Ethics of eating meat

Cultural relativism is a concept where all individuals and their cultures are of equal value. Oftentimes, individuals may be forced, due to current economic or financial conditions, to proceed in an environment that it is not favorable to them. The concept though relies on the opportunity that one day these individuals may be able to live in an environment where their morals and beliefs are accepted. The opposite of relativism is consequentialism. Consequentialism bases moral rules on the…

many CFU’s his chickens had compared to the monopolizing companies like Perdue and Tyson. The other argument raised was to take our meat back to what it originally was grass fed and hormone free meat production. Many big name beef companies do not allow their cows to feed on grass, but are corn fed. These cows have bacterial problems in their stomachs caused by eating the corn, which leads to disease and sickness. The cows are left standing knee high in their own feces so that if one cow gets…

Everyone’s views on certain topics is something that can always change due to receiving greater knowledge from outside sources and experiencing new things from our everyday lives. Understanding someone’s philosophy is understanding how they interoperate right from wrong and the choices they choose daily. I like to believe that my philosophy is always changing and growing with everything I learn about and different things I go through by applying it to ethical behavioural, how I preserve…

brainpower, one of the best choices you can make is to eat more unprocessed whole foods. Real foods are full of vitamins, minerals, antioxidants and countless other phytochemicals that nourish your brain cells (and even grow new ones)” (webpage 1) If eating certain foods can induce brain cell production the pace at which students learn and the amount of information the children can retain will make a word of difference in society today. Some examples that Dr. Mercola gave of some food that…

The monthly quantity of items in the ration card are 5 lb rice, 10 oz of beans, 3 lb raw sugar, 250 ml oil, 1kg salt, a roll of bread, 6 oz chicken, 11 oz fish, 10 eggs and 8 oz ground meat. However there is national shortage of such products and only the items available in the ration is distributed. The other means of acquisition include unsubsidized markets which are usually very expensive. Subsidized markets do not have much options…

like-minded people and may even have succeeded in selling their products at even higher prices (as if they are not expensive enough already), but none of that would have been a sure thing. In a remotely similar way it is like going vegetarian in largely meat-eating society. There are a handful of producers, distributors and retailers that cater to that market, their prices are high, their margins not necessarily attractive but they live on the ideals. That is a valid alternative for someone who…

Allah. Muslims who can afford it should sacrifice a sheep, goat, camel, or cow showing Abraham's submission to God. The meat of the sacrificed animal is divided into three equal parts, first given to the poor and needy, second given to relatives and friends, and the third part is cooked at the house of the person who did the sacrifice and he deserves his part as well. Eating this meat is part of the festival…

On the website “nbcnew.com”, there is an article titled “Boy finds a piece of finger in Arby’s sandwich”. The article speaks of a 14 year old boy in Michigan who was eating the last of his Arby’s sandwich when he discovered part of a human finger in it. The article states that an, “employee apparently cut her finger on a meat slicer and left her station without immediately telling anyone”. Other employees at the store kept filling orders and then finally shut down food production at the store…

this course, including myself was required to write a paper about what is the whole Philosophy concept mean and as regards the questions being asked such as “what is ethics?”, “what is the good?”, and “why should we be moral?”. In the meanwhile, before the class started to explore more depth about the meaning of those questions, Ethics defined what we as a human being believe in what is the rightness or the wrongness. Moral is what teaches us in our beliefs on the rightness or the wrongness.…

“The belly rules the mind.” This Spanish proverb means that what we eat affects what we think, feel, and do. Today, many students love to eat. It is true that it affects our minds and our academic performance in school. Some people say that if you eat chocolate during exams, you will get smarter and it will help you pass your exam. If you drink soft drinks, you will be energized and you will become active in participating in your class. To put it simply, good food means good mood. If you have…