Vegetarianism

Growing up I remember my teachers preaching about how we need to take care of our environment. In order to reduce your carbon footprint, they would say “take shorter showers, shut the lights off, and instead of having your parents drive you to a friend’s house, walk.” I always listened to this advice, trying to be as green as I possibly could. Last year I watched an eye opening documentary about our current climate and environmental crisis; however, the documentary didn’t focus on how we drove,…

Spend some time observing any ocean ecosystem and you will see that it can look like a very dreary place. A place full of hunting, killing, manipulation, fearfulness and harsh living environments. Nevertheless, the species involved in these interconnected ecosystems of the oceans have found ways to survive in these environments by each fulfilling a specific niche. The niche of some of these species is oftentimes accompanied by another organism, however, these relationships are termed as a…

I want to present two people, Henry David Thoreau and a vegan. Thoreau was an American Romantic who decided to go to the woods to live off the land, so he spent a year at Walden Pond hoeing beans and watching the water to show that anyone can sustain themselves on a small budget and nature while a vegan abstains from consuming any animal products. What do they have in common? Stereotypically, vegans are outspoken and obnoxious, and for some, Thoreau is annoying and irrelevant. Yet they share a…

I was teaching my theology class about the top 15 theological issues of our day; I had just begun to discuss the issue of egalitarianism vs. complementarianism, when one long sigh exhaled from the entire class and engulfed me. My classmates and I have always stood on opposite sides of controversial issues; every year I go up against the entire class in debates on women’s rights, gay rights, racism, and Donald Trump. Thus, when they heard me say “Egalitarianism is the view that women are equal to…

Compatibilism holds that human behavior is both caused and determined and voluntary behavior is nonetheless free to the extent that it is not outwardly expressed; however, Libertarianism, on the other hand, implies that all of our choices are free from any sort of deterministic theories or forces. Compatibilism is suited best for explaining free will as it acknowledges man as a free moral agent while being restrained by the doctrine of total depravity; Libertarianism takes upon itself to rely on…

Vegetarianism and the Environment Is climate change real? Is the animal sector of industrial farming sustainable? Would consuming less meat have any impact on our current day environment? In our period of time we may have reached a tipping point with our environment, meaning if nothing is done to improve things, they will never be resolved. We are at the peak of the climate change debate right now, and one method considered viable to combat climate change is going vegetarian. A vegetarian can…

back. Rachel Alvarez is a vegetarian. Vegetarianism is very self-explanatory. It is a non-meat based diet. In the standard vegetarian way, not a single piece of meat is consumed when one follows this life-style. And, in recent years, more and more people have taken the leap into vegetarianism. 7.3 million people follow the diet in the United States alone, while 22.8 million people choose to go on a vegetarian-inclined diet, with more going onto full vegetarianism later on. That is a total of 10%…

alternative. But in this day and age, with increasing amounts of technology, people have learned that plant based diets are not what media portrays as the “perfect diet” but is actually harmful to humans, animals and the environment. Veganism and Vegetarianism is not…

judgement of what is important in life. Values can be learned at any age and by anyone. On a study done by vegetarian times approximately 7.3 million people follow a vegetarian lifestyle in America. Being vegetarian has been my way of life since 2012. Vegetarianism is something I will continue to pursue being in the future. When I became a vegetarian It became a code in my behavior that changed all aspects of my life and the people’s around me. There are many reasons someone will become vegan.…

population follows a vegetarian inclined diet. Which currently stands at 22.8 million vegetarians in the U.S (Vegetarian). Both vegetarian and meat eaters would testify differently to what constitutes a healthy diet. In the article 9 Reasons To Reject Vegetarianism…