Bullies For Animals And The Environment

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Register to read the introduction… Animals have many morals that are being completely violated; people are violating the main rights of life, that every-being has a right to live a life free from suffering and pain and this raises a larger issue to which comes the conception of Mills mentioning what is the sociological imagination, to take action, to always keep in mind there are millions of people in the world but we are one. Anything we want to complete we can,and anything we do, will have a cause. We do not think of the process of how animals were killed, or how the animals are raised, or how much the meat industries consumes of the world in order for a dinner plate. Meat industries contribute to global warming. This is killing not only the animals but nature, and this is also a cause of all the natural disasters as well. ¹ 2006 report by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), our diets and, specifically, the meat in them cause more greenhouse gases carbon dioxide (CO2), methane, nitrous oxide, and the like to spew into the atmosphere than either transportation or industry. (Greenhouse gases trap solar energy, thereby warming the earth's surface. Because gases vary in greenhouse potency, every greenhouse gas is usually expressed as an amount of CO2 with the same global-warming potential.) ¹ The United Nations has proven on how the industry has affected the world and in what we live in. This is how I became more educated on the issue of Animal Welfare-Right. We should choose cruelty free (free range) animal products rather from the ones from the meat industries. Or choose a diet with no animal products. According to the American Heart Association people who consume meat are most likely to suffer from heart disease and suffer a heart attack. This is another example of what animals contribute to us and what we contribute to the …show more content…
This capitalist society has affected me and I do not prefer this government but I live in it and make it bigger, because I enjoy shopping and making money. We are all connected everything. We are affected to everything, and everything is affected by us. When there is something that you do not enjoy you have the power to shift it if you want. We all behold that power because we are part of the system. We are the system.

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