The Mindful Carnivore Critical Analysis

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As much as the world has been in a relapsed denial, we are entering a time where the matter of opinion is held high above all of our heads and the thin string that is keeping it there is being stretched by the amount of people that feel obligated to reprimand on behalf of their opinions. On one end, this seems like an overly complex way for someone to negotiate the bitter truth that everyone is going to battle their rights to agree or disagree with a bigger picture. What is lost is our ability to choose difference for its viable outcomes while also choosing our preferred moral stance. With that being said, this time that we are entering has brought a bounty of different topics that are controversial to a broad grouping of people. Some of these topics include differences between political views, financial instability, infrastructure corruption, and more. While these classifications are set on a large scale, there is one topic that has stretched itself over a multi- faceted dynamic that includes environmental degradation, moral imbalance and purposeful system of ethics.

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