The Importance Of Eating Meat

If there was a way to help improve the world would you do it? Cutting meat from your diet and becoming vegan or vegetarian will improve the world. There are a lot of people who eating animals throughout the world but different ways. In some countries people eat dog, horse, and other animals that in the U.S would be considered horrible. There are some places that sacrifice animals, slitting the throats performing rituals with the blood while other certain animals such a degree that they allow, for example, cows to stop traffic.( Delacorte Press) Depending on which country you grew up in, which religion or which culture, your response will be different. If you are from U.S and you hear of eating dog you might want to vomit. If you are Hindu in India you might be heartbreaking to see us eating so many beef burger in the U.S. The very Idea in some places people believe certain animals can be eaten and another not, proves that meat eating is “ social construct”. By social construct I mean to imply that eating meat, eating certain animals, is just a concept people created and one that is not consistent from …show more content…
It is not the image of farmer and his family raising a cow killing it and selling it at auction. It is instead an “industry” that works like machine. The people who raise the cows and other animals pump them full of many chemicals and actual medicals such as antibiotics that will get the must meat after slaughter. Many of these chemicals are then ingested by the human which we will discuss later when we will talk about health but many of the chemicals also go into the soil of the earth. When a large number of pigs for example are housed together their waste product full of such chemicals are spilling into nearby farms and into the water supplies other human living nearby. Often the chemicals mixed manure kills fish and other creatures in the water supplies