Gegeitarianism Vs Vegetarianism

Americans today tend to presume true that vegetarianism is the modern diet plan in today’s modern society. Accordingly, this is due to how it has constantly viewed in the media as glamorous and trendy by celebrities alike well known country singer Carrie Underwood, who at the young age of thirteen converted to vegetarianism after realizing what became of the animals in her family farm. However, conventional wisdom has it that one must consume meat or poultry to meet the United States Department of Agriculture’s MyPlate program standard nutritional needs in a well stabilized diet. After all, one of America’s most stereotyped meal is presumed to be a typical cheeseburger. While some meat consumers may not consider the fact that cattle is raised …show more content…
In spite of the fact that the standard way of thinking about vegetarianism has it that this diet plan is not convenient when trying to pursue what the MyPlate program depicts as a healthy diet, while some nutritionists postulate that a vegetarian diet is incompetent at meeting standardized nutritional needs due to the lack of meat consumption in order that is needed to meet such standards. By contrast, I argue that the most convenient way to meet standard protein needs is considered to be the consumption meat or poultry, protein needs can still be met while on a vegetarian diet plan. In the Dr. Milton Mills’ article The Comparative Anatomy of Eating , Mills makes use of statistical evidence to create the argument that humans have evolved anatomy wise, thus concluding that vegetarianism is beneficial to the health of …show more content…
The daily lives of the workers in the meat and poultry industry endure daily abuse by their supervisors along with no compensation to injured employees. According to an anonymous meat worker in North Carolina, “ I just couldn’t take the pain anymore,three times I slipped and fell on the greasy floor, the first time I went to the clinic they told me I just hurt my pride and to go back to work, the last time I fell, the clinic sent me back to work again.” A few days later, a hospital diagnosed this worker with herniated disc, admittedly the meat industry does not take its workers’ health matters into consideration as they should. Moreover, this worker had constantly asked for aid with its supervisors and received no compensation at all for the failure in working conditions that the factory had by not having clean floors while during regular working hours. Nevertheless, both followers and critics of the United States meat and poultry industry will probably dispute my claim of the working conditions in the industry are