Carnivore

You woke up at 5 am this morning to venture off to work for the day. Your back still aches from lifting the cardboard boxes and destroying and rebuilding palettes. You raced to your second job, only to stand on your feet for another 5 hours. As you were sitting in your car on the way home you could barely stay awake, you feel tired and sluggish. The only thing on your mind was sleep and the emptiness you felt in your lower torso. You swung into the drive thru of the closest fast food place and…

Sacrificing Animals for Humans Gary Steiner, a Philosopher, author and Professor at Bucknell University, wrote an article November 2009, in the New York Times entitled, “Animal, Vegetable, Miserable.” In the article, Steiner discusses how unethical he considers it to kill animals for human consumption. In addition to consuming animals, Steiner reports, it’s inhumane to use any products that were made from sacrificing animal lives. The article goes on to say, recently more and more people have…

Peter Singer argues that all animals are equal and that it is not right to eat or kill animals. For the reason that animals are capable of feeling pain and pleasure, they matter and we should consider them as equals. I agree with Singers point of view as an utilitarian, we are morally obligated to make more pleasure than pain, we can’t validate killing and eating animals because they taste good. Singer states that not all humans are equal in a factual sense and that we all have different…

had one of his brothers eaten by Asher, Jacob was doing just fine. He had grown a meter in length and large spikes had started growing out of his shoulders. He was still small and feeble but he could defend himself from smallish predators, if a carnivore tried to eat him, Jacob’s spikes would stab into the roof of the predator’s mouth and spatter its blood everywhere. It was the dry season and food was…

vegetarian diet just means eating food the animals need. Also by not eating meat the population of animals can over populate. Although many people would love to become a vegetarian for the healthy diet it is not ideal. 65% of vegetarians go back to being carnivores for their own personal…

Your name: Matthew King Date: October 16, 2015 Your section: 001 1. Complete Classification: (ITIS: 2014 ) Common Name: Two-toed Amphiuma Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Amphibia Order: Caudata Family: Amphiumidae Genus: Amphiuma Species (G. s.e.): Amphiuma means Species information 2a. Description and identification Family: The family Amphiumidae consists of three separate species of “eel” like animals separated by the number of toes that are present on the animal.…

Botswana, Africa “Botswana is a country located in southern Africa. Geographically the country is flat and up to 70% of Botswana is covered by the Kalahari Desert.” A small, landlocked country of just over two million people, Botswana is divided into 16 districts – 10 rural districts and 6 urban districts.” (n.d.).http://www.mapsofworld.com/botswana/facts/). It’s beautiful, and has a colorful culture. Botswana is perceptibly populated. However faces a few diseases. Here I will explain their…

What’s the Right Theory About the Dinosaurs? In many theories about the dinosaurs disappearing many say meteors are the reason, is that true? The many theories about dinosaurs disappearing is a huge meteor or asteroid,climate change, volcanic eruptions, lava,and fractured crystals. At the same time there are over 40 theories of why the dinosaurs disappeared, but I only listed the most important ones that were mentioned the most. The biggest theory of all of them is the Asteroid , people think…

An issue that has sparked debate in recent years is the care of wild animals in captivity. Peoples main concerns align with the belief that wild animals belong in their natural habitat not confined to cages. To ease civil unrest, the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) was created to hold Zoos accountable for the care of their animals by requiring them to develop enrichment programs to simulate the natural environment of animals that cannot be released back into the wild. Although polices…

Secular or Sacred: the Duality of Music in BaMbuti Culture What does it mean for something to be sacred? Definitions and conceptions of what it means to be sacred often appear in terms of separating from that which is secular: “dedicated or set apart for the service or worship of a deity,” “of or relating to religion : not secular or profane.” [emphasis added] (source). Sacred objects, ideas, and times in a culture are defined as sacred by their difference from everyday activities and things.…