Introduce your topic and discuss its importance: My topic is going to be about cattle diet and how it affects the quality of the beef that we eat. Depending on the kind of food that cows eat, determine if they will carry on a sickness or not even after they are processed. The main diets that a cow should be given is a grass based diet. In my paper I will be addressing the disadvantages of compromising a cows feeding method. Alternative feeding tends to cause food borne illnesses like mad cow disease whereas grass based feeding usually results in higher quality of meat.
Introduce your questions and a working thesis: Why is alternative based feeding chosen so much over grass based feeding? Why don’t farmers just use grass anymore? Why is alternative feeding so cheap to produce? Is it healthier to choose alternative based feeding over grass based feeding? What illnesses does it cause in cows? Does it contaminate our beef? How so? What sicknesses can we obtain? Have there been any recalls? How many people have been affected as a direct result of food contamination? What is being done to reduce this problem? Why doesn’t the government intervene in legislation? Whether a cow has been given dead animals to eat or grass to eat will determine the quality of the meat that ends up being produced.
Discuss specific tools and sources that you will be using to conduct your research: I will searching for newspaper articles from subscription databases like LexisNexis Academic and National Newspaper index that includes America’s top five newspapers. I will also be looking at newspaper articles from our Annotated Bibliography packets which include: “Swine of the Times” by Nathanael Johnson, and article by Laurent Belsie that was published in August 23, 2010 with too long a title, “Eating well; irradiated beef: In markets, quietly” by Marian Burros and “How Now, Drugged Cow?” by Tony Hiss. Films like “Food Inc.” and “King Corn will also provide some influence when it comes to making my argumentation.
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