Got Milk?

Milk has been a hot topic in the world recently. Many activist groups are beginning to boycott cow milk and push people to drink alternatives. Recent lawsuits have slammed the dairy industry for their deceptive assertion stating they treated cows nicely. It was discovered that cows have been treated in an inhumane way and many are enraged by this finding. According to an article by Glynis Farrell Bergner, "Members of the watchdog group also allegedly witnessed farm employees shooting cows and leaving them to die..." (Bergner). This quote provided a hefty allegation against a farm that would prove vital in the case later on. Many young people are beginning to switch to alternatives such as almond milk and soy milk to boycott these farms.

Source: https://www.courthousenews.com/milk-drinkers-blast-producers-claims-of-humane-cow-treatment/

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Wife for camels?

Finding Fake news:

In an age where information gets traded with seemingly no filter at all,

we all need to check our facts more than ever before. Sites like

worldnewsdailyreport.com, despite having a legitimate sounding name,

would like you to click on their sensationalist headlines like

“Saudi Arabia: American tourist arrested for refusing to trade

his wife to a prince for 45 camels”. This website is actually a satirical

news site which publishes a disclaimer reading “[...] WNDR assumes

however all responsibility for the satirical nature of its articles and for

the fictional nature of their content[…]” This doesn’t stop people from

believing in these types of articles, though. As a reader by the name

of Yvan who presumably read the article without reading the disclaimer

said, “and we make business with this sick country!” I think we should

all check out websites likes snopes.com who fact check so you don’t

have to. Here is their take on the Saudi Arabia article.

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TRENDING

News Feed:  News nowadays is received for most people when they’re not even
searching for it. Personally I go on the internet a lot (kinda a huge nerd) and I’ll
see the “trending” page or the “hot” page and click on it because it’s something
that everyone else is interested in. A good example of this is when I went on
Youtube yesterday and I scrolled through my recommended feed and Pewdiepie’s
video on Dr. Disrespect came up which peaked my interest. After it being posted
for only 4 hours it had over 600,000 views. The same thing happens on things like
Reddit as well. I’ll scroll through my feed and I’ll see posts where there will be over
hundreds of comments discussing certain things about what's going on around the
world… whether that's games or politics. Truly, I feel as though all these companies
use every single type of rhetorical choice to get their points across to all of their users.
Posts such as “Ima touch the giant” to “TIL that in the late Classical Era of Greece,
women owned 35% of the land and property in Sparta.”

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a Digital Detox

Journalists in the Wild: journalist Gemma Music travels to Africa in hopes of discovering a new perspective on life, sees that there is more out there than simply what we’re use to. There are many different animals, people, and cultures to experience… and how everyone in some way, shape, or form needs to have a “digital detox” -“Save yourself the tech-frustration and just switch off. Easy. No reception, no problems.”. Gemma uses logos to illustrate her point of view by explaining to her audience why she believes that everyone should try to travel to Africa and experience a life where you’re disconnected from others and just “live”. [1 image, 1 link, 1 quote, 107 words]

https://www.gapyear.com/articles/travel-ideas/why-trip-africa-total-life-changer