...not as civilized as it should be. When looking at it from a moral and religious perspective, humans should treat all animals equally. Statistics have shown that in developed countries such as the United 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...
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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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...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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...consumed meat at least once in our life whether on purpose or on accident. The passage, “Against Meat” by Jonathan Safran Foer, is about how eating meat should give the ability to refrain from eating meat in public and only eat it behind closed doors. The author struggles with the choice of being a meat eater or being a vegetarian. Foer goes back and forth as a vegetarian and a person who eats animals He has had listen to his grandmother’s food which he had loved and decided to become a meat eater. His Grandmother also said that “The fatter a child is, the fitter it is - if it’s a boy. He also claims to be very ignorant about the world and is not actually aware of what he is eating. It was not until the author became a philosopher...
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...A Practical Stand on why it is Okay to Eat Meat. By: Francisco Ron For: Professor Hill January 22, 2012 As humans we recognize that we are at the top of the food chain. There are many contrasting views on the subject if it is morally right to eat animals. Anthropologists discovered that when humans learned how to cook with fire there was a major evolvement in the human brain. By cooking meat from dead animals that were hunted, a viable source of protein was introduced and adapted throughout our history. Obviously humans are so intelligent that we have now created a way to extract protein from other non-animal sources. Is that a justificatory defense not to eat meat? Eating meat is not wrong, but the whole process of how the meat gets to our freezers is not morally right. Animal rightist may say that the meat eaters are involved in speciesism. The discrimination of animals based on the belief that humans are superior. Animal rightist do not eat animals because they are living things and can suffer. Aren’t plants living things? And therefore, they may suffer when killed too. If that was the case, humanity will had starved to death long ago. So why is eating a cow or a chicken so wrong to these people? I would like to believe the reason behind animal rightist not eating meat is on the practice of how the meat is handled. There have been numerous reports about animal abuse and malpractice in farms and slaughter houses. I do not agree on how the cows, pigs, and chickens...
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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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...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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...for food. I eat a lot of meats and processed food mainly because I’m a college student and I can’t afford to eat like I need too. 33% percent of my footprint was used for services. 10% of my footprint went to mobility because I drive a lot. 9% of my footprint went to goods and 5% went to shelter. Because I’m guilty of eating a lot of processed food and meats I know that didn’t help my footprint but I recently stopped purchasing cases of water to cut down on the impact that I have on the use of water bottles and I now use a reusable sports water bottle I purchased a couple months ago, so I know that help my footprint decrease a little. When it comes to the amount of electricity I use, it’s a very large amount. I know that’s a big reason why my footprint is 6.1. These are the reasons why my footprint 6.1. To reduce my footprint the steps I need to take are: reducing the amount of processed foods and meats I eat, investing in a bicycle to cut back on my driving time and unplugging all electronics in my room. When it comes to cutting back on the amount of processed meat I consume I could instead only eat meat twice a week instead of everyday and make sure the proportions I eat are reasonably sized and not too much. I could then purchase a bicycle and instead of driving everywhere I could bike more. In order to improve my footprint these steps are necessary. We all have a social responsible to take care of our environment, and that includes me. I live here, I eat here and I’m...
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...Vegetarianism There are multiple reasons why people choose to become a vegetarians. Many people choose to go vegetarian or vegan for the health benefits, environmental protection and ethical reasons. Therefore vegetarianism is seen by Americans as a healthier, ethical and environmental solution for becoming a vegetarian. There are several different types of vegetarians. Lacto-Ovo Vegetarian: does not eat meat, fish or fowl; eats dairy and egg products. Ovo-Vegetarians: does not eat meat, fish, fowl, or dairy products; eats egg products. Lacto-Vegetarian: does not eat meat, fish, fowl, or eggs; Eat dairy products. Vegan: does not eat any animal products including meat, fish, fowl, eggs, dairy, honey, etc.; most vegans do not use any animal products such as silk, leather, wool, etc. as well. By eliminating meats from your diet you can take a crucial step towards a long life of health and happiness. “This is because a healthy vegetarian diet is typically low in fat and high in fiber. However a vegetarian diet can be high in fats that include an excessive amount of fatty snacks, fried foods, whole milk, dairy products, and eggs. Therefore a vegetarian diet like any other diet must be well planned in order to prevent certain diseases” (Brown Edu). Some of the leading killers in America today, include heart disease, cancer, obesity, and strokes, and they are directly linked to meat-based diets. Heart disease is the number one killer in America, which is caused by a buildup...
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...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, poultry, they also eat dogs, cats, dingoes, and insects. An explanation for this...
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...What's wrong with what we eat? 1. What is the overall message that Mark Bittman is trying to get across in his Ted Talk? Mark Bittman's overall message is to promote and convince people to stop believing what everyone believes about diets and the type of food they consume. People don’t eat real food anymore livestock that is raised industrially is not real food if you have to inject vitamins and steroids to animals to make them grow that is not real food. In today's society there's no family dinner, now we have frozen pizza or some type of frozen food. If you stop eating less meat and more plants we would be able to change the world and also let livestock on its own natural habitat and not raise them in industries. 2....
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...extremely tired from just doing some housework. Being the polite daughter I am I asked her if she also wanted a veggie burger. She snapped and said, "I'll have no energy if I eat that. Why don't you have a piece of veal with me, Emily?". What my mom didn't get was I still had energy;...
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...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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... Imagine a plate of delicious rotten shark meat served in Iceland or a succulent dish of fresh dog meat served at South Korea. Or even better a serving of delicious egg with a veiny, amniotic fluid inside the fetus served over in the Philippines. The worlds are competing in this busy life in order to have a distinct plate of food in order to create demand in order to have a business. Taboo is anything that is seen as unnatural and is not a custom by that society or group. What may seem taboo for one group may not be for another. Food taboos are present in almost every human society, religious or non-religious. A taboo is defined as a social or religious custom prohibiting or restricting a particular practice or forbidding association with a particular person, place, or thing (Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, 2009). Many ask the questions, why these cultures consume such weird stuff? But the reality is that there are many reasons each culture consume what is considered taboo for another group. One of this may be that the culture believes that a specific food may be the answer to health, power or even godly attributes. Methodology This research...
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...substitute products; in food labeled ‘diet’ or ‘sugar free’; drink mixes; low-calorie frozen desserts; chewing gum; Kool-Aid; Jello; and so on What it is: Artificial sweetener Why you should never eat it: Aspartame is a neurotoxin and carcinogen. It is known to erode intelligence, affect short-term memory, cause brain tumours, lymphoma, diabetes, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, emotional disorders (e.g. depression and anxiety attacks), dizziness, headaches, nausea, mental confusion, migraines and seizures. 2. Trans Fat Where it’s commonly found: Margarine; chips and crackers; baked goods; fast foods; fried foods What it is: Trans fat is labelled in the Nutrition Facts on the package. It is essentially a preservative used to extend the shelf life of a product....
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