Persuasive Essay On Eating Meat

Many of us go day to day eating foods without completely realizing where it’s coming from. We do not consider what are foods actually looked like before they were presented to us on our plates. The majority of people would not be able to personally kill an animal to get the meat they provide to us for the fact that they themselves would be taking an organism’s life. Even when individuals are going out to the grocery store, many get skirmish when seeing the jars of pigs feet or the fish that is still have their eyeballs. When first telling children that the meat they are eating came from those sweet farm animals they see in books, they often are shocked that poor Wilbur is on their plate. Some get so upset by that fact that getting them to …show more content…
The vegan diet is often recommended as dietary therapy for heart disease, high cholesterol, diabetes, strokes, and many other health problems, like asthma and depression.2 It has also been used to help with obesity, which is also a cause of many health problems. Even though, there are some vitamins and minerals that are not found in plants, there are always supplements that can be taken to prevent a deficiency in the body. Plant based foods could also be fortified2, which means those foods would be added with some vitamins and/or minerals to help with the absence of them in plants originally. Despite the mineral calcium and vitamin D being found in some plants, many still believe that drinking milk is a better option for obtaining vitamin D and calcium to prevent bone damage. In the article “Diet-Diary: Rethinking Calcium-Osteoporosis Beliefs,” Ishi Khosla explains that having an excessive intake of calcium could actually be causing bones to be weaker.6 Also, Khosla states that in Asian countries, where calcium intake is overall low, there are the least amount of bone fractures there.6 Again, there are some people whose ancestor’s diet contained more meat, but there are also those who would be able to make the switch and not be as affected by it because their ancestor’s diet was centered around plants.5 People should learn about what genetica makeup they have in order to properly construct a vegan diet plan. Overall, the veganism diet is majorly beneficial to one’s health; and where it lacks with proper nutrition, it is easily made up with other ways of obtaining those nutrients. It is not only good for an individual’s health, but it is also good for the environment and other animal’s well