...Is It Ethical to Eat Meat? Companies use commercials to persuade customers to buy their products over any other. Advertisements are not just meant to sell the products. They make the audience feel happiness, guilt, fear, and so on- feelings that structure the way customers interpret the advertisement. Companies use different ways to persuade the customers to buy their products such as, casting celebrities and using profound slogans. Humans have consumed meat products since early ages and it still continues. PETA, an organization to serve animal rights and freedom, is making an ethical appeal to persuade the consumer that eating meat is reprehensible. At First, the most eye-catching segment of the advertisement is “Eating Meat is a Sin”, written in the bold green font. PETA is extending their sentiment that humans have no right to take speechless animal’s life and consume their flesh as food. As a result, PETA is trying to make people feel guilty by spreading one of their primary...
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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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...Sitting down, friends and family all around, scents of grease and salt encaptures each soul at the table. Plates clink as they are set down and blood spills from the meat-filled entrees. In front of one lonely soul sits a singular salad, a disappointing garden blend of lettuce that only belongs in a taco and one lonely tomato. “That’s what you’re eating?” “Aren’t you sick of salad?” “Where’s the meat on that thing?” Typical questions and a boring meal every vegetarian, vegan, or gluten-free person becomes bombarded with at any restaurant or family meal. When eating at either a school event or even a typical restaurant, choosing an entree becomes an almost impossible choice, every item on the menu is engulfed with meat or gluten except a simple...
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...Best Buffalo Bison Ranch About this Sample Entrepreneur Business Plan: The following sample NxLeveL Entrepreneur Business Plan was originally written by a class participant, and subsequently modified to protect proprietary information. As it is primarily a student’s work, it is not represented to be a “perfect” business plan, although the presentation is in keeping with the NxLeveL format and content. It can be used as a sample of what a business plan might contain, and as a model for constructing the various sections. Your instructor may ask that you review certain sections and suggest improvements, modifications or additions. The purpose of each individual business plan may be different, with varied intended readers. You may also be asked to discuss what information might need to be included or deleted based on the purpose of the plan. NxLeveL Entrepreneur Sample Business Plan Best Buffalo Bison Ranch – June 2001 Table of Contents Section Page Section I: Executive Summary 3 Section II: Mission, Goals, & Objectives 4 General Description of Business Mission Statement Goals and Objectives Section III: Background Information 6 Background Industry Information Current and Future Trends Business Fit in the Industry Section IV: Organizational Matters 9 A. Ownership, Regulations, and Contracts 9 B. Management Issues 10 Section V: The Marketing Plan 14 A. The Products and Services 14 B. The Market Analysis 17 C. Marketing Strategies 22 Section VI: The...
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...in-vitro meat products. This new break through technology could bring the end of your tradition cattle or any type of meat raised mammal farm. in-vitro Meat is the new upcoming trend that will be hitting the science labs rather than the fields across America. This artificial meat will revolutionize the food industry; the future flesh will be scientifically created and can produce a variety of meats. This biological creation will be a mere cloning process mass-producing food at a more efficient and environmentally friendly way. Although people at first are generally against artificially made food, the prices will be too hard to pass up with the increase in population making the meat industry sky rocket causing the price of your everyday meats to do the same. This new technology will change the way America goes about getting their daily value of protein. The advantage of in-vitro meat significantly out weights its disadvantages. One of the main one that catches the eye of researcher is the amount of land we will have saved. Hank Hyena of H+ Magazine describes how in-vitro meat will change the structure of America for the good. As in-vitro meat becomes more scientifically sound it will be sustainably cheaper then the slow-grown red meat and poultry marketplace. The prices of real meat and poultry are expected to reach two trillion dollars by the year 2050. Scientist working on meat assured by that time that it would cost half of that to run the artificially grown in-vitro meat saving...
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...Why Eat Meat Matt Moffa DeVry University Why Eat Meat Think of it this way, if everyone turned vegan or vegetarian eventually there will be no fertilizer and then eventually no plants. If we were all vegetarians we would have to turn all our livestock covered farm land into edible plant fields, which means no livestock and therefore no fertilizer. Then we would have to invent some kind of chemical fertilizer to fertilize the fields, but then wouldn’t that being hypocritical? People should eat meat because it is healthy to eat meat and there is a good meat. People need to eat meat because eating meat is healthy for the body. The human body gets many consumption of meat that fruits and vegetables cannot give them. Many vegetarians or vegans could argue that you can substitute those nutrients with pills. This is a viable argument, but how do you think they created those pills? Most vegetarians would say that eating a vegetarian diet is healthier then eating any meat. Well how much healthier is it really? Beef, chicken and fish are all extremely high in protein. This protein, which is not found in plants, is said to improve the overall health of the body, repair and building of tissues, the production of anti-bodies used to strengthen the immune system and contains all the essential amino acids. Other nutrients found in meat are iron, zinc and selenium. Iron helps in forming hemoglobin that transports oxygen to different...
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...The End of Meat Consumption By Raquel de Oliveira Barra Over the past two decades, food demand grew consistently with the growth of population. So did the production of food, leading to a continuous decline in global prices. But since 2004, the demand started to overcome the food production increase, and prices have been rising ever since. The situation grew to unprecedented levels in the international grain markets, resulting in panic, volatility, and speculation. At the same time, meat producers were pushed to produce more, faster and cheaper to address the increasing demand. Researchers see a collision ahead between an increasing population demanding high-quality food, and the resources available. This can result in incentives for producers to increase quantities by lowering the food quality, deriving in malnutrition and diseases. Behind cheap meat On average, it takes 3kg of grain and 16.000 liters of water to produce 1kg of meat. In addition to that, currently 33% of the cropland area is used for meat production. Therefore, a growing demand for meat results on the need to allocate more grain, water and land resources to produce it. Or maybe not? Over the last decades we have witnessed an increase in the development and use of artificial or waste-based feed products, genetic engineering, and chemical additives to produce more and faster. While “industrial” livestock production supports the rising meat consumption on a world scale, it brings in parallel an increase...
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...October 11, 2009 The Food Issue Against Meat By JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER THE FRUITS OF FAMILY TREES When I was young, I would often spend the weekend at my grandmother’s house. On my way in, Friday night, she would lift me from the ground in one of her fire-smothering hugs. And on the way out, Sunday afternoon, I was again taken into the air. It wasn’t until years later that I realized she was weighing me. My grandmother survived World War II barefoot, scavenging Eastern Europe for other people’s inedibles: rotting potatoes, discarded scraps of meat, skins and the bits that clung to bones and pits. So she never cared if I colored outside the lines, as long as I cut coupons along the dashes. I remember hotel buffets: while the rest of us erected Golden Calves of breakfast, she would make sandwich upon sandwich to swaddle in napkins and stash in her bag for lunch. It was my grandmother who taught me that one tea bag makes as many cups of tea as you’re serving, and that every part of the apple is edible. Her obsession with food wasn’t an obsession with money. (Many of those coupons I clipped were for foods she would never buy.) Her obsession wasn’t with health. (She would beg me to drink Coke.) My grandmother never set a place for herself at family dinners. Even when there was nothing more to be done — no soup bowls to be topped off, no pots to be stirred or ovens checked — she stayed in the kitchen, like a vigilant guard (or prisoner) in a tower. As far as I could tell,...
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...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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...Eating meat has become a ritual since mankind was created. Hunting to survive and to feed, or in other words our ‘survival instinct’ is one of the few traces that our ancestors have left the modern mankind today. Although mankind are not carnivores per say, we have evolved into thinking so. The majority of us have been brought up eating meat and presumably, have never questioned it. Taking these into account, how ethical is meat eating? One can argue that non-human animals also have the same rights and killing them for food and using them as a mean to human gratification, does not treat them respectfully. The fact that one has been raised to eat meat is cannot be an explanation of why mankind started eating meat and it cannot justify the claim that eating meat is ethical. Yet most of us have no idea that when we eat meat, we are in fact making a subconscious choice. When we were growing up, forming our identity and values, it is fair to say that generally our parents decide on whether we eat meat or not and opposed to making our own choice. We were never asked to reflect upon this daily practice that has such profound unethical dimensions and personal implications. Eating animals were just a given; it was just the way things were. However, this kind of argument allows us to eat human flesh all that required is that one is raised in a cannibalistic tradition, because then we can say that ‘this is the way that things are! But what if in a culture eating human was ethically...
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...Running Head: IN NEED OF REFORM The Meat Processing Industry: In Need of Reform Taylor Purucker Niles High School The Meat Processing Industry: In Need of Reform Every day, animals are sent to slaughterhouses to be processed. Packaged meats are shipped from slaughterhouses to various supermarkets, where consumers purchase it fresh, or frozen. Buyers cannot tell whether or not the meat its safe to eat; they rely on US Department of Agriculture (USDA) regulations. However, Sustainable Table says in their forum, Food Safety, “...76 million Americans suffer from food poisoning each year, causing 325,000 hospitalizations, and 5,000 deaths” (2009). Interests raise questions whether or not the USDA regulations are strictly enforced. It seems hard to believe since contaminated meat is the main cause for food-born illnesses. The recurrence of sanitary violations isn't the only dilemma; worker safety and animal health is also a problem. Workers are injured during the rapid process of processing animals; slaughterhouses process more animals an hour because of new technology. Animal's health becomes very poor after beatings and lack of nutrition. Robert Longley expresses in his report, USDA Weak in Enforcing Slaughterhouse Rules: GAO on About.com that, “GAO reported that a study of reports of actual cases of noncompliance at slaughter plants revealed 'several' incidents in which inspectors failed to stop plant operations as required by...
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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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...Brittney DeBaugh Scales Ethics May 13, 2013 Is Eating Meat Morally Permissible? It has been argued that meat has high sources of energy, minerals, and proteins in the human diet. It is rich in proteins which have shown to have a high energy unit as compared to other food types. Proponents of meat consumption support its consumption as it has a greater nutritional value and is good to the test buds. Apart from the nutritional reasons, it is also thought meat consumption maintains the ecosystem at equilibrium. If meat consumption was to stop, it is thought that animals like cattle, sheep, goats and poultry will multiply to levels that are ecological disastrous. As most of these animals are herbivorous, their uncontrolled increase would exert extreme pressure on vegetation. This may cause wanton destruction to vegetation that may destabilize the ecosystem. In as much as these arguments appear logical and plausible, they still do not give any moral permissibility of eating meat. Just like any reason in support of unacceptable practice, proponents of eating meat do not give any solid ethical justification why humans should continue killing animals to please their test buds. There is no moral justification whatsoever to rationalize the eating of meat. Meat is said to contain some very essential nutrients that may not be found in plants and vegetable. This is however no moral justification of killing animals to obtain meat yet there are more reliable sources of proteins and vitamins...
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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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...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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