Meat

to aid feeding starving people and ending world hunger. It takes 13 pounds of grain to produce only 1 pound of meat! If those crops were directly fed to the people in need, it would feed more and would not require traveling far because most of the starving countries produce the grain that we feed to the animals. The grain would be used much more efficiently and would cost less. The meat that is produced from the 13 pounds of grains is sold to affluent nations, so if the slaughter houses stop…

It was a cold and foggy evening in San Francisco, California. After a day of boat tours and taking the wrong buses, it was finally dinner time. My family had decided to go to Chinatown for dinner, knowing the food would be cheap and delicious. As we walked into the restaurant, I started to prepare myself with the knowledge that there might be some crazy foods that I probably wouldn’t feel comfortable eating, but I couldn’t concentrate because of the millions of pigeons flying everywhere. My…

and water. Vegan meat is made out of vegetables or soya and tastes sometimes like real meat. If you are vegan you have to eat a lot of legumes to be balanced because you don’t get as much iron anymore. The vegan lifestyle is a lot more expensive than the normal lifestyle because the products are complex to produce, but it is environmentally friendlier. Many people, especially americans eat way too much meat and other foods that come from animals. It is unhealthy to eat too much meat and it’s bad…

inside of them that become stronger as time goes on. These superbugs such as salmonella or MRSA can fight of numerous antibiotic drugs due to constant exposure. These bugs then have numerous ways to getting to us humans; they come directly through the meat that we eat, through the feces of the animal that goes into our soil and water ways, and even through the air that we breathe. According GRACE Communications Foundation’s article on antibiotics “One major way in which antibiotics and…

of all United States farm animals are raised on factory farms” (“Factory Farms”). “Every year, 9 billion chickens are slaughtered for meat in the United States” (“Farming Sanctuary”). 1 in every 5 animals on factory farms die from stress and disease…

Often, we as people, are faced with a difficult question: is it morally right or morally wrong to eat meat. Alastair Norcross discusses this in his article, “Puppies, Pigs, and People: Eating Meat and Marginal Cases.” In this article Norcross tells the story of Fred, a man who lost the ability to taste chocolate due to a car accident. He sets up twenty-six cages of puppies, and leads them to live stress induced lives. This is because when the puppies are under stress, they produce a hormone…

In the United States animals that are raised for organic meat have access to fresh air, the outdoors, and water. By law they can not give the animals hormones or antibiotics and are fed organic, free of animal by products feed. According to a report from 2007 from the Range Improvement Task Force “organic meat accounted for 3% of total US meat 12 "natural and organic" beef accounted for 4% of total beef sales in the United States.” The FDA has regulations…

Many people have the misconception that just because meat or animal products are labeled as “organic” it means that the animals aren’t subjected to cruelty and torture. This is false information. According to Sean Carmody, “97% of the 10 billion animals tortured and killed each year are farm…

finding different cohorts studies and how it could affect health in the future. The Adventist Health Study-2 (AHS-2) it a long and extensive cohort study evaluating and comparing health outcomes amongst Seventh Day Adventist (SDA) vegetarian and non-SDA meat-based diets. There was a 60% mortality…

there is no health reason to avoid animal meat. Currently, over half a million people in the United States are vegan. Even with the modern-day diet and science have prepared research that has become pointless to eliminate…