{"id":1604,"date":"2017-05-07T15:20:23","date_gmt":"2017-05-07T20:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/?p=1604"},"modified":"2017-05-07T18:09:06","modified_gmt":"2017-05-07T23:09:06","slug":"best-of-the-semester-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/2017\/05\/07\/best-of-the-semester-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Best of the Semester"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My favorite reading was the &#8220;Consider the Lobster&#8221; reading. I&#8217;ve always somewhat struggled with the ethics of eating meat in general, but I never once extended those feelings towards animals like shellfish. To learn that these animals that we\u00a0<em>boil alive<\/em> might be feeling extreme pain was quite unreal\u00a0to read about. I really enjoyed the subsequent debate and discussion we had in class that day; it was one of the most memorable class discussions we had.<\/p>\n<p>My favorite reading I did on my own accord was\u00a0&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.recode.net\/2017\/2\/14\/14594782\/buzzfeed-makes-money-from-its-tasty-food-videos-facebook\">How BuzzFeed makes money from its Tasty food videos.&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0From my own anecdotal experience, I knew that Tasty videos reached an incredible amount of people, but I didn&#8217;t realize just how big these videos had gotten. According to this article, Tasty videos reach &#8220;500 million people a month&#8221; or &#8220;one in two Americans.&#8221; It was also interesting to learn that\u00a0<em><\/em>Tasty has become somewhat of a consulting firm, because of their vast collection of successful videos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My favorite reading was the &#8220;Consider the Lobster&#8221; reading. I&#8217;ve always somewhat struggled with the ethics of eating meat in general, but I never once extended those feelings towards animals like shellfish. To learn that these animals that we\u00a0boil alive might be feeling extreme pain was quite unreal\u00a0to read about. I really enjoyed the subsequent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":350,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-favorite-readings","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/350"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1605,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604\/revisions\/1605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}