For my final project of New Millennium, I decided to create a colorful booklet of quotes regarding the topic of eating meat. I titled it, “The Great Debate: Or is it?” It features numerous quotes from important and known people in the past and present such as Leonardo DaVinci and Paul McCartney, along with college students that I personally know. The well-known figures all condemn eating meat and their quotes are all related to a non-meat diet, while all the college students I asked are pro-eating meat and they each state their reason for this. The quotes are relatively short and are typed-out and are pasted on colorful sheets of paper.
When I first decided to create a booklet about eating meat, I originally wanted to present a debate about it. I wanted to keep it neutral by providing quotes from famous figures who were both for eating meat and and who were strictly opposed. However, this was much harder than I anticipated since I could not find any quotes from famous figures who spoke out about how eating meat was moral and acceptable; I could only find quotes on the famous condemning it. I then decided to resolve this issue by asking my fellow college students why eating meat is acceptable to them. I know very few vegetarians so I knew this would not be a difficult task. After I received my desired quotes, I was able to create a “semi-debate” where the famous were the vegetarian side, and the college students were certainly the meat-eating side.
I love bright, flashy colors, which is the reason I wanted to construct my project with bright pieces of colored paper. I put it in the form of a booklet, which I believe would be easiest to read and would be the most organized way of presenting the quotes. I am a very visually person, so I decided to type out the quotes and then tape them to the paper.
My booklet answered the guiding questions, “What ought I do? How ought we act?” It is based on the key question of "is it morally acceptable to eat meat?" In our society, there is an ethical dilemma on whether eating meat is morally acceptable or not. Though the majority of the world does indeed follow a carnivorous diet, there are millions who strongly oppose this choice. Many believe that eating a living being for no reason other than pleasure is not morally right.
The main message I have arrived at is that it is far easier to speak out against eating meat than it is to speak for it. Thousands of celebrities and important figures throughout time have stressed a vegetarian diet, yet there are virtually none who have promoted a carnivorous one. This certainly should be an eye-opener that eating meat is not all it is cracked up to be; there is something wrong with it.
This project could be related to a similar one I created in high school. I tend to always use bright colored paper, and for my AP history final class project, I presented a similar booklet that addressed the lifestyles of renaissance women. While this project is much more creative and not nearly as dry, the two booklets are closely related to each other.
I want the audience to know that even though most eat meat themselves, there is a reason that no one majorly voices their opinion to why eating meat is necessary. Thousands of the famous have voiced their choice to go vegetarian, while there are virtually not any who voice their carnivorous diet. They audience will hopefully receive this and think about it. I hope they would ponder on this idea and perhaps lean towards a vegetarian diet.
The strength of this project is most definitely the quotes. Some of the quotes are extremely powerful and really make the audience think. Also I believe the aesthetically pleasing style of the book is a strength as well. Perhaps a weakness would be only seven quotes were taken from college students reflecting their choice to eat meat.
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