Compare and Contrast Sources of Evidence

Jonathan Lung

Compare and Contrast Sources of Evidence

            When you compare the James Hamblin’s Purity Through Food: How Religious Ideas Sell Diets to Sandip Roy’s India's War On Biryani Mixes Caste, Religion, Cow-Avenging Vigilantes, both articles utilize secondary sources to support their claims and provide detail evidence. However, Hamblin’s article differs by adding primary sources through the form of an interview. He also uses sources from a historical perspective and his personal experience where “[he] recounts a confrontation at a farmer’s market, where he asked a vendor whether her juice was processed” and ended with an epiphany on how people see things in a limited perspective. On the other hand, Roy uses secondary sources such as statistics as his evidence. One of the stats he uses is how “In 2015, the state government passed a law that punishes the slaughter of cows with up to 10 years in prison. Over 20 Indian states forbid either cow slaughter or beef eating or both.” Despite the different types of evidences, they effectively support their claims, and the reader is left without a doubt of the author’s intention.  

Work Cited

Hamblin, James. "Purity Through Food: How Religious Ideas Sell Diets." The Atlantic.            Atlantic Media Company, n.d. Web. 16 Sept. 2016.

Roy, Sandip. "India's War On Biryani Mixes Caste, Religion, Cow-Avenging Vigilantes." NPR. NPR, n.d. Web. 16 Sept. 2016.