Vegetarianism and veganism is becoming a new social topic that is causing many people to rethink not only their eating habits, but what products have animal products in them. Gary Steiner, a professor whose most recent work discusses people’s relationship with animals, has an article called ‘’Animal, Vegetable, Miserable’’ is illuminating readers’ view about the ethics of eating meat, the benefits of veganism and he also talks about the treatment of nonhuman animals. However, there were many responses to Steiner’s point, including people who agreed with him, and people who disagreed with him on his view of the treatment of animals as well as the eating of meat. Steiner’s article raises questions about the moral codes regarding animals, including
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In other words, people have found excuses for eating animals. For one, people have ate and used animals products since the beginning of time. Humans have had to use animals in order to survive. However, one opponent of Steiner replies by saying ‘’Humans can acceptably consume animals precisely because we are not superior to them at all…We are animals ourselves- and are no more (or less) than the animals we consume, or than the predators that would otherwise consume them.’’ (L. David Peters 851).
That is, humans are animals themselves. People work in factories that produce animal-based products, but ‘’Wolves eat sheep’’ (851). Animals consume each other in order to survive and evolve. For example, when a snake eats a mouse, the snake does so in order to receive nutrition. Humans eat cows for nutrition just like the snake eats the mouse to live. To vegans, eating animals might seem like a selfish act to do, but to most of humanity, eating animals is what brought people from the caveman age to present day. Furthermore, Steiner brought up a point that makes readers contemplate whether the reasons for humans to consume animals is …show more content…
Humanity has counted on animal products in order to thrive; after all, it is tradition to use animal products throughout life because it has been apart of people's’ lives for so long. Nonetheless, Steiner is opposed to this type of thought, and he begins with saying,
’’We have been trained by a history of thinking of which we are scarcely aware to view non-human animals as resources we are entitled to employ in whatever ways we see fit in order to satisfy our needs and desires.’’ (848).
Basically, Steiner is presenting to readers that animals (and animal products) have been used for people to survive. Even Native Americans used everything on the animal they killed as a resource or tool for their lives. Steiner makes a good point because humans have used animals in order to live, but all the same, one of the opponents replied saying, ‘’our food animals have co-evolved with us. Cows, domestic sheep, chickens, and many others would not survive if they were not raised for human consumption, protected from malnutrition, disease, and predators.’’ (Lawrence S. Lerner
In other words, people have found excuses for eating animals. For one, people have ate and used animals products since the beginning of time. Humans have had to use animals in order to survive. However, one opponent of Steiner replies by saying ‘’Humans can acceptably consume animals precisely because we are not superior to them at all…We are animals ourselves- and are no more (or less) than the animals we consume, or than the predators that would otherwise consume them.’’ (L. David Peters 851).
That is, humans are animals themselves. People work in factories that produce animal-based products, but ‘’Wolves eat sheep’’ (851). Animals consume each other in order to survive and evolve. For example, when a snake eats a mouse, the snake does so in order to receive nutrition. Humans eat cows for nutrition just like the snake eats the mouse to live. To vegans, eating animals might seem like a selfish act to do, but to most of humanity, eating animals is what brought people from the caveman age to present day. Furthermore, Steiner brought up a point that makes readers contemplate whether the reasons for humans to consume animals is …show more content…
Humanity has counted on animal products in order to thrive; after all, it is tradition to use animal products throughout life because it has been apart of people's’ lives for so long. Nonetheless, Steiner is opposed to this type of thought, and he begins with saying,
’’We have been trained by a history of thinking of which we are scarcely aware to view non-human animals as resources we are entitled to employ in whatever ways we see fit in order to satisfy our needs and desires.’’ (848).
Basically, Steiner is presenting to readers that animals (and animal products) have been used for people to survive. Even Native Americans used everything on the animal they killed as a resource or tool for their lives. Steiner makes a good point because humans have used animals in order to live, but all the same, one of the opponents replied saying, ‘’our food animals have co-evolved with us. Cows, domestic sheep, chickens, and many others would not survive if they were not raised for human consumption, protected from malnutrition, disease, and predators.’’ (Lawrence S. Lerner