Everyone views animals in different ways, which caused an argument between me and the other members of my discussion group. All three of us had different points of view. After listening carefully to their argument, it made me reevaluate my own. I hadn't noticed how easy it was for someone to break down an argument to the point where it no longer seemed plausible. Puppies, Pigs, and People: Eating Meat and Fringe Cases lay the foundation for how I see the arguments. Alastair Norcross lays out concrete ideas, along with rebuttals that make the document virtually indisputable. He also includes that people might argue that “the suffering of factory-farmed animals is simply expected as a side effect of a system that is a means to the gustatory pleasures of millions of people.” (p. 234). I believe those people are wrong, which is why I chose to discuss them for this assignment. Throughout my high school career, I was told that to hook a reader, you have to hook them. Norcross does just that. He immediately begins his article by introducing a man named Fred. Apparently, Fred was “a big lover of chocolate.” Fred suffered a head injury and, as a result, no longer tastes chocolate. This caused Fred to resort to drastic measures. He discovered he could taste chocolate again, on one occasion: he had to torture innocent puppies to extract a specific hormone from their