Veganism

However, I am learning that Veganism, and many aspects of life, is not about perfection, it is about intentions. I should not strive for perfection as perfection does not exist. I will make mistakes along the way, but I will utilize these mistakes to help me grow as a person. My intentions are pure, therefore, I should not be overly critical and micromanage my actions. I chose this lifestyle for my own moral purposes, but I will not disregard others who perform otherwise. Veganism has taught me…

Expository THE EFFECTS OF OUR MEAT. The disguised murder. Introduction When you walk thru the store and grab meat you don't connect it to a dead carcass it's food nothing more. We grow up learning that even in children's books we separate cute farm animals from are food. Society makes industry animals life's no longer a life but simple a product. “we eat pork not pigs, veal not baby calfs, animals are not killed in a slaughterhouse but processed in a packaging plant” -Dana Jones. Effect on…

when he was named Companion of the Order of Australia for to his contributions to the field of philosophy and bioethics. I believe Singer’s straight forward approach will be invaluable to my essay. I have observed that much resistance against the veganism is not based on ethics, but rather the perceived arrogance of vegans themselves. By simplifying my argument into one of ‘minimizing harm’, much initial resistance will be…

Many young people are now converting to either vegetarianism or veganism. There are several reasons as to why one may be vegetarian or vegan, it could be for ethical reasons as they may not like or support the treatment of animals in the food industry or it could be religious as there are some religions that do not promote…

Regarding Gandhi, a spiritual humanist who lived from 1869 to 1948, and Peter Singer, a secular humanist who was born in 1946, spiritual humanists and secular humanists share most of their point of view. However, even if they share the same point of view on most points, their motivation will sometimes be different, but will be the same on other points. The main points that will be discussed to confirm my thesis will be animal care, environment and euthanasia. In order to prove my point, the…

which she used to talk about her passion for veganism. Eventually, her Youtube videos began to include discussions of how to exercise, aesthetically pleasing episodes of her going out to eat at vegan restaurants, as well as episodes where she was just relaxing and talking into the camera. During these personal videos, Essena would talk about her own past issues with her body, her current ambitions to stay inspired, and the importance of making veganism popular. Meanwhile, her Instagram was…

lecture tour. Gary Yourofsky gave 200 lectures in 7.5 months each year from 2002-2014 around the United States. Yourofsky lectured in private college classes. Professors later informed Yourofsky that 15-20 percent of the students made a conversion to veganism and that 50-60 percent reduced their animal-product consumption. Yourofsky never requested money from the schools or the students because he did not believe in charging someone to hear the truth. Other than his tour Yourofsky also has his…

Upton’s Sinclair’s earth-shattering novel, The Jungle, includes a moment of reckoning by its protagonist, Jurgis: “The great corporation which employed you lied to you, and lied to the whole country—from top to bottom it was nothing but one gigantic lie” (85). What Jurgis and his family find is a system, meat production, that is only out to make a profit with little regard to humans or animals. The novel created waves in the years after its 1906 publication. Due to the journalistic nature of the…

potent if used properly. Furthermore, Morris not only hurts the effectiveness of his article using this strategy, but also turns away some readers because of it. A prominent joke Morris uses is when he writes that the number one reason to reject Veganism is because “meat tastes good.” Jokes, such as this one, in a scientific article hurts the effectiveness of the main points that have been presented. In addition, at the start of the article Morris starts by saying, “eating meat is an objectively…

towards anti-speciesism, such as the recent spike in veganism (a growth from 1% in 2009 to 2.5% in 2012 – more than doubling…