In this essay, taking a process from everyday life and discussing it as a staged process that involves layers of decision making. The process chosen for this purpose involves acquiring, preparing, using and discarding a leg of meat, and in the process producing products and by products. Endeavoring to identify the processes involved in treating the leg of lamb in such a way that they will be “interpretable” to future generations is the ultimate aim of this essay.
LAMB AS A RAW MATERIAL
Wikipedia (1, 2009) defines lamb as the meat of the domestic sheep, clarifying that lamb is the meat of a young sheep, whereas a hogget or mutton is the meat of a significantly older sheep. The cost values of lamb stipulate varying classification systems depending on the country. This enables the consumer to purchase their requirements accordingly.
The definition of lamb varies considerably between nations. New Zealand, for example, has the following classifications:
Lamb: A sheep under 12 months of age, presenting no incisor teeth.
Hogget: A young male or female sheep that presents no more than two incisor teeth.
Mutton: Refers to an older female or castrated male sheep that has more than two incisor teeth present.
The younger the lamb, the more tender and pink the meat is, whereas mutton usually has significantly darker flesh. Many other specific classifications of lamb are employed in various locations, such as the spring lamb, baby lamb, yearling lamb and sucker lamb meat which can be purchased in some countries (Wikipedia 1, 2009).
MESHING TECHNOLOGY WITH BODY CONSTRAINTS
The Master Butcher website (2009) states that butchering requires the right tools or it can become hazardous and also frustrating. Professional b...
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...ce can be repeated exactly the same. Each material is different and not everybody functions the same way each day. People’s strength and capabilities vary as experience grows or for various other reasons. The reduction sequence of acquiring a leg of lamb is rather too complex to explain in this short analogy, as there are many other factors involved.
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Other differences are in the way the characters are depicted. In 'Lamb to the Slaughter the main character, Mary Maloney, is described as a quiet peaceful person. The writer also indicates that she is pregnant, ' with a sixth month child.' With this description, you would not think of Mary as being a 'typical killer'. What people consider a typical killer is someone like Grimsby Roylott who i...
Having to take your anger out on someone isn’t fair or good, especially if you’re being killed with frozen lamb. Based on everyone’s understanding, when you kill someone you’ll have to pay the price and consequences. Apparently this lady didn’t. But are we sure she’s going to marry another man and kill him too? In “Lamb to the slaughter”, I’m going to be talking about Mary Maloney and how madly crazy she is.
All of Roald Dahl’s stories seem to be brimfull of irony and wry humor, and “Lamb to the Slaughter” is no different. Mary Maloney, a pregnant, but cheerful woman is very much in love with her husband and we certainly don’t expect her to be of any trouble. It’s shocking enough to learn that her husband, who seems such a nice guy, is cheating on her and plans to move out. This changes the expectation of the story right off the bat, and we feel a compassion for the poor woman. We’re not sure how she’s going to cope with this news, especially since she’s six months pregnant with his child. So when she acts rather compulsively and strikes him over the head with the leg of lamb that was going to be his supper, we really are shocked. She’s acted
In "Lamb to the Slaughter" Roald Dahl uses the leg of lamb as a symbol of domesticity. The meat, which the primary intention of it was to be cooked and eaten, had mainly to do with the kitchen and women. When Mary used the leg of lamb to kill her husband, she turned a domestic tool into a tool for harm and murder. In this way, Mary challenged the domestic role the patriarchy of the time had placed her into. The leg of lamb also represents Mary, and the way she follows her husband, the same way a lamb follows a shepherd. The leg of lamb also alludes to the bible; in the way the Jesus was the Lamb and a martyr for Christians, the same way that Mary’s husband was a martyr for the patriarchate.
near her, which is the leg of a lamb, as a murder weapon to kill her
In ’Lamb to the Slaughter’ the main point to the story is to find out
In Lamb to the Slaughter, Mary Maloney, doting housewife pregnant with her first child, commits a heinous crime against her husband. After he tells her that he is leaving, she become distraught and strikes him in the head with a leg of lamb. Afterwards, Mary...
"Yes, thinking meat! Conscious meat! Loving meat. Dreaming meat. The meat is the whole deal. Are you getting the picture?" (1).
Is it morally permissible to eat meat? Much argument has arisen in the current society on whether it is morally permissible to eat meat. Many virtuous fruitarians and the other meat eating societies have been arguing about the ethics of eating meat (which results from killing animals). The important part of the dispute is based on the animal welfare, nutrition value from meat, convenience, and affordability of meat-based foods compared to vegetable-based foods and other factors like environmental moral code, culture, and religion. All these points are important in justifying whether humans are morally right when choosing to eat meat. This paper will argue that it is morally impermissible to eat meat by focusing on the treatment of animals, the environmental argument, animal rights, pain, morals, religion, and the law.
Jesus was the lamb at the meal along with every celebration that the Mass has since. “By celebrating the Last Supper with his apostles in the course of the Passover meal, Jesus gave the Jewish Passover its definitive meaning. Jesus' passing over to his father by his death and Resurrection, the new Passover, is anticipated in the Supper and celebrated in the Eucharist, which fulfills the Jewish Passover and anticipates the final Passover of the Church in the glory of the kingdom.(CCC 1340)”
Stephens, Neil. "Growing Meat in Laboratories: The Promise, Ontology, and Ethical Boundary-Work of Using Muscle Cells to Make Food." Configurations 21.2 (2013): 159-81. Print.
In the first stanza “The Lamb”, opens with "Little Lamb, who made thee?" A child is most likely the speaker and asks the lamb how it came to be. The speaker wants to know how the lamb chooses where it feeds. Next, the speaker asks where the lamb got its’ wool "clothing" and its’ "tender voice" from. In the next stanza, the speaker tries to answer his own question. The speaker tells us that the lamb was made by someone who is called “a Lamb". The creator is a lot like a lamb. He is seen as gentle and pure, just like the speaker, a child, and a lamb.
two entirely different worlds, but it is my belief that it is not the Lamb
An additional view point of the story could be from a woman. A female reading Lamb to the Slaughter would most likely side with Mary Maloney. Dahl starts the story describing Mary’s behavior before her husbands’ arrival. She sits ...
However, Hare’s pro demi-vegetarian argument provides an unequivocal view on the discussion of economic, ecological, and moral topics. While the look into market trends of meat is lacking Hare discusses a reality of the meat industry and its food competitors, that being the cost behind animal rearing and husbandry. While the high costs incurred does not entail permissibility the surrounding circumstances do. If fodder is grown on terrain only suitable for a pasture, then as a result husbandry and animal domestication (and later slaughter) is permissible because the economic consequences of harvesting crops would greatly outweigh the benefits and as such the community improves more from the meat/animal byproduct industry. This economical and ecological argument is one of several that Hare provides in his article Why I Am Only A Demi-Vegetarian, in addition to the market term being coined and reasoning behind