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And then after class said that she would like to teach another one where the question is "should we even have a livestock industry at all?". I told her that I'd love to teach one where I just make the students repeatedly read The Jungle and Grapes of Wrath until they start burning shit down and she replied that it already seems like we're heading that way.

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[-] happybadger@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago

That's what it would be. The Okie dialect alone is a hard thing to read through and I assume everyone is going to be cheating with AI summaries now. I'd want to highlight the broad themes of land use, population displacement, commodification, and the demographic dimensions to apply them as the leading question in a discussion elective where the only real grade is participation/a brief presentation.

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