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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What livestock industry is, according to the author, by far the most ethically impressive segment of the meat industry?

2. What company did Diane and Marlene Halverson found?

3. Approximately how many pounds of antibiotics are given to livestock each year in the U.S., according to the industry?

4. On average, Americans eat the equivalent of how many entire animals in a lifetime?

5. About how long do broiler chickens live before they are typically slaughtered?

Short Essay Questions

1. What company does Frank Reese run? What does it specialize in?

2. What are the benefits and the detriments of the water-immersion system in poultry production?

3. How does Nicolette Niman justify her work at Niman Ranch while maintaining a vegetarian lifestyle?

4. What is the Humane Methods of Slaughter Act and when was it enacted?

5. What meat industry does the author consider to be the most ethically upstanding? Why?

6. The author asserts that the ethical relationship of farmers to farm animals is unique. How does he elaborate on this?

7. Discuss the practices of branding, debudding, and castration. Are these practices regarded as cruel? Why or why not?

8. What infections are common in factory-farmed poultry? How common are they?

9. Describe the different points in processing where contamination often occurs.

10. What is Bill Niman's response to Bruce Friedrich's transcript in the book?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the history of domesticated poultry from early domestication to today. How have our relationships with animals changed over time? What has caused those changes? How have our connections with our food's origins transitioned?

Essay Topic 2

Describe and discuss the organization Farm Forward. When and where was Farm Forward established? Who founded the organization? What is the organization's mission? How were they involved in the publication of Eating Animals?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the author's relationship with his grandmother and the influences that his grandmother had on him. How did her perseverance during the war inspire the author? What was her relationship to food? How is the story about the Russian farmer relevant to the themes of the book?

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