Wow. I found this book because it has been talked about a lot in my classes and from students in my classes, so I decided to take a look to see what all the fuss was about. This is probably the most controversial book I have read this semester even though we already read all of our books on controversy. Whether or not I believe in eating meat from animals, I would not use this book in my classroom. I'm not saying I wouldn't allow it in my classroom, but I think I would cause an uproar by reading it aloud. It is so incredibly one sided, and infers that people who eat meat are bad people.
I also didn't particularly care for the pictures. The animals look funny, having big bodies and super skinny legs. Also, the snouts on the animals such as the cows are square and also don't look like any cow I have ever seen. The art work is good, don't get me wrong but I think they are trying to exaggerate some things like the way we feed ducks to make them fat so they can't fly so the pictures show huge ducks.
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