...Gary L. Francione once stated, “Veganism is not about giving anything up or losing anything; it is about gaining the peace within yourself that comes from embracing nonviolence and refusing to participate in the exploitation of the vulnerable.” Veganism may be a physical change, but it is more of a mental change in which an individual finds their inner peace and seeks a lifestyle where they do not advocate for abuse, exploitation, or any forms of recreation of animals. In November 1944, Donald Watson of England invented the word ‘vegan’ (“The Invention”). Veganism is defined as a lifestyle in which an individual strives to eliminate all uses of animal products from their daily lives (“Definition”). Vegans live off of various varieties of beans,...
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...Vegans are vegetarians, who in addition to a animal-free diet, do not use other animal products and by-products. Vegans would abstain from products such as dairy products, honey, leather, fur, silk, wool, and soaps derived from animal products. Research increasingly shows there are health and ecological benefits to a plant-based diet. According to a study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences show that 8.1 million deaths can be avoided annually across the globe if more people adopt a vegan diet. But is it the right choice for everyone? One of the results of a vegan diet is weight loss. It is this result, seen as a benefit, that attracts people to veganism. Reed Mangels, a registered dietitian and lecturer in nutrition at the...
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...Veganism is a diet that is similar to vegetarianism. Except instead of not just eating meat, vegans also don't eat any animal products including eggs, milk, cheese, and honey. And most vegans won't use or wear products made of leather, fur, silk, wool, or any sort of makeup product or soap tested or derived from animals. Lots of people don't think veganism is a healthy diet, because they don't understand how plants and minerals can give you the same nutrients as meat or dairy. For example, people drink cows milk for a source of calcium, while calcium can instead be found in cooked collard greens, calcium-fortified orange juice, almonds, cooked kale, soybeans, and broccoli. And people eat meat for a source of protein, while lentils, tofu, peanuts,...
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...For a long time eating meat has been an issue to all sorts of people. It has been controversial throughout different societies over the morality of eating meat from animals. Some countries even have certain animals that are viewed as holy. Clearly there are several different views from people on eating meat and other animal products. Veganism and vegetarianism is slowly emerging as a very distinct culture lead by unique nutritional habits and beliefs. This culture is the best, healthiest way to live your life. By becoming vegan your health will be better, you will be protecting animals, and also save the earth. Becoming vegan will be the best decision you will ever make. Becoming vegan will allow you to live your healthiest life ever. By eliminating meat and animal products you will ultimately rely more on other foods. Replacements can be in the form of whole grains, fruits, vegetable, beans, peas, nuts, and seeds. These foods contribute to a higher daily intake of certain beneficial nutrients. Several studies have reported that vegan diets usually provide more fiber, antioxidants, and beneficial plant compounds. Also when you start a vegan diet you have a natural tendency to reduce your...
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...Veganism: A New Lifestyle “There is no fundamental difference between man and the higher animals in their mental faculties. The lower animals, like man, manifestly feel pleasure and pain, happiness and misery” (Murray et al.). These words by Charles Darwin, an eminent naturalist and scientist, convey a powerful message describing the meaning of the term “veganism”. It has quickly become a popular lifestyle worldwide, and it has contributed to numerous positive effects for people and the environment. Veganism is a revolutionary lifestyle, it can put an end to issues such as, environmental damage, animal cruelty, and health problems that are caused by meat and animal product consumption. There are many things that impact the environment but...
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...Want to know some “crappy” news? In 2012 over 90% of all meat products contained fecal matter. A study produced in 2009 claimed that over 16 million people identify themselves as vegan or vegetarian. Putting that into perspective, it is three times the population of Minnesota. What is veganism and what are the effects of this lifestyle on the human body and the world? Veganism is much more than not eating meat and avoiding certain products and some people question the effectiveness of this lifestyle and others do not. The history is more expansive and broad than one may think. There are also many sides to the reasoning of why one should become or not become vegan. Veganism is similar to a vegetarian diet, a vegetarian is a person who does...
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...Every year, 56 billion animals are killed. These shocking statistics do not begin to include the fish and other ocean species. Humans have been eating animals as far as two and a half million years ago. It is said that they did this as a way of survival. As years have come and gone, and we have progressed as humans, scientific studies have shown the significance of adopting a plant-based diet into your changing lifestyle. It is no longer necessary to inflict in the slaughtering of innocent animals. Veganism is defined as a person who does not eat or use animal products. Most of the motives behind people going vegan is the harsh reality of slaughterhouses and its cruelty. The lives of these domesticated animals are short-lived and painful....
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...Animal Rights First of you might ask what is animal rights? Well, animal rights are rights believed to belong to animals to live free from use in medical research, services to humans. The earliest animal rights has been around (theory, proposal or project wise) is by Percy Bysshe Shelley ,born from 1792-1822, it doesn’t exactly say when he proposed the idea but it had to have been early 1800’s. The first time it became a real thing was in 1970 by richard D. Ryder and was known as speciesism. There are plenty of rights for animals and I will be giving you the top 9 of them which are: Human overpopulation, property status of animals, veganism, factory farming, fish and fishing, animal experimentation (vivisection), hunting, fur, and animals...
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...Microcultures in Canada A Comparative Approach Introduction Every society contains both a mainstream culture and many different subcultures. The mainstream culture is how one is identified as. However, microcultures consist of how we identify ourselves within the global mainstream culture. There are multitudes of ways to participate in a microculture. It could be along ethnic, religious lines, or even lifestyle. All these factors come into play with regards to the different aspects of microcultures. This paper will delve into all three types of microcultures; it will look at Vietnamese, Jewish, and Vegan cultures and compare them to mainstream Canadian culture. The subsequent comparative analysis aims at finding differences in an attempt to better understand and communicate more effectively, by clarifying the common misunderstandings that arise when communicating with different microcultures, whether in business or everyday life. Vietnamese Background/History/Evolution Representing one of the largest non-European sub-cultures in Canada, the Vietnamese community ranks 5th in terms of size and comprises just over 150,000 individuals. Concentrated in metropolitan areas, close to 60% of the population resides in Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver or Calgary (Statistics Canada see Appendix B). Despite currently being a sizable group, this sub-culture was virtually non-existent prior to the Vietnamese war that took place between 1964 and 1975. It wasn't until the conflict arose...
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...advanced writing. Now, through completing English 102, I feel like my writing and research skills have improved even more and I feel better prepared for the writing and research tasks that await me. In this portfolio, I hope to demonstrate how my writing has improved through this class and how I have successfully met the learning outcomes of the course, using one of my projects to show this. For ENG 102, we were assigned to research a topic we were interested in and to write a persuasive research paper on the topic. I chose to research...
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...previously. These newly acquired knowledge has affected my way of living. I was a vegetarian and I drank milk and used other dairy products (anything made from animals). However, now I prevent myself from using such products after knowing more about how animals are being forced to give milk and how they are being slaughtered for their flesh. While researching, I read some journals, books, magazines, and watched documentaries. I got emotional and I was affected and disturbed by what I read and watched. My goal in this paper is to make it clear that we can live without meat and flesh but we cannot live...
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...Meat vs Vegetarian: the War of Strong Opinions The question whether the views of people with strong but scientifically unsupported opinions should be given prominence equal to those with compelling scientific evidence in the decades-long battle of ‘conclusive evidence’ between the Meat and the Veg camp, seems to have surfaced again in the debate. On one hand, there is always a moral choice camp for whom vegetarianism and veganism are choices of non-violence towards animals. PETA is the biggest advocate for moral vegetarianism and much alike other followers of this principle, is not too much concerned with the ultimate healthiness of the food choice, as long as it does not involve killings. “Soy sausages and “Fib Ribs to Tofurky jerky and mock lobster” that PETA is citing as its meat alternatives, do not sound too ingredient-friendly. On the other hand, people choosing vegetarian or meat diet for its health-related advantages are faced with dire straits of scientific burden of proof because health is a long-term domain of high science. ‘Compelling scientific evidence’ appears to be a strong word sequence with almost magical powers, practically an idiom, but, of course, it has to be handled carefully. In many examples of bad or ‘yellow’ journalism, the phrase “British [American, sometimes on gets Chinese for exoticism] scientists have discovered” often validates, or at least serves as modality qualifier for the stories with unchecked or altogether invented facts.’...
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..."Obesity" Research Paper Introduction and Background “I don’t understand why asking people to eat a well-balanced vegetarian diet is considered drastic, while it is medically conservative to cut people open or put them on powerful cholesterol-lowering drugs for the rest of their lives.” --Dean Ornish, M.D. In the Theory of Leisure Class: Conspicuous Consumption, Thorstein Veblen once wrote, “The ‘successful’ are thin to show that they are assured of their next meal.” This sentence gave insight to why people wanted to be thin. Furthermore, it tends to be a reason why many of us climb on our scales at home each day, and depending on what is read, determines whether we have a good day or a bad day (Beller 264). Whether it’s the unhappy news of the gained weight on the thighs, age creeping up on the body, or perhaps only being uneducated in nutrition. Overall well-being should be the goal for weight control, not only to enhance the body’s appearance (Sobal 81). Being overweight can be helped; as any degree of obesity can be considered one of the most preventable causes of death in America (Frankle et al. 1). Obesity in the United States has grown over the years with no real solution, however vegetarianism can contribute to overall well-being of any individual. Karlsberg states that obesity is “the condition of being extremely overweight”, being usually about twenty percent over healthy weight (77). Even if one is not obese, but overweight, the problems that obesity...
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...Rachel Hoffman and Sarah Gentil Ms. Wolverton English 1010 January 9, 2013 Body Brainwash? From the beginning civilizations all had their own ideas of the perfect body shape; this ideal image of the body has evolved throughout time, and continues to this day. In this essay we will discuss different aspects of what America specifically believes the ideal body image should be today. The different issues we will be discussing will involve: concerns with the body image, obesity, cosmetic surgery, compulsive exercise, masculinity and models. There are heated debates about whether these topics are negative or positive. Every part of the world has some kind of ideal body image and will go to certain extremes trying to achieve this perfect image. Probably the most known would be foot binding. Some historical records claim that foot binding began its origin in the Song Dynasty 960-1279 A.D.; the practice was outlawed in 1915 (Lim). Yet some continued in secret. At that time foot binding was a status symbol and the only way for a woman to be able to get married in a decent setting. There are a couple of survivors from this practice, Zhou Guizhen, 86, now regrets binding her feet, yet understands that she had no choice. No one would have married her and at the time that was what women were expected to do (Lim). On the other side of the world, Europe had their own opinion on what the ideal body image was. It wasn’t tiny feet, but tiny waists. In Dave Girdle’s site the author gives...
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...section Vi essay forms Many people use the term “essay” to mean any paper written for a class. In actuality, there are many different types of essays, each of which has a unique purpose, form, and style. We call these different types of essays “modes of discourse,” and they include expository, persuasive, and comparecontrast essays to name just a few. This section of the Guide has a dual purpose. First, various types of essays are described and suggestions are included about how to approach each particular type of writing. Second, the sample essays are good tools for you to see how these different essays look in their final form. These are not templates (no essay can be a carbon copy of another even in form), but they will give you a good idea of what a final piece of writing for each mode of discourse looks like. It would be advantageous to critically analyze the form and content of each sample against the instruction for how to write each type of essay. chapter 21 expository essays Jennifer propp An expository essay explains something using facts rather than opinions. The purpose of this type of essay is to inform an audience about a subject. It is not intended to persuade or present an argument of any kind. Writing this type of essay is a good way to learn about all the different perspectives on a topic. Many students use the expository essay to explore a variety of topics, and do so in a wide range of formats, including “process” and “definition”...
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