Omnivore

People feed birds every day whether they leave bread crumbs on their patio or lay crackers on their front porch. No one could tell that what they were doing affected the bird that ate the food. The topic of whether humans should feed the birds or let the bird find the food it needs itself has been an ongoing debate. Humans should not feed the birds because the birds will soon depend on humans and certain foods can be hazardous to the birds. First, the birds will turn to humans in the…

The Nonhuman Rights Project is the first organization to achieve actual legal rights for animals however; the legal rights are limited to certain animals. The animals that this project focuses on are chimpanzees, elephants, dolphins and whales these animals are seen as “smart” animals to society. What’s common with these animals is that some if not most of them are used for human entertainment as well as for medical purposes. Looking closely at the home page those animals are the main ones,…

Animal rights are believed to belong to animals to live free from the use of medical research, hunting, and other services to humans. Also all animals are entitled to the possession of their own lives and that their most basic interests, such as the need to avoid suffering and should be afforded the same consideration as similar interests of human beings. Animals have been suffering and also killed because they 're on the bottom of the food chain or maybe it could be that we’re smarter than most…

Food is one of the most important resources on Earth; everyone needs to eat to live. The worldwide need for nutrition creates a massively wealthy industry. Food production is a large scale business, and maximizing profits is the most important element of this industry. Margaret Atwood creates a parallel of this greed in her book Oryx and Crake. The food industry in Oryx and Crake is much more dramatically adulterated: meat and other food products have been mostly replaced with soy, and some…

Everyone has to eat in order to survive. But where and what are most Americans eating now? In “Against Meat” by Jonathan Safran Foer and “What You Eat Is Your Business” by Radley Balko, the authors try to answer these simple questions. Gone are the days of sitting down with the whole family to a large table laden with food. In today’s world most people are choosing convenience and time saving ways of getting food to the traditional family sit down meal. What does this leave us with? Populations…

There were few circumstances in which David would eat beets. But being surrounded by an angry army of farmers on one side, and a 200 foot drop on the other side, the beet looked like a pretty good choice. He wasn’t really sure how he’d gotten into this situation, but it was obvious he did something wrong. So without a second thought, he bit into the beet, ripping off a good chunk. The angry mob of farmers instantly settled down, looking relieved to see that the boy had eaten the food. But when…

“Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run as fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is the lord of all the animals. He sets them to work, he gives back to them the bare minimum that will prevent them from starving, and the rest he keeps for himself.” (George Orwell, Animal Farm) Humans consume many different animals, but don’t know the animals that they have eaten may have come from a bad…

The goal of my project was to keep track of all the food related waste that we produced over the span of three weeks, and see how we can minimize that amount. The method that I used to keep track of my date was to take note of the waste that I produced, and then uploaded it to my Google sheets document later on in the day. Another method that I used was putting it straight onto my Google Sheets document with my phone. In this date set I recorded the amount of food related trash that the people…

#5 Ann Hodgman- "No Wonder They Call Me A Bitch" Authors Claim- The author wants to convince the reader to pay more attention to the ingredients in their pet's food and subsequently their own food. She goes with the drastic approach of trying different types of dog food to show the public that their disgust in her for doing eating it is hypocritical. the reader is repulsed by the thought of what's in the food she's eating but they turn around and feed it to the animal that they supposedly care…

How I Rid my Garage of Raccoons Raccoons are wild animals that usually live in the woods away from people. Due to expanding human habitats, the wildlife habiatts are sharing the same space. When human and animals come in contact, it's amicable until the wildlife want to share human dwellings as well. I recently discovered some noises in the garage loft and climbed the ladder to investigate. The soft rustling stopped each time I looked. The loft is a floor in an open space without walls using…