...2012 Ethical Issue Analysis for the Ethical Treatment of Animals Summary: Of all the agricultural land in the US, 87% is used to raise animals for food. These animals are fed more than 80 percent of the corn and 95 percent of the oats the US produces. Meat animals of the world alone consume food equal to caloric needs of 9 billion people- more than the entire human population on earth. It takes 2,500 gallons of water to produce a pound of meat, but only 25 gallons to produce a pound of wheat. A vegetarian food will make ten times as many humans happier than a non-vegetarian one, not counting the happiness gained by animals. Meat eating results in a lot of wastage of food that would otherwise have fed many more people. Ethical Issues Analysis I believe in the ethical treatment for all animals are an ethical obligation by all humans. We have come to an era that we believe that all humans should be treated equally and fairly. Well, what about our other living, breathing counterparts? They deserve to live their life as they choose in quality and in the pursuit of happiness. Just as Europeans came and took over Northern America's land and resources on the Indians. We have also taken over the land and resources from all of the animals. The moral point of view in the killing of animals for food as an indulgence which is not a necessity for our diet is killing another living being. Eating large amount of meat without any vegetarian choice causes constipation, obesity and cancer...
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...Far too often, not enough thought goes into the food we consume, particularly when it comes to meat. Typically, we grow up simply eating what is on our plates, never stopping to think about the ethical, political, or environmental consequences of our diets. Why should we? Everyone eats animal products— this is the way things are and always have been and always will be. Social psychologist Melanie Joy perhaps says it best: “Many of us spend long minutes in the aisle of the drugstore mulling over what toothpaste to buy, yet most of us don’t spend any time at all thinking about what species of animal we eat and why. Our choices as consumers drive an industry that kills ten billion animals per year in the United States alone. If we choose to support...
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...When watching the film Food Inc., one can examine film and identify the three components of a claim in the film- the grounds, warrants, and conclusions to the argument are all explicitly featured and given expansive detail. Through the use of case studies and typifying examples, director Robert Kenner is able to send a message to the audience about how real the problem is- industrialization of the food industry is killing consumers and the world that we live in, and Kenner offers ways in which we can change the conditions “one bite at a time.” Firstly, Kenner makes claims at the beginning of the film. In doing so he employs several forms of rhetorical devices- typifying examples, statistics, and the identification of people affected are...
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...Is Our Food Killing Us? Is Our Food Killing Us? is an investigation into the processed food products that make up the modern American diet and the affects these products are having on our health and well-being. Also, in many cases we are well aware of the health risks of diets rich in certain foods. Fast foods, heavily processed food-like products and convenience foods have been proven to cause obesity, heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes and cancers. Even food products that claim to be “fat free” or “diet” contain artificial ingredients that can cause health problems such as migraine headaches. Our food may very well be killing us and yet we, as a nation, are not changing our eating habits. The intention was to find out why we choose to continue on the unhealthy paths that we are on. Information found in many articles and documentaries, including doctors’ and scientists’ statements, as well as nutritional information found on nearly every food label in the grocery store, explained what was in the foods we are eating, what it does to our bodies and what were our reasons for not making healthier choices. Factors such as food addiction, convenience, commercialism, false claims and income are some examples of why we may continue to eat poorly. This paper will examine all of these topics and some others. Maybe the information that will be revealed here will be just what you need to modify your own diets and begin a road to a healthier body! Table...
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...yourself, is the murder of an animal justified? Is wanting a hamburger more important than the suffering and torture of the animal which it came from? Though a large amount of people are for animal rights, most are uninformed of the suffering behind factory farming. If people knew the true conditions in which the animals live, the unacceptable lifestyle these creatures have, and the torturous process that contributes to having food on your plate, we would all be hostile to the practice. Factory farming is unacceptable and it should be abolished....
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...the other way. Across the world, about half of all sewage is dumped into water bodies in its original form. No efforts are made to disinfect the sewage or to remove especially harmful pollutants. Even if sewage is treated, problems still arise. Treated sewage forms sludge, which is sent out into the sea and dumped. Many cities and countries dump sewage out at sea. Often, they place it not far from their own coastline, often killing all the sea wildlife in the dumping area. In addition to sewage, chemicals dumped by industries and governments are another major source of water pollution. Raymond Furon could not believe his finds when he tested a river used by a reservation as a main source of water and food. "Radioactive toxic waste were traced in lakes and rivers that Native Americans depend on" . Another dangerous cause is oil. Oil, such as that spilled by transport ships, has been dumped into the water since the US Civil War. Henry Gilfond had astonishing statistics on oil spills. "Every year, between 1 and 10 billion tons of oil are spilt, killing many species and destroying the...
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...the other way. Across the world, about half of all sewage is dumped into water bodies in its original form. No efforts are made to disinfect the sewage or to remove especially harmful pollutants. Even if sewage is treated, problems still arise. Treated sewage forms sludge, which is sent out into the sea and dumped. Many cities and countries dump sewage out at sea. Often, they place it not far from their own coastline, often killing all the sea wildlife in the dumping area. In addition to sewage, chemicals dumped by industries and governments are another major source of water pollution. Raymond Furon could not believe his finds when he tested a river used by a reservation as a main source of water and food. "Radioactive toxic waste were traced in lakes and rivers that Native Americans depend on" (79). Another dangerous cause is oil. Oil, such as that spilled by transport ships, has been dumped into the water since the US Civil War. Henry Gilfond had astonishing statistics on oil spills. "Every year, between 1 and 10 billion tons of oil are spilt, killing many species and destroying the ecosystem in the area. Cleanup efforts have...
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...My paper is about the significant decreasing of animals because of animal testing. Animal testing is killing animals and is unfair and inhumane. Animals don’t get the choice of whether the want to die or not and they also don’t get the choice if they want to get tested on or not. According to Humane Society International, animals used in experiments are commonly subjected to force feeding, forced inhalation, food and water deprivation, prolonged periods of physical restraint, the infliction of burns and other wounds to study the healing process, the infliction of pain to study its effects and remedies, killing by carbon dioxide asphyxiation, neck-breaking, decapitation, or other means. People are talking about how animal testing is cruel...
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...animals but also produce harmful diseases and environmental hazards to each and every one of us, regardless whether you consume these animals of not. The U.S. government should ban the use of factory farming animals Factory farming should be illegal in the United States because the food produce is poor quality food. The meat from the animals in factory farms is mechanically removed, which means it it ripped from the bone and other parts of the body by a machine(Hurst). Factory farms even use parts of the body that most people wouldn't use such as: lips, eyes, testicels, and anal tracts are included in sausage and patties(Hurst). The excess meat is then blended up and added in with the other meat to make a larger profit. The food from factory farms may be cheaper the nutritional foods. Organic food continues to cost on average several times more than food from factory farms, but no one goes to farmers’ markets for bargains. But not all costs can be measured by a price tag. Once you become sick with health problems due to the poor quality of the food and have to pay for treatment. The animals are injected with a variety of drugs and hormones to increase growth and production ("Natural resources defense council"). Which is then passed onto the consumer in the food or meal making the food unhealthy for your body ("Natural resources defense council"). The drugs and hormones that are in the food that you ingest can disrupt the human hormone balance causing developmental problems. Studies...
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...ignore forever or rather avoid. But as humans, these are the type of questions which define us as better beings and often challenge us to think and act in a way that’s worthy of our better capabilities, intellect, conscience, and hearts. If only an animal would ever speak or rise up the way many human rights activist did in the past in defense of human equality regardless of race or skin color. Surely we would have massive protests and riots from pigs, cows, lambs, goats, and many other animals whose rights are just completely ignore by the vast majority. It is sad to see that these rights are only applied in favor of a handful of animals, while others are locked away and confined to feedlots where the powerful meat industry obliterates their rights and turn their lives into profitable pieces of meat. Though it is legal by law, culture, and trade, the maltreatment and killing of these animals to feed the inhumane and greedy meat for profit industry must stop not only because it violates animal rights, but also because it promotes an agenda of animal abuse, exploitation, and unhealthy human nutrition for generations to come. Instead, the Government should partner up with animal rights activist groups and launch a national animal cruelty awareness campaign, impose a feedlot tax to discourage this industry, and create incentives for businesses and individuals in an effort to encourage us all to become vegetarian. Forcing animals out of their natural habitat and into industrialized...
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...For some people bees can be annoying and irritating. They buzz around sometimes stings people and always gets into your food and drinks when you try to eat or have a snack outside. Some even have allergic reactions to the stings. Well like it or not, if it weren’t for bees then we would all be dead. Since the 1900’s, beekeepers have watched the decline of bees. They have reported the dropping rate of the bees. Bee killing pesticides are one of the most biggest reason for this decline. Industrial agriculture, climate change and parasites are also the big reasons for the decline of the bees. Bees play a huge role in the ecosystems. A third of our global food supply is from bees. We depend on their pollination greatly. If we didn’t have the bees then wewould all die. We would have no one to pollinate all of the crops. If we they died we would have to hand pollinate everything, which takes a very long time, very expensive, and laborious. So technically it pays to have the bees naturally pollinate themselves. Since the end of World War II, the use of pesticides have increased greatly. Neonicotinoids have the biggest impact on the bees. Neonicotinoids are a very popular pesticide and are chemically speaking- similar to...
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...someone tells us a fact about a certain food to make it seem healthy people will buy it. People will hesitate from just doing what is right like eating balanced will let someone pursued them into buying something that actually isn’t that healthy for them. This is how the question has become confusing. 2. Pollan means that nationwide we are obsessed with the fact of looking healthy instead of actually being healthy. I completely agree with this because people base what they buy off of what it is supposed to make them look like instead of just plane eating right and exercising. 3. Pollan thinks this because “it never would have happened in a culture in possession of deeply rooted tradition of food and eating”. We are more vulnerable because we are so ethnically and culturally different. We as Americans have no massive religious and cultural ties to food so it makes us more vulnerable to be persuaded into eating no necessarily healthy things. 4. The American Paradox is the people here that are unhealthy and are obsessed with the idea of being or becoming healthy. The French paradox is a healthy group of people that live and eat in ways that we look at as unhealthy. 5. An omnivore eats both other animals and plants. 6. The omnivore’s dilemma is that as omnivore’s we have such a huge selection of possible items of food, but we have to base possible items off of what is healthy or what could eventually kill us. A koala is an omnivore but it has less an issue finding food because it...
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...Peretti, Jacques. "Why Our Food Is Making Us Fat." The Guardian. Guardian News and Media, 11 June 2012. Web. 10 June 2016. This web article started with the author's point of view as he rode on a bariatric ambulance (an ambulance designed especially to care for the obese). The information gathered from this web source include facts from a twelve year study done at Plymouth hospital, Earl Butz, Surplus of corn, Hank Cardello, and many other important figureheads of the obesity epidemic. This web article will primarily be used as how the epidemic started and who is to blame. I trust this source by the links given within the article. Each important name, study, and association has a hyperlink that leads the reader to where the author has received his information. This article pertains to how the food industry has changed since the mid-70s, including history of the Nixon Presidency and what figureheads are doing now to reverse damages being made. The author gives strong reasons to blame the food industry. Kenner, Robert. "Food, Inc." PBS. PBS, 21 Apr. 2010. Web. 10 June 2016....
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...Sweden. (BusinessInsider.com). Walmart’s actions shape our work, income distribution, consumption patterns, transports, politics, and the organization of industries from retail to manufacturing, from the United States to China. Our free market system has grown a monster that can’t be controlled by the Washington elites or Wall Street bankers. A few store closures could drastically change an entire city. A change to any part of its business model could potentially send the Dow Jones on a downward spiral. So the question becomes, how big is too big? Is Walmart in the same category as the too big to fail banks? The answer is simple. Walmart has the power to cripple this nation and no regulators will go against them and risk financial fail to our economy. There are currently 1.4 million associates on their payroll, of which 60% are struggling financially and still relying on government assistance for food stamps and medical coverage. As we seen in the movie, The High Price of low cost, (2005), the retail giant would give info sessions to its employees on how to apply for government assistance. They exploit all the loopholes by first paying its employees minimum wage, a family of 3 would fall below the poverty level thus qualifying them for food stamps, then getting tax breaks that help them avoid paying taxes that fund food stamps. Another report by Americans for Tax Fairness and the Institute for Policy Studies claims the company exploits a little-known loophole to avoid an estimated...
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...FOOD PRESERVATION AND STORAGE In the past few years preservation of food has been practiced in different ways due to food decay after harvest. For this reason, people where able to enjoy their harvest for a long time .Today, people have distorted from rural practice of preserving food to modern practice of preserving for fun. However, Food preservation is the process by which certain foods like vegetables and fruits are preserved from the growth of bacteria, yeast, fungi and other micro-organisms which causes food blemish. Food preservation practice should be done in a hygienic manner to observe the health of the people for it can cause food borne illness. The preservation of food should not affect the colour, taste or the texture of the food. However, there are several reasons why we preserve food in our society today. We preserve food for personal satisfaction, helps in acquiring more skills on how to reduce waste products, prepare for emergencies, it makes transportation of food and it’s environmentally friendly. There are different methods of food preservation and storage which differ from traditional techniques to industrial or modern techniques. Methods of food preservation There are many process designed to preserve food which involve a number of preservation methods. There are two methods of preserving food; the traditional and modern methods. In ancient times food was preserved in many ways including; freezing, salt, drying, sugar, smoking, drying, refrigeration, lye...
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