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rant. stupid lecturer

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afimelb afimelb VIC Posts: 141
11 21 Jul 2010
God I wish I was in your class... I would've ripped him a new one.

yeah worst thing was he didnt let me talk sad  yes it would of been good for someone else to notice what he was saying without blindly talking notes
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afimelb afimelb VIC Posts: 141
12 21 Jul 2010
hey thanks everyone really good points. happy
i am going to talk to him next class.
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Ellim Ellim United Kingdom Posts: 480
13 21 Jul 2010
Tanya M said:
Do you think your lecturer would be open to watching "Meat the Truth"?? If not, I would accuse him of not being much of a scholar if he is unwilling to further or expand his own education!
I would not do this, for two main reasons:
1. You would need to be able to back up the scholarly validity of 'Meat the Truth.'  Something which is incredibly difficult to do for a video.  Instead, I would find a scholarly peer-reviewed journal article which backs up your point.  Print it out and give it to him (you should have access to databases of peer-review articles through you university library website, try a broad database like ProQuest to begin with.)
2. It's extremely rude and it's a personal insult, and this is a person you don't want to get off side.  You never know who is going to end up marking your essay.  NEVER get personal in an academic argument, it will completely undermine all the valid points you have made.

Be calm, stick to academic facts that you can back up.  Even if (s)he doesn't agree with you, at least they will respect the way you have carried out your argument in a scholarly fashion.
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Ruin Ruin VIC Posts: 198
14 21 Jul 2010
I should come with you to your class tongue Meet someone who should be dead according to his info. lol. Seriously is he using texbooks from 1950 or something? Vegetarian diets are preferential according to many organizations. Give him the China Study to read.

Sigh and he's teaching people... >.<

I hope you manage to turn his opinion on healthy diets around.
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Tanya M Tanya M VIC Posts: 741
15 21 Jul 2010
EJay said:
Tanya M said:
Do you think your lecturer would be open to watching "Meat the Truth"?? If not, I would accuse him of not being much of a scholar if he is unwilling to further or expand his own education!
I would not do this, for two main reasons:
1. You would need to be able to back up the scholarly validity of 'Meat the Truth.'  Something which is incredibly difficult to do for a video.  Instead, I would find a scholarly peer-reviewed journal article which backs up your point.  Print it out and give it to him (you should have access to databases of peer-review articles through you university library website, try a broad database like ProQuest to begin with.)
2. It's extremely rude and it's a personal insult, and this is a person you don't want to get off side.  You never know who is going to end up marking your essay.  NEVER get personal in an academic argument, it will completely undermine all the valid points you have made.

Be calm, stick to academic facts that you can back up.  Even if (s)he doesn't agree with you, at least they will respect the way you have carried out your argument in a scholarly fashion.
Fair points...I guess I'm just not that scholarly!!
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Lollielegs Lollielegs SA Posts: 16
16 4 Feb 2011
I don't know if anyone else has suggested this yet, but if they have, kudos to them.
Write an essay (using as many scientific facts at possible) and ask him to read over it for you (give it to him at the end of the lecture) or somehow slip it into his paperwork. I would suggest you read "the china study" and get a bit out of that. Also, check out peter singer, he's pretty much written your argument for you.

If it were me I would have yelled across everybody and told him to shut his poorly educated mouth and go back to the pre historic cave he came from, as by cutting out the meat, we would have less greenhouse gasses, more land (think about it, the cows eat the plants, the people eat the cows.... so what if the people just ate the plants, resulting in less cows being mass produced, resulting in less space required.

I would also argue that it's quite common for a vegan student to have a better/more nutritional, yet still reasonably priced diet than an omnivore one, as a can of lentils costs a heck of a lot less than beef, and a LOT of transfats and cholestoral is instantly cut out of ones diet, as well as takeaway, causing the student to cook for themselves, hence think about what they are eating. That's not to say however, that there aren't vegan students out there who basically live of 2 minute noodles, but there are many omnivores who also do so.


I've had a couple of nasty incidents with lecturers, usually it's because of something they would show, one had a clip of a father and son going rabbit hunting which I can only assume was very graphic ( I walked out of that class and had a stern chat with them at the end of it) and the other played a clip where a dog was intentionally bitten by a snake and the class watched as the dog wailed in pain and eventually died... That lecturer also heard many harsh words and will not be showing the clip any time soon.
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ZoolNerd ZoolNerd NSW Posts: 1005
17 4 Feb 2011
Explain about all the other cultures that live on a plant based diet. Explain how civilisations like the Incas and Aztacs only survived because of Quinoa and Chia Seeds.


Its so the other way around. Meat can sustain us but with vegetables we would die. Look at all the sick sailors on the migrating english boats that died because they didn't have nutrition. Heres a fact. They had chickens and sheep on their boats. But no vegetables and fruits. Example A (or should it be C): Scurvy!

It seems to me as an lecturer he doesn't have alot of biological backround. Already I have learnt that humans NEED plants to survive, and meet can be used 3 times a week for an easy source of vitamins and minerals.
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