meat-contaminated- fecal-matter Article by my friend, attorney Chaumtoli Huq, on the GMO debate: http://www.lawatthemargins.com/bioethics-scientific-research-and-the-gmo-debate/ (Report on) The UN Climate Change Report, 9/27/13: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=226902314 Recent report in the NY Times on the upsurge in family & urban farming: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/18/business/media/a-magazine-for-farm-to- table.html?pagewanted=all&_r=2& NY Times Op Ed, "Dogs are People Too" and a 2nd article making a similar point: 1) http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/06/opinion/sunday/dogs-are-people-too.html?_r=0 2) http://thedailyedge.thejournal.ie/dogs-experience-emotion-1118014-Oct2013/

Four recent NY Times Op Eds by Nicholas Kristof that are relevant to Eating Animals: 2) "The Unhealthy Meat Market": http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/13/opinion/kristof-the- unhealthy-meat- market.html?action=click&contentCollection=Asia+Pacific&module=MostEmailed&version=Full&r egion=Marginalia&src=me&pgtype=article&_r=0 3) "Is That Sausage Worth This?": http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/20/opinion/kristof-is-that- sausage-worth-this.html 4) "Can We See Our Hypocrisy to Animals?": http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/28/opinion/sunday/can-we-see-our-hypocrisy-to-animals.html 4) "Are Chicks Brighter Than Babies?": http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/20/opinion/sunday/are- chicks-brighter-than-babies.html

Dr. Reza Fakhari, Associate Provost: Relevant article from Inside Higher Ed: http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2013/10/07/essay-academics-and-food

Prof. Lisa Freedman recommends "Considering the Humanity of Nonhumans" from the NY Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/10/science/considering-the-humanity-of- nonhumans.html?adxnnl=1&src=recg&adxnnlx=1387289435-TL7JUQ3WEF+28QReW0gKgw

Prof. Lea Fridman: Relevant Excerpt from The Power of Myth: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BzFKnUy0tlbvMkxnT3RQTkl3cjQ/edit?usp=sharing

Dr. Rachelle Goldsmith, Honors Program recommends the following articles: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/25/sunday-review/golden-rice- lifesaver.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/11/26/247377377/did-your-thanksgiving-turkey-take- any-antibiotics

Prof. Steve Janowsky: Discussion Questions on Eating Animals: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BzFKnUy0tlbvRXV5RzNkbEFxM0U/edit?usp=sharing

Prof. Brian Katz: Recent issue of Wired magazine, an issue on food: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/food-issue

Prof. Jason Leggett: Reading Template, Classroom Exercises for Large & Small Groups: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BzFKnUy0tlbvVHRyRUJZSE94UlU/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BzFKnUy0tlbvR3IzV2xTMW9vRm8/edit?usp=sharing

Prof. Gene McQuillan: David Foster Wallace's "Consider the Lobster": http://cunycomposers.wikispaces.com/file/view/Wallace%2C+David+Foster+-- +Consider+the+Lobster.pdf/126536687/Wallace%2C%20David%20Foster%20-- %20Consider%20the%20Lobster.pdf

Helen-Margaret Nasser, Assoc. Provost Office: Materials used in her workshop on _Eating Animals_: "What the world is eating": http://content.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1626519,00.html Hungry Planet, book. The age-old practice of sitting down to a family meal is undergoing unprecedented change as rising world affluence and trade, along with the spread of global food conglomerates, transform eating habits worldwide. HUNGRY PLANET profiles 30 families from around the world--including Bosnia, Chad, Egypt, Greenland, Japan, the United States, and France- -and offers detailed descriptions of weekly food purchases; photographs of the families at home, at market, and in their communities; and a portrait of each family surrounded by a week's worth of groceries. Featuring photo-essays on international street food, meat markets, fast food, and cookery, this captivating chronicle offers a riveting look at what the world really eats.

And, Helen recommends the following additional companion readings: "Farm to Table Living Takes Root": http://nyti.ms/1fnkA1D http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5005952 http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2010/04/04/business/04metrics_g.html?ref=business http://geocurrents.info/cultural-geography/culinary-geography/global-geography-of-meat-and- fish-consumption http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/10/01/appetite_for_destruction_china_food_supply

Prof Ray Neinstein recommends the following article from Rolling Stone: http://www.rollingstone.com/feature/belly-beast-meat-factory-farms-animal- activists#ixzz2n5tl3UQX

Robert Schacter, Liaison / Assoc. Provost's Office: Salon article on the new processed chicken: http://www.salon.com/2013/09/16/chicken_is_killing_the_planet/

Prof. Madeline Sorel recommends the following articles and websites: http://www.takepart.com/article/2013/11/15/how-big-corn-killing-earth https://www.causes.com/v2actions/1755779-organic-heroes-your-right-to-know-grocers

Silvia Torres, KCC Urban Farm Manager: Various relevant articles: http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2011/12/organic-can-feed-the-world/249348/ http://rodaleinstitute.org/2013/antibiotics-are-for-treating-infections-period/ Article on problems in animal agriculture: http://civileats.com/2013/10/22/problems-in-animal-ag-have-gotten-worse-since-pew-report/ On women in farming: http://lwr.org/site/apps/nlnet/content2.aspx?c=dmJXKiOYJgI6G&b=7629461&ct=12950945

Profs Diana Treglia & Mimi Fierle: A book Insight Report assignment and Resource List: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BzFKnUy0tlbvV3hLTHV5NjV2bU0/edit?usp=sharing

Prof. Amy Washburn: Syllabus for Freshman Comp using Eating Animals: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BzFKnUy0tlbvUHRyZXBjUFlGek0/edit?usp=sharing

~Online Teaching Resources~

The UN's World Food Programme -- "Fighting Hunger Worldwide" -- Teacher's Resource Page: https://www.wfp.org/students-and-teachers/teachers?icn=homepage-teachers-lower&ici=homepage-link A recent article on author, Jonathan Safran Foer: http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/04/living/jonathan-safran-foer-profile/index.html?hpt=hp_c2

~Video File Teaching Aids~

Video of our Nov. 12th Event, Student Seminars on Eating Animals:

Video contents: Solo Performance | Student Roundtables | Keynote Talk: Gene Baur, Farm Sanctuary

http://kbvideo.kingsborough.edu/embed/144/

Video of our Inaugural Lecture with Professor Thom Smyth, Culinary Arts, 9/17/13: http://kbvideo.kingsborough.edu/embed/134/

An excellent Canadian video that dovetails nicely with our book: "Old McDonald and the Factory Farm": http://youtu.be/7ktmUEniuYw

Recent video made by Chipotle that dovetails nicely with Eating Animals and sends a strong, comparable message: http://youtu.be/lUtnas5ScSE

Some teachers may wish to show this 6-minute video in class as a visual versionof issues addressed in Eating Animals: http://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/without_saying_a_word_this_6_minute_short_film_will_make_you_speechless/ Another interesting video: a child's view on "eating animals": http://youtu.be/sJNntUXyWvw

Recent video made by Farm Sanctuary to raise awareness about cruelty to animals -- in the video, Gene Baur, who will speak at Kingsborough on Nov. 12th, mentions Eating Animals: http://youtu.be/O3En7KCqwWc

~Video Files of Author: Jonathan Safran Foer~

Video of Foer in conversation on Eating Animals and why he wrote the book - fascinating conversation: http://youtu.be/wjbS8pM57tY

Video of Foer speaking on Eating Animals @ the Sixth and I Historic Synagogue - worthy of discussion: here, he says the word "vegetarian" has done a great disservice to the discussion on this book: video clip: http://youtu.be/wHdf7MkGmg4 full video: http://fora.tv/2009/12/01/Jonathan_Safran_Foer_Eating_Animals

Another excellent interview with Foer on Eating Animals: http://youtu.be/26Cjkd9IMy0

Jonathan Safran Foer on the Ellen show, talking about Eating Animals - worthy of discussion: again, here, he notes how the word "vegetarian" has done a disservice to the discussion surrounding the book AND talks about industry silence in response to it: http://youtu.be/TA_aoqcTt3A

Promo video on Eating Animals where we meet characters in the book, including Grandma and George - worthy of note: here, he says he hopes Eating Animals will be, for you, "the start of a conversation": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRLRclXw2wI

~Audio File Teaching Aids~

Christopher Leonard discusses his new book, The Meat Racket: The Secret Takeover of American’s Food Business: https://www.wnyc.org/radio/#/ondemand/354424

Jonathan Safran Foer radio interview re: Eating Animals, on WHYY's Radio Times: http://whyy.org/cms/radiotimes/2009/11/10/jonathan-safran-foer-on-his-new-book-eating-animals/

~LINKS~ Eating Animals site: http://www.eatinganimals.com/ Niman Ranch site: http://www.nimanranch.com/Index.aspx Farm Forward: http://www.farmforward.com/ World Food Programme: http://www.wfp.org/ City Harvest: http://www.cityharvest.org/ Youth Service Opportunities Project: http://www.ysop.org/index.htm Farm Sanctuary: www.farmsanctuary.org Meat Free Mondays Initiative: http://www.meatfreemondays.co.uk/ Youth Food Juztice Movement: http://www.youthfoodbillofrights.com/ On Women in Farming: http://www.farmher.com/ Food Blog: "Meat Paper": http://www.utne.com/food.aspx#axzz2iGWnVhLi