2017 Philosophy of Food Final Essay Assignment

Final Essays

Topic Assignment

• For each of your two final essays, please write a two page typed, double spaced, 12 font answer. Your answer should demonstrate excellence in writing, use of content, logic, and insight. The first essay topic is stipulated, but you may choose from a list of three topics for the second one.

• 1st topic: Give a basic general account of values that should govern our use of animals and plants as food. Then show how these values affect sourcing considerations for at least one type of animal food.

• 2nd topic: Choose one of the following:

• A. Select four distinct sources or ideas from the course that you could use to make the case that food culture is a central part of human culture.
• B. Why did nutrition science take so long to develop and why it is so difficult to reduce a nutritious diet to a list of key macro and micro-nutrients?
• C. How does the critique of food culture from the Slow Food movement intersect with other critiques of the food industry made in this course?

Assignment Instructions

• Prepare your essays in a single .docx file or .pdf. Find your animal name for this assignment (see below) and put your animal name in the file. Please identify the essay topic at the start of your answer. The two essays together should not exceed four pages. Upload the file to the "Final Essays" dropbox by midnight, May 9th.

St. Agatha yak St. Amand reindeer St. Ansgar falcon St. Anthony Claret badger St. Augustine of Canterbury jellyfish St. Augustine of Hippo dolphin St. Bede the Venerable hummingbird St. Benedict scorpion St. Bernardine of Siena bear St. Bridget hare St. Bridget bluejay St. Canute ocelot St. Casimir turtle St. Catherine of Alexandria bison St. Catherine of Siena raven St. Clare of Assisi giraffe St. Columba ferret St. David of Wales seahorse St. Dismas mantis St. Dominic Savio butterfly St. Dorothy nightingale St. Dunstan kangaroo St. Francis Borgia walrus St. Francis Xavier albatross St. Gertrude the Great anaconda St. Gregory the Great otter St. Hugh of Lincoln ibis St. Isidore of Seville porpoise St. Jerome rattlesnake St. John Baptist de la Salle manatee St. John Bosco swan St. John of Capistrano viper St. John the Apostle penguin St. John the Baptist whale St. Joseph Cafasso jaguar St. Joseph of Cupertino koala St. Lucy lark St. Luke gull St. Mark of Ephesus pelican St. Martha dragonfly St. Mary of the Gael ostrichowl St. Nicholas von Flue coyote St. Norbert of Xanten starling St. Patrick tarsier St. Peregrine Laziosi hound St. Peregrine Laziosi finch St. Polycarp seal St. Raymond Nonnatus wolverine St. Raymond of Penafort kiwi St. Stephen octopus St. Thomas Aquinas elk St. Thomas the Apostle iguana St. Ursula chipmunk St. Vincent Ferrer caterpillar St. Vitus dove St. Wenceslaus rhinoceros St. Zita of Lucca antelope