Amy Phillips made me laugh out loud this morning. As I am about to have my a** handed to me in my Phil 174 final tomorrow, that is an accomplishment. Here’s what she wrote:
“American society makes a lot of arbitrary divisions between different types of animals. There are food animals, mainly distinguishable by the fact that they are privately owned and raised for the purpose of slaughter. There’s wildlife, those animals that live in unpopulated areas and are nice to look at. There are hunting animals, which live in unpopulated areas and are nice to shoot at. There are pests, mostly classified as such because they bother humans or animals that humans like. And then there are pets, animals we take into our homes and make members of our family…”