Helen Simpson Animals
In recent years, animal life activists and government officials have teamed up to develop plans to keep endangered animals from going extinct and to limit deforestation. Although their diligent work has shown security for animal and plant lives, they have yet to target the underlying problem which is climate change due to human involvement making it harder to protect all species of plants and animals. In Helen Simpson’s Diary of an Interesting Year, Simpson makes it clear to the audience that nearly all animal life is extinct other than a select few. Simpson’s short story describes a future that involves humans having to rely on food that is readily available which does not include many animals allowing it to be easier to suffer from starvation.
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In Helen Simpson’s Diary of an Interesting Year, the audience is placed into the future where everything is corrupt and the food supply is based what the government supplying it to the people. Humans have come to greatly depend on plants and animals for various reasons such as clothing, oxygen to breathe, and of course food. In an article by Joshua Frank, he states “The high levels of meat consumption prevalent in Western nations have a wide range of negative consequences at both an individual and social level” (322). Although Frank’s argument that it should not be socially acceptable to eat animals if we can find alternative food with the same nutritional value seems morally correct, this is not very realistic. This idea is not plausible because it would take a bigger quantity of a different food, such as beans, to match up to the amount of protein gained by only a small portion of meat. Even if humans were to stop eating animal meat all together, we would still be using these animals such as sheep and silkworms for clothing. Although it may be morally wrong, humans also need animals for medical research and advancements. With humans causing climate change to be more noticeable, it only means that the extinction of certain animals is closer than ever meaning that humans will suffer from plant and animal loss. Extinction of plants and animals means we would be living in a world without viable sources of food, loss of needed knowledge, and even loss of currency. If humans continue to feed into climate change by greenhouse gases then our future may look similar to the situations faced in Simpson’s short
In Helen Simpson’s Diary of an Interesting Year, the audience is placed into the future where everything is corrupt and the food supply is based what the government supplying it to the people. Humans have come to greatly depend on plants and animals for various reasons such as clothing, oxygen to breathe, and of course food. In an article by Joshua Frank, he states “The high levels of meat consumption prevalent in Western nations have a wide range of negative consequences at both an individual and social level” (322). Although Frank’s argument that it should not be socially acceptable to eat animals if we can find alternative food with the same nutritional value seems morally correct, this is not very realistic. This idea is not plausible because it would take a bigger quantity of a different food, such as beans, to match up to the amount of protein gained by only a small portion of meat. Even if humans were to stop eating animal meat all together, we would still be using these animals such as sheep and silkworms for clothing. Although it may be morally wrong, humans also need animals for medical research and advancements. With humans causing climate change to be more noticeable, it only means that the extinction of certain animals is closer than ever meaning that humans will suffer from plant and animal loss. Extinction of plants and animals means we would be living in a world without viable sources of food, loss of needed knowledge, and even loss of currency. If humans continue to feed into climate change by greenhouse gases then our future may look similar to the situations faced in Simpson’s short