Summary of "If you Had to Kill Your Own Hog" | ENG 1010, Papers of Grammar and Composition

Download Summary of "If you Had to Kill Your Own Hog" | ENG 1010 and more Papers Grammar and Composition in PDF only on Docsity! Summary of "If You Had to Kill Your Own Hog" 1In "If You Had to Kill Your Own Hog," Dick Gregory argues that the continued practice of eating meat is like the continued practice of segregation. He makes this point by showing a contradiction in the way his mother viewed the Bible. 2Gregory says that his mother could not understand how whites could use the Bible 3"to justify racial segregation," but she herself failed to see that the commandment "Thou shalt not kill" prohibits the killing of animals for food. 4Gregory explains that his mother believed that people needed meat to live. 5Gregory counters this argument, however, by noting that it is untrue. Further, he contends that all life is to be 6 respected, and, thus, killing animals is wrong. In fact, taking animal life is 7“sowing the seed for misusing the highest of Nature's creatures, man." 8Gregory believes that if people had to kill the animals they ate, they would not eat animals. 9The fact that people do not watch the suffering allows it to continue-just as ghetto conditions persist because the wealthy do not witness the suffering there. 1Opening sentence includes author. title. and thesis. Notice the present tense of the verb agues. 3 Quotation marks because phrase is the author's distinctive style. 4-5Author's name repeated for transition. Note the present tense verbs. Restatement of main points. 6 No quotation marks around respected because not part of author’s distinctive style 7 Quotation marks around exact words. 8 Author’s name re-peated for transition. Verb in present tense. 9 Restatement of main point.