...Hidden Wonders of Meat in Corporate America I believe that people should eat meat over being vegetarian since it can greatly benefit the economy and makes billions of dollars every year supporting a huge amount of jobs. Meat greatly aids one’s personal health as well, you can only get the amino acids to synthesize the protein from meat. As a matter of fact, in America its easier to find a meal with meat than without. For thousands of years we have had no problem in finding ways to make a meal, with meat or without. Until now. In 1847 the idea of vegetarianism came upon us, but until 1971 it didn’t take much authority in America. This new healthier lifestyle introduced to the growing corporate America made us question how we ate, and if it would affect our personal health, and future wellbeing....
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...At first, many people were hesitant to wrap their heads around the fact that the food that was being transported to them from far away could be producing something harmful to the environment. Flash forward a couple of years and environmental impact is now one of the biggest arguments in the debate regarding the ethics of eating meat. Such discoveries are backed up by writers like Brian Henning, who writes about how meat production has negatively impacted the environment locally. In his journal, "Standing in Livestock's Long Shadow: The Ethics of Eating Meat on a Small Planet," Henning mentions how the production of meat has led to a concerning amount of water waste. The alarming rate in which this is occurring has led the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations to believe that by the year 2050, the individuals living in water-stressed populations will rise from 1.5 billion to 3-5 billion (NAO). Unfortunately, meat production is not the only food that pollutes the Earth. Horticulture, the practice of garden cultivation, is not far behind meat regarding pollution. During the 1990's, there was a demand for healthier and more organic foods as consumers became more conscious on what they ate (Fig. 1). Randy Stringer's journal shows how the over-cultivation of Australian land began to contaminate the land with excessive water, fertilizer, and chemical use. Soon enough, environmental problems became linked with the over-farming...
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...On pages 248-258 Peter Singer and Jim Mason discuss the ethics of eating meat. They bring in several different authors to discuss this idea. However, while they bring in the authors’ the clearest conclusion that they make is that, The moral distance between the food choices made by conscientious omnivores and those made by the most of the population is so great that it seems more appropriate to praise the conscientious omnivores for how far they have come, rather than to criticize them for not having gone further. With that said, I believe that they have not taken a clear stand on whether or not it is ethically ok to eat meat. They bring in Pollan’s idea that if you eat meat that has had a good life, then it is ethically ok to eat meat because, if you did not eat meat then the animals would not be alive. However, with that idea they do bring in the idea that the animals that we eat were once wild animals that had become domesticated. They also brought in the point that by domesticating animals we helped them survive. They heled to show this with the...
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...Doctors have discovered many things that can cause cancer. Such as being in the sun too long, smoking, or having a genetic relation to a family member that was diagnosed with cancer. No one would even imagine that eating red meat or even processed meat could possible give you cancer. In the first article, released by the International Agency for Research on Cancer, also known as the IARC, said that a “Working group of 22 experts from 10 countries convened” that “the consumption of red meat was probably carcinogenic to humans, based on limited evidence that the consumption of red meat causes cancer in humans and strong mechanistic evidence supporting a carcinogenicity effect.” and “800 studies that investigated associations of more than a dozen types of cancer with the consumption of red meat or processed meat” in the past 20 years. They also stated that a “50 gram portion of processed meat eaten daily increases the risk of colorectal cancer by 18%.” Anyone that has eaten processed and red meat and also read this article probably went into a frenzy thinking that they are going to get cancer and might already have cancer by eating these types of meat. These types of meat include beef, veal, pork, lam, mutton, horse, goat and any meat being altered by salting, curing, fermentation, smoking or any process...
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...Peter Singer, in his essay “Equality for Animals” argues, “If animals count in their own right, our use of animals for food becomes questionable.” Barbara Kingsolver, in her essay “You Can’t Run away on Harvest Day”, defends against the argument about not eating meat because it’s harming a life. Indicating an estimate, “67 million birds die each year from pesticide exposure”, she points out: “To believe we can live without taking life is delusional.” Gary Steiner, in his essay “Animal, Vegetable, Miserable”, harshly states that it is not “purport to justify the killing and consumption of animals in the name of human welfare.” But really, what does it mean to eat ethically? What moral principles should guide our food choices and ways of eating?...
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...1 Mineral and Water Function Essay Melissa Eaves SCI/241 09/30/2012 Lori Jumps 2 Mineral and Water Function Essay Minerals and water are two very important of the body. There are many things that can affect them which cause the body to suffer. This essay will discuss the functions and sources of minerals as well as the function of water and the general effect of dehydration on the body. There are seven minerals that play a large part in the body and how it functions. The seven minerals are sodium, chloride, potassium, calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, and sulfur. All of these minerals have a certain function and its own source. Sodium is needed to balance fluid and help muscle contractions. Good sources of sodium include table salt and soy sauce. There are also large amounts of sodium in processed foods along with small amounts in things like milk and bread. Chloride, like sodium, is needed for fluid balance but also makes stomach acid. Chloride is also found in products like table salt and soy sauce. It is also the same as sodium when it comes to the amount that is in certain foods like more in processed foods and less in products like meat, milk, and breads. Potassium is similar to both sodium and chloride. It is needed for fluid balance and muscle contraction, but also plays a part in nerve transmission. Good sources of potassium are meats, milk, fresh fruits, vegetables, whole grains and legumes. Calcium is a very important mineral...
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...Mineral and Water Functions Essay Abstract This essay will explain the functions and sources of minerals, and the function of water in the body. I will also explain the general effect of dehydration on the body, and identify ways to prevent dehydration. Mineral and Water Functions Essay According to Vitamin and Supplements (2013), functions of minerals and there sources will vary according to the specific mineral. “Sodium is a mineral that is needed for balancing fluid in our body, muscle contraction, and nerve transmission. The source of this mineral can be found in table salt, soy sauce, breads, vegetables, and unprocessed food. Chloride functions stomach acid and also maintain a proper balance of fluid in our bodies. This mineral can be found in meats, vegetables, and breads” (WebMD.COM, 2013). Calcium has a function maintaining healthy bones and teeth, nerve function, blood pressure, and blood clotting. Sources of calcium can be found in milk products, can fish, soy milk, and legumes. Phosphorus helps with developing healthy bones, maintaining acid balance, and found in our cells. The sources of phosphorus are poultry, eggs, meat, and milk. Magnesium function is needed for protein, immune system, nerve transmission, and can be found in bones. The sources are seeds, nuts, legumes, seafood, and green vegetables. Sulfur can be found in our protein molecules, and its sources are meats, fish, legumes, nuts, and milk (Vitamins and Supplements, WebMD.COM, 2013). The...
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...The essay assignment was to gather data about some aspect of food habits, and to compare the findings to some aspect of the book Good to Eat by anthropologist Marvin Harris. Write comments that will help the student reformulate this essay for another revision. In your comments, focus on 1) the argument structure, 2) the claims and their support, especially the integration of quotations, and 3) the overall organization of the paper. Does travel influence what's good to eat and bad to eat? Every culture has food taboos. Some, of course, have more than others. Asian countries such as China, Japan, and Thailand, for example, tend to have a more diverse cultural diet than do European countries. I conducted a survey to see how a country's food taboos correlate with the personal eating habits of those who have traveled there. I found that people who have traveled to Asian countries tend to have less food taboos than do those who have traveled to Europe. In fact, people who have traveled to Asia often could not cite one food that they refuse to eat. Everyone who has been to Europe on the other hand, could name at least one food that they personally consider to be inedible. I believe that the reason for this disparity can be found in the economic differences between the East and the West, and also, in the personal reasons people have for traveling to either Europe or Asia. Southeast Asians lack specific food types they refuse to eat. Besides the more conventional meats, i.e., beef, pork...
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...Informational Essay: Bugs What if in the future you were dining in a restaurant and the specialty was an bug ice cream or steak and bug.Bugs are the next big thing in the media right now, bugs are good for you and your health, bugs give you protein and bugs also release less greenhouse gases than cows, pigs, and chickens, also the world throws away more stuff on cows, chickens, and pigs, then we do on bugs, there are also over 1,900 edible bugs in the world. We can address that bugs provide us with the amount of protein that animals do, also we can talk about how bugs release less greenhouse gases, we also can address how bugs might be able to solve obesity and other world problems. Bugs might be able to solve world hunger. “There’s no denying that the population will grow” our population is growing minute by minute that means the world is getting bigger and our food source is getting probably about in 100 years there would probably be no more meat,chicken,or pigs left that means if there’s no more of our main food sources left than we most likely are gonna lack the amount of protein that we need which means less carbon dioxide in the air, this shows that bugs are good for you that doesn’t mean that you have to drop...
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...Meat Consumption and Vegetarian People should eat less meat or become vegetarian? Steven Zhou Royal Roads University Marianne Kettlewell November 26, 2015 Meat Consumption and Vegetarian People should eat less meat or become vegetarian? Throughout human history, it is clear that carnivores have dominated food culture since Primitive Society. Meat has been maintaining the development in human beings for thousands of years. Unexpectedly, as time has gone by, the meat industry has caused major environmental and health problems. For instance, livestock is now responsible for 51% of the world's total greenhouse gas emissions, which negatively affects the environment. Eating lots of meats could also adversely affect health, leading to many illnesses like Hypertension and Hyperlipidemia. Therefore, some people think we should eat less meat or become vegetarian. Despite these strong arguments, personally, I do not agree with this opinion, for reasons outlined below. From a perspective of health, a vegan diet is harmful to the nutritional balance, for instance, vegetarians are short of protein and calcium. Meat, such as beef, has abundant protein, six ounces of lean, chuck beef, braised contains 49.2 grams of protein, 505 calories and 32.59 grams of fat (Dr. Decuypere's Nutrient Charts). What is protein? Protein is a nutrient that the body needs to grow and maintain itself. Next to water, protein is the most plentiful substance in our bodies. In other words, protein plays...
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...A diet that excludes all animal products have some nutritional drawbacks. Key nutrients like calcium, omega-3 fatty acids, vitamin B-12 and folate are found in meat are dairy. Key nutrients that a vegan diet can lack. Inadequate consumption of these nutrients can result in problems like loss of bone and muscle mass. Vitamin B-12 helps run a smooth central nervous system and optimizes functions. Consequently, a reduced or even non-existent level of vitamin B-12 may cause a person to feel weak, fatigue, constipation, and lack of appetite. Fortunately there are alternative sources of B1-2 and other important nutrients. Vitamin B-12 is present in fortified foods, including cereals and plant milk, in tofu and in nutritional yeast. In the same way, protein can be found in pulses and in other alternative forms. Pulses such as dried peas, kidney beans, fava beans, black beans and adzuki beans contain all the essential amino acids we require. While meat and eggs are complete proteins, and beans and nuts aren't, humans don’t need every essential amino acid in every bite of food in every meal. Dietitians believe we only need a sufficient amount of each amino acid every...
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...similarities between vegans and vegetarians. In fact, these similarities far outweigh the diet differences. Health benefits and motivations for vegan and vegetarian diets are very similar, with only minor differences in eating habits distinguishing the two. Vegetarians are people who do not eat meat but will eat dairy; unlike vegans, who do not eat meat, including dairy products, as well as eggs. This essay will compare and contrast the similarities between vegetarian and vegan diets. Although there are minor differences in terms of dietary choices, there are far more similarities with regards to ideals and health benefits. This essay lists the health benefits existing in both vegetarian and vegan diets and also the reasons many people choose one of the two diets. The essay also reminds readers that vegans and vegetarians are different, as their eating habits vary slightly. The reasons behind a vegetarian or vegan diet are different for each and every person. However, a general study of people who choose this type of lifestyle would create a very similar list. Some people choose to become vegetarian or vegan in order to help animals and support animal rights, whereas others choose a meat-free diet in order to protect their health and ensure a longer life, free of harmful chemicals and hormones. Others choose vegetarianism or veganism in order to fulfill cultural or religious beliefs, while still others choose one of these diets in order to help the environment. After all, cows...
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...Michael Pollan, American author and environmental activist, discusses the reasons why people do not take measures to live environmentally-friendly and why it is important that our society begins to do so in his essay, “Why Bother?” His title concisely states why many people do not make an effort to make their habits and daily routines more friendly to the environment and eco-footprints smaller. He suggests that it is everyone’s responsibility to make changes to their daily lives, and that the way to do this is to begin by planting a garden in their backyards. Pollan also insists throughout his writing that “to wait for legislation or technology to solve the problem of how we’re living our lives suggests we’re not really serious about changing”...
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...Kevin DeArmon Prof. Wright English 1020 22 April 2014 Milk or Meat and Their Pros and Cons There are many different drinks and different types of food in the world to consume. Water, soda, coffee, tea, juice, alcohol, or milk are some of the main choices of drinks and when it comes to food, there are just too many to list. With all the options of food and drinks, there is a lot of controversy when it comes to what is healthy for the human body to consume. There is some proven health benefits and many theories. There are also a lot of claims of negative health effects. This also goes for milk and meat. Milk does a body good, is the saying that’s been around for years, but is it? People eat and drink every day without someone thinking about if what they are ingesting is actually good for their bodies or just filling that empty stomach, which could have negative long term effects. Milk and meat have more positive effects on the human body than negative. In this essay is stated four essays on the pros and cons of drinking milk and eating meat and how the all the authors have convincing arguments In the article, Health Benefits of Milk, the author begins by explaining the bone health milk produces with being enriched with calcium, phosphorous, magnesium, and protein, which are all essential for healthy bone growth. The author lists the known facts that have been proven over time. The author also explains the benefit milk has on the teeth. “The amounts of calcium and phosphorous...
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...This essay is aimed at the discussing an interaction or event I encountered with a client in my work practice in which demonstrated understanding of culture as an aspect of care delivery. The name of the patient will be fictional so as to protect issues of confidentiality as per the NMC code of practice 2008. Shiang et al (1998) cited in Mio and Iwamasa (2003) p.311 defined culture as a shared belief system, a set of values ,… symbols as well as preferred ways of behaving. Holland and Hogg (2010), p4 cited different definitions of culture and come in agreement that culture is an inherited or learned set of guidelines through which we come to know how to live in a social group or within society. Culture is the characteristics of a particular group of people, defined by everything from language, religion, cuisine, social habits. Whereas ………………………………….defines culture as highlights the important aspects of culture being …………………………. The interaction of this essay is about my approached to Ahmed (not real name) who from my observation was putting on a lot of weight than necessities nursing interventions to help him manage his weight in addition; Ahmed has always been a practising Muslim with a strict religious diet but due to deterioration in his mental state, he had abounded his Halal diet and started even consuming pork products: hence my intervention. It is important to help Muslim patients maintain a Halal diet; according to (Holland and Hogg 2010) if Halal meat cannot...
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