Vegetarianism

Relevance to Audience: You might know that vegetarian and vegan diets are really popular today, and those diets have been growing more since 2014 because people want to lose weight or prevent animal cruelty. Credibility: According to the article Becoming a vegetarian from Harvard Health, “People become vegetarians for many reasons, including health, religious convictions, concerns about animal or the use of antibiotics and hormones in livestock, or a desire to eat in a way that avoids…

In essence vegan diets are diets that cut out all food sourced from animals. However, the distinctive attribute of such a diet is that its practitioners also cut off everything indirectly sourced from animals as Appleby and Key (2015) explain. Thus it is understood that vegans cut out meats, poultry, and fish, but also eggs, milk, cheese and even honey. In other words, vegans stop consuming a significant part of the food pyramid, which leads to nutrient deficiency, specifically, vegans stop…

Market Meat: Ignorance and Morality Student ID: 0258094 In this squib I will criticize Norcross’ response to objection 1 to Norcross’ main argument from the essay “Puppies, Pigs, and People: Eating Meat and Marginal Cases” by Alastair Norcross. In objection 1 to Norcross’s main argument it is argued that Fred tortures the puppies himself, but meat eaters do not torture the farm animals. Norcross’ response is that, Fred’s hiring someone else to torture the puppies for him would be just as wrong…

Did you commit a crime today? According to the logic of Stijn Bruers in his article, The Core Argument for Veganism, if you ate meat today, you did indeed commit a crime, because animals have rights just like humans. He is passionate about the ethical side of veganism, and his article is an attempt to argue his claim that adopting a vegan lifestyle is a moral duty. Whether you agree or disagree, one is forced to confront their assumptions about what the rights of animals and the ethics of…

Veganism: The Wisest Choice Do you ever stop to think about what you’re putting in your body, especially when it comes to meat? Although the human race has been eating animals and animal byproducts for millions of years and a vast majority of people today still do, maybe not even realizing the consequences of their actions, a non-vegan diet definitely does more harm than good by damaging human health and the planet. Veganism is the wisest lifestyle choice people could make because it helps the…

Throughout Eating Animals, Jonathan Foer illustrates all the different elements that go into the production of animal meat, showing different perspectives and emphasizing on the inhumane aspects. When consuming meats, people do not generally think about where that meat is coming from, but instead how good it tastes. They blind themselves from the diseases that meat could be carrying and the pain in which the animal probably endured, ignoring these facts for the sake of pleasure. Throughout a…

Roediger’s “Why Are Textbooks So Expensive” and Hannibal’s “Why the Beaver Should Thank the Wolf”, are journals about two different subjects, yet they share the common belief that one small change would be for the better. The obvious difference between the journals is that one refers to a wolf and one to textbook. Roediger gives many examples and a few ideas for solutions to the rise on the cost of textbooks, while Hannibal states the benefits and consequence of having and not having wolves in…

These days, people began to think that eating meat have negative effects on their life. Some countries such as Denmark and Germany consider introducing meat-tax, which is the policy of imposing tax on meat to reduce its consumption (Carrington). Also, China’s government announced the policy to cut the amount of meat citizens eat (Milman and Leavenworth). However, although such recognition is spread, people eat more and more meat, and the amount of the production has also been growing. Compared…

The article “Why All Humans Need to Eat Meat for Health,” written by bodybuilding enthusiast Kadya Araki, talks about the benefits of eating meat and how it contributes to human body growth. She argues that meat is necessary for physical and mental health, and thus shouldn’t be cut out of a person’s diet. Araki believes that humans need to eat meat to be healthy, and claims that a meatless diet can’t provide the necessary nutrients for muscle growth and good health; however, her argument used…

Although veganism is commonly viewed as a diet, it is also a lifestyle for most vegans. To elaborate, an increasing number of people are becoming vegan for reasons other than dieting. For instance, due to the rising awareness of how cruelly animals are treated in the animal agriculture industry, many people do not eat meat or consume animal products for ethical reasons. In fact, in the article “Are You Willing to Change your Diet,” Colman McCarthy states, “Worldwide, more than 6 million animals…