...whales were regarded as a valuable resource and were hunted the world over for their blubber and meat by people. The oil derived from their blubber was used to light homes and streets as well as manufacture soap, cosmetics and other everyday commodities. And as for their meat? A single catch of a large sperm whale could feed a small coastal village for weeks. Although demand for whale meat is ailing and advancements in technology have replaced whale oil with more effective and practical substances, whales are still being hunted and killed. Despite a ban on all commercial whaling certain nations still continue to kill these animals, primarily Japan, Norway and Iceland. The populations of these animals are becoming...
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...Holy Cow! In today’s world the issue of meat eating raises a lot of controversial questions. Many people believe that human intelligence should guide us to forbid from killing animals. This belief is far from my opinion. I was raised in an omnivore family. My father eats over five kilograms of meat every day. He’s strong and healthy. I find it funny how depressed he sometimes gets when he comes home from work and sees that mom made a soup for dinner. It seems like he’s closer to the primitive caveman than any modern human can still be, and this leads me to think that forbidding of meat eating is just as unethical as, some may think, eating it is. Humans are carnivores designed to eat meat. The evidence of thorough research proves that the human body is more of the carnivore than herbivore. The length of our digestive tract is similar to carnivores’. Our stomachs produce hydrochloric acid that breaks down a variety of food by activating protein-splitting enzymes. The HCL is nowhere to be found in herbivores’ organisms. Also, the presence of the multiple stomachs declares a tremendous difference between us and herbivores. These few and a lot more differences destroy the popular claim that people should follow a non-meat diet. The answer to what we should eat is deeply encoded in the structure of our bodies (Comparison Between). The studies also show that going back to Stone Age nutritional habits can be very beneficial. Dr. Staffan Lindeberg, an expert in this field, proved...
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...institute in the Netherlands, turned them into strips of muscle that they combined to make a patty. One food expert said it was "close to meat, but not that juicy" and another said it tasted like a real burger. Researchers say the technology could be a sustainable way of meeting what they say is a growing demand for meat. The burger was cooked by chef Richard McGeown, from Cornwall, and tasted by food critics Hanni Ruetzler and Josh Schonwald. Continue reading the main story Analysis image of Pallab Ghosh Pallab Ghosh Science correspondent, BBC News The world's population is continuing to increase and an ever greater proportion want to eat meat. To meet that demand farmers will need to use more energy, water and land - and the consequent increase in greenhouse gas emission will be substantial. The plan for lab-grown burgers has won support from some animal welfare and vegetarian groups, who feel it addresses their concerns about animal suffering. But critics say technological fixes, whether it is lab-grown meat or GM crops address the symptoms rather than the causes of world hunger. What is needed, they say, are policies that enable more farmers to produce more food more efficiently and to distribute it more equitably. And then of course there is the taste. Even those behind the stem cell project agree that the meat grown will never taste as good as that from an animal. But as prices rise, environmental pressures grow and concerns over animal welfare increase...
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...many on global warming. It raised public awareness of this issue. We are now facing global warming. Due to different human activities, the world today endures devastating natural changes and disasters. Average temperature of each year is increasing time by time. Glaciers and ice sheets all around the world are slowly melting and collapsing. Many places are slowly being covered by water. Typhoons are getting stronger and more ravaging. Vectors increase their range that then result into the creation of new harmful and deadly diseases. These are all occurring because of the increase of greenhouse gases specially carbon dioxide in the atmosphere due to our actions. If we continue these actions (burning of garbage like plastics and fossil fuels, usage of fuel-powered vehicles, running of factories, etc.), our earth will suffer greatly. We will experience drought and water shortage. Temperature will increase day by day. These are just some. All of us will suffer from the consequences of our actions. True data was given - data that states all of the harmful effects of global warming to different parts of the world. Is that not enough for you to change? Is seeing and hearing all of these heart-touching and tear-dropping instances enough for you to change? We must act and take a stand. We must help each other and take our parts in saving the world. Let us reduce the production of greenhouse gases. How? Let us learn to recycle. Let us avoid burning our daily wastes. Let us create a pit...
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...eat meat or fish, and sometimes other animal products. In most cases people become vegetarians because of: moral, religious, or health reasons. Usually people become vegetarians above the age of 20, this is when you realise and take interest what goes into your body and how it can affect you. Some people are born into vegetarianism because of religious reasons or family preferences. In a religious point of view, most people think that it is unfair to take the life of a living thing and eat the flesh of it. In my opinion I think that, everyone should become a vegetarian and not slaughter them for the satisfaction of the taste of their flesh on their mouth. They are loving things too, most animals do not even feel the sunlight and the grass on their bodies until they are taken out of the rows of their animal and are taken to the slaughter house. Over 56 billion farmed animals are killed every year by humans. More than 3,000 animals die every second in slaughterhouses around the world. These shocking figures do not even include fish and other sea creatures whose deaths are so great they are only measured in tonnes. There are many advantages to your life and the world around you if everyone becomes a vegetarian, some of which follow: Becoming a vegetarian means less environmental problems. The evidence of a USA report "one of the ... most significant contributors to the most serious environmental problems, at every scale from local to global." In just one example, eating meat causes...
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...Has there ever been a time in your life were you question if your truly right minded by eating and/or enjoying meat? Knowing that you have contributed to the slaughter of an innocent animal all because of your self-centered desires? Then your most likely a righteous person.I know i've certainly asked the question before,but what is truly the best answer? In my opinion the best choice is that eating meat is totally ethical. First of all,eating meat is very common in nature,it's seen just about everywhere.Creatures that eat meat,carnivores,have the raw instinct to eat other animals.These creatures include coyotes,ferrets,weasels,lions,bobcats,hyenas and many other species.Some of which eat the exact same things we eat,for example,wolves and grizzly bears eat cows and chickens are eaten by bobcats,raccoons and foxes.Although animals do eat other animals it doesn't humans should do the same.People have demonstrated that you can live a life without eating meat but it isn't as easy and effective as just killing another animal to survive.Also,some people physically can't find any other sources of protein in places that are destitute or poverty ridden so sometimes the only option is feeding off animals....
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...You Are What You Eat Linand Blanc Professor Pamella Robinson Principles of Sociology 7/30/2011 Abstract Some may think that carrots and brown rice are healthy eating habits here in the United States. However there are some places in the world including the US where toasted insects, roasted cat and dogs, and even raw monkey brains are a delicacy. Whether you yourself would eat these types of food or not, we know that humans have been consuming cats dogs and yes even monkeys for decades. But my question is why did they find the need to eat these types of meats? Were beef, chicken, fish and pork not enough? Or maybe we’re the ones who don’t know what delicacy eating really is. Maybe we shouldn’t have such a closed mind to eating cats and dogs. Maybe by the end of this week I will be one that becomes an Entomophily. The Holy Bible goes into great details on what we can and cannot eat. The dietary laws prohibit eating pork, shrimp, and shellfish of any kind, most insects, scavenger birds, and various types of other animals. (Leviticus chapter 11) Although the Bible doesn’t say anything about the domestic animals such as cats and dogs but many religions consider the consumption of these animals to be taboo. In some parts of the word others have resorted to eating felines and k-9’s in desperation during hard times and poverty, and others believe that eating them will bring good luck or good health. Cats and Dogs In North China eating cats is considered...
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...common and accepted by mainstream society. While there are many reasons for choosing a vegetarian diet, I’ll tell you the most important ones. Throughout the course of this presentation, we will see the personal health advantages of becoming a vegetarian, our ability to prevent animal cruelty, and the benefits to the environment and the world. Impact of the Topic and Speech: I hope that my speech will give you some thoughts to think and questions to ask. So if you have any, you may ask them after my talk. Transition: First, let’s examine the health benefits of becoming a vegetarian [BODY] I. Becoming a vegetarian has substantial health benefits. HEART DISEASE RISK Vegetarians have a lower chance of developing heart disease than meat-eaters, according to a study published in the journal "Public Health Nutrition." This large-scale study was undertaken by researchers of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund in Oxford, England, and studied a total of 76,172 women and men living in the United Kingdom, United States and Germany. Overall, vegetarians were found to have a 24 percent lower risk of dying from ischemic heart disease than those who ate meat OBESITY According to Mayo Clinic dietitian Katherine Zeratsky, “On average, people who follow a vegetarian diet eat fewer calories and less fat than nonvegetarians. Vegetarians also tend to have lower body weight than non-vegetarians.” As you can see, vegetarians have much less chances of...
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... | |BruceSedlak | |GE-117 | | | | | There you are, sinking into your bean bag chair, channel surfing with one hand down your boxers. It’s the middle of the week and you haven’t showered in three days. You’re scarfing down the last crumbs of your sixth bag of Cheetos, when you come across the Food Channel’s coverage of a guy with an outdoor kitchen broiling up a bacon cheddar cheese burger. With that, he has corn on the cob that’s still in the husk, and is about to show you how to cook it on the grill, saying that this is how you make good barbeque. WRONG! The terms barbeque and grilling have somehow become interchangeable phrases. There is a difference. The definition of barbeque varies by country, by region, and even...
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...farmers suffer the “severe protein shortages” of the past. Those glad tidings overshadowed contemporaneous warnings about bacterial resistance, most notably from a series of Japanese studies. Researchers had found that bacteria repeatedly exposed to antibiotics possessed an uncanny ability to thwart the very drugs designed to kill them. In 1966, the editors of the New England Journal of Medicine warned that if humanity continued to ignore the reality of bacterial “resistance,” they would “find themselves back in the preantibiotic Middle Ages.” It wasn’t until the early 1970s that some Americans began lobbying to ban antibiotics from the farm, arguing that feeding animals “sub-therapeutic” doses of antibiotics fostered bacterial resistance in meat-eating humans. Alas, science being what it is, for every critic who found evidence of links between antibiotic use in livestock production and antibiotic resistance in humans, another whipped out evidence to the contrary. Fast forward to 2013: Scientists are still arguing about the dangers of bacterial resistance and the debate about antibiotics as a feed supplement rages on. What’s missing is the history of why antibiotics arrived on the farm — and why farmers then and now have lobbied to keep them there. #### Understanding that history requires going back to the first two decades of...
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...In today's world there are many issues in need of reformation, one of which is international trade, otherwise known as globalization. Although there are a great deal of rules, regulations, and policies imposed on international trade, the manner in which those rules have been enforced is a major controversy that seems to be escalating day by day. At the center of the controversy is the World Trade Organization (WTO). The WTO was established in 1995 in order to transform the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) into an enforceable global commercial code. Critics of the WTO say that instead of being run democratically and in the interest of member countries, it has become the enforcer of corporate managed trade. A system whose ethics are not in favor of the public interest, instead the focus has shifted to large corporations and making money. Profit is the motivating factor behind decisions made by the WTO. By looking at international trade from the rational perspective, the WTO has not only failed to protect consumers, workers, and the environment, it has also acquired a number of opponents and protestors. Recent issues concerning the WTO include President Clinton's signing of a bill, which grants permanent normal trade relations to China and virtually guarantees them membership into the WTO. Not concerned with China's communist regime that abuses its workers, supporters of the bill call it a "major victory for U.S. companies like Microsoft Corp. and Boeing Co....
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...States, animals such as dogs are treated far better than other animals. The question then arises, why do dogs get treated more diligently while other animals with the same mental capacity get slaughtered and consumed? By looking at "Let Them Eat Dog" by Jonathon Foer, the perception of why one should not think of dogs as superior animals and why the idea of consuming a dog should not be looked down upon in society will be thoroughly analyzed and examined. People in the United States think it’s morally wrong to eat dogs since it is a household pet. The same people who don’t eat dogs, eat other animals such as pigs, chickens, and cows, which is questionable because they still devour animals that are necessary to the environment and society today. In "Let Them Eat Dog" by Jonathon Foer, the author gives logical reasons on why we should eat dog, and why it is not harmful to the society in any manner. It's legal in 44 states to eat dog, and dog meat poses no greater health risk than any other meat. The problem arises is that a dog is labeled as a "man's best friend". Therefore, it is merely wrong to even think of eating a dog in the United States. Because pets such as dogs and cats are considered to be valuable in an average American Household, statistics show that 3 to 4 million dogs and cats get put down every year. Furthermore, the brutal killing of cows and pigs in slaughter houses...
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...For a long time eating meat has been an issue to all sorts of people. It has been controversial throughout different societies over the morality of eating meat from animals. Some countries even have certain animals that are viewed as holy. Clearly there are several different views from people on eating meat and other animal products. Veganism and vegetarianism is slowly emerging as a very distinct culture lead by unique nutritional habits and beliefs. This culture is the best, healthiest way to live your life. By becoming vegan your health will be better, you will be protecting animals, and also save the earth. Becoming vegan will be the best decision you will ever make. Becoming vegan will allow you to live your healthiest life ever. By eliminating meat and animal products you will ultimately rely more on other foods. Replacements can be in the form of whole grains, fruits, vegetable, beans, peas, nuts, and seeds. These foods contribute to a higher daily intake of certain beneficial nutrients. Several studies have reported that vegan diets usually provide more fiber, antioxidants, and beneficial plant compounds. Also when you start a vegan diet you have a natural tendency to reduce your...
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...digestive system. Something so disgusting occurs in the process of making chicken Mcnuggets that you may not want to read on. Ever hear of mechanically separated chicken, if not it is a process in which meat ( in this case what is left on the bones, fat and skin more precisely) is recovered through high pressure through a sieve or similar device to separate the bone from the edible meat tissue (emphasis on "edible" though as the meat you may not want to eat is there but it is able to be eaten).Basically what is being eaten is the scraps or leftover of the meat still on the bones. The next step in the process is when under the high pressure the "meat" is turned into a pink "slime", though unrecognizable it is meat. This process leaves many questions in the minds of consumers as to the fact that sometimes you are eating the edible carcasses of the animal. There is some concern on how it may be related to the "mad cow disease" which occurred in the United Kingdom in 1986 and seeing how the meat is taken off right from the bone and the parts of the cow which had the disease, which could be transferred to humans were from its spinal cord, there was then an added concern among many that the meat would also be taken off from that area. Getting back to McDonald's their mechanically separated meat looks much...
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...Pope John said it best, "Capitalism Without Responsibility" Fast Food's Hidden Dangers Jeffrey Zurlinden, RN, MS | Every day, about one-quarter of American adults eat at fast-food restaurants. Cheap, tasty, and convenient, fast food is loaded with saturated fat and calories, and it's low in fiber and nutrients. Thanks in large part to fast food, half of America's adults and one-quarter of its children are obese, double the rate of a generation ago. Even some popular chicken nuggets, which many consumers consider a healthier alternative, are flavored with beef extract and contain twice as much fat, ounce for ounce, as a ham burger. Besides the long-term health risks of a high-fat, high-calorie diet, fast-food chains have indirectly changed the way cattle are fed, slaughtered, and processed, making meatpacking the most dangerous job in America and increasing the risk of large-scale food poisoning. In his new book, Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal, Eric Schlosser describes fast food's hidden dangers. A Lifetime of Fast Food Although most of the health problems related to fast food aren't felt until middle age -- obesity and diabetes are at an all-time high --- the damage starts before children enter kindergarten. Hoping to shape eating habits, fast-food chains market heavily to children. About 96% of American school-aged children recognize Ronald McDonald, second only to Santa Claus. Almost every American child eats at a McDonald's® at least...
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