During the debate that desalination plants should be banned Julia brought up a large number of points. Some of which helped he case and others, which seemed to broad to be true. For example, Julia claimed that the use of the plants will through off the salinity levels in the water, this point was very hard to believe based on the size of the ocean. She also claimed that the plants kill millions on sea animals just merely in the intake tube alone. Why this is hard for me to believe is because I’m sure there is some sort of screen on the end of these tubes to filter out a large number of by products in the ocean. One of Julia’s good points was that the cost to produce a gallon of water exceeded …show more content…
The debate was about the inhuman treatment of animals during the festival as well as, the kidnapping of animals from all around China just for the festival. Lorena started off but focusing on how the animals were inhumanely killed, beaten, burned alive, boiled alive and skinned alive. She also pointed out the many of the animals were claimed to be peoples pets who were taken from them illegally just to fund the Yulin festival. She also mentioned that the festival was a tradition however, she proved that wrong by presenting information about how the local meat and dog trailers used the festival to increase revenue. During the refutation Benny had some amazing counter arguments stating that it was part of China’s heritage. Also he went on to provide information from China that the festival was soon to be banned, and a stop to the public killing of animals were to be illegal in public. As well as, China was placing strict food safety laws on the selling of dog meat, to help limit the number of diseases spreading between humans and dogs. Lorena rebutted this with the points that dog meat traders should be punished. Benny rebutted this by saying plans were already in place and the festival was greatly declining. On Terms of delivery Lorena pre-though out her entire speech and it didn’t reflect the points Benny was presenting. If I had to choose a winner for this debate it would be