Thinking about Arguments

     In the article "Don't Presume to Know a Pig's mind" by Tarkio, Mo it talks about how a commercial from chipotle Mexican grill is starting to make farmers think twice about how they are raising there pigs and even how they are raising other farm animals they have. In the article the author makes an arguments about how chipotle claims to only use happier pigs, yet they don't explain how they know if the pigs are happy and how do they measure their happiness. he claims that there is no way to measure the happiness of a pig and the only thing we can agree on is that pig production shouldn't cause pain "needless pain" to the pigs. he then goes on by saying that we don't know for sure if pigs aren't happy living inside a warm, dry building, and in the end it doesn't matter because the pig end up on a plate. the article then states that after the commercial ran mcdonalds made an announcement on how they would make their pork supplier end gestation crates, but then argues on how those crates are meant to feed the pigs equally because when they are put on grouped pens the pigs are known to be aggressive and start fights so they can eat most of the food. in the end he talks about how we cant ask pigs which life style they prefer the only thing we do know might happen is that the price of pork will rise, and although many companies might be able to afford the changes or at least have the political sway to resist them , small farmers raising hogs now will be push out of the industry. farmers are business people who responds to market signal but they are being mixed because some say we need to produce more as prices and world hunger are increasing, yet others are disputing over the animal cares and want plentiful and affordable food supply.
      i chose this article because it interested me. the author of the article made good points on the issue at hand. i think i might do ok writing on the topic yet i might come across some problems. i mostly chose this article because the title caught my attention. i wanted to keep on reading and understand what the title meant. in the end the article was interesting and i didnt know this issues was happening and would like to analyze it further.