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Paper 2: Exploratory Essay I chose to research the debate about whether eating meat is ethical. There are many different stances on the issue both for and against meat eating. I was personally drawn to this topic upon reflecting upon why people eat what they do and the relatively little thought people put into what food they consume. The majority of people seem to mindlessly eat whatever social norms dictate. I find the topic reflects a larger societal issue that individuals often go with the flow or follow expectations rather than contemplate the reason and consequence of their individual actions. For Summary-Response 1, I used the introduction of “Food For Thought,” by Steve F. Sopontzis. I choose this particular source because it provides a basis for understanding common debates about eating meat and various viewpoints from those against eating meat. I found Sapontzis’ writing to be straightforward and I was not especially surprised by any of the information, but I did strongly agree with his arguments. This source strengthened my views that eating meat is unethical. I used Andrew Tardiff’s article, “Simplifying the Case for Vegetarianism” as my source for Summary-Response 2. This source gave an organized ethical argument for vegetarianism using analogies and …show more content…

This article argues that the inhumane treatment of animals is nethical but not neccarily the raising and slaughtering of animals for food. I chose this source to provide yet another viewpoint on the subject that lies more in the grey area than the other sources. This article was insightful and contained a moderate approach. Nothing in the article came as a huge shock but I did strongly agree with Engster’s argument against the inhumane treatment of animals. After an analysis of this article I became aware of more points of view and reasonable arguments for ethical consumption of

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Growing up with a pescetarian mother (eating no meat other than fish) and omnivore father has not been the easiest of tasks. My mother likes to think she is holier-than-thou because of her diet, while my father just sits and laughs in the corner while eating a stack of ribs. When I read Alan Richmands excerpt “Fork It Over: My Beef with Vegans” I identified with his experiences with vegans because they were what I had experienced with my pescetarian mother over the years. Despite non meat eaters trying to convert meat eaters through persistent ranting, describing in great detail how the animals are raised and slaughtered (guilt tripping), and by trying to demonstrate that food made without animal products can taste just as good as those made with animal products a person can still make the decision to eat meat and enjoy it.

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Is eating meat a detrimental threat to the environment? This debate over meat’s involvement in the global warming crisis was what inspired Nicolette Hahn Niman to write, “The Carnivore’s Dilemma.” Niman hoped writing, “The Carnivore’s Dilemma,” would cause her audience to understand that eating meat, raised on traditional farms, was a superior alternative to vegetarianism. Niman supported her claim by explaining how industrialized farms and vegetarians produce more of the three greenhouse gases that caused global warming, than that produced by traditional farms. Niman’s article fell short of being effective due to flaws in her supporting evidence and conclusion.

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Summary In this article “Against Meat” Jonathan Safran Foer describes his personal experience with struggling whether he eats meat or not and what he went through to become a vegetarian, his main reason was he didn’t want animals to suffer. Foer had a lot of influence in his life, starting with his grandmother who he considered her as a role model he loved her passion with food, although she had one recipe

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Relevance between Food and Humans with Rhetorical Analysis In the modern industrial society, being aware of what the food we eat come from is an essential step of preventing the “national eating disorder”. In Michael Pollan’s Omnivore’s Dilemma, he identifies the humans as omnivores who eat almost everything, which has been developed into a dominant part of mainstream unhealthiness, gradually causing the severe eating disorder consequences among people. Pollan offers his opinion that throughout the process of the natural history of foods, deciding “what should we have for dinner” can stir the anxiety for people based on considering foods’ quality, taste, price, nutrition, and so on.

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This short story explains and questions how people find eating animals morally acceptable. Steiner 's short story explains that whenever people think these animals are being treated respectfully they are being ignorant to the fact of how these animals are truly treated; Steiner brings up the fact of how an animals typical horrid life is and how it transitions from its horrid life to being killed by a butcher in a matter of seconds. Moreover, Steiner also adheres to the topic of how unacceptable, it is to kill these animals just for human consumption. Steiner 's purpose in writing this short story is to display to us the fact that eating any animal is not only wrong, but it is just downright unacceptable as it is mass murder of these innocent animals. Finally, Steiner tries to define at his best, what a strict vegan truly

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As diets and health become more and more of a public concern in America. Two authors weigh in on their opinions on how the American public should handle the problem of obesity as well as their solutions to the overwhelming issue. In one article, “Against Meat,” published on the New York Times website in 2009, points out that the solution to obesity should be vegetarianism. Johnathan Foer who is a vegetarian, claims that his diet and way of living is his the way of improving health in the American public. Foer’s article provides a sense of humor as well as personal stories to attempt to persuade his audience for the ethical treatment of animals along with his personal solution for his own health and the health of his family.

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In the article, “Is It Possible to be a Conscientious Meat Eater”, the authors argue that processed meat can greatly affect the many things in our everyday life. Sunaura and Alexander’s argument is significantly unreliable because of the certain professions both authors yield. As stated in the article “Sunaura is an artist, writer, and activist in Oakland.” “Alexander’s profession is studying philosophy, and ethics in Athens, Georgia.” This shows that neither of them are qualified to argue in the subject of conscientious meat eaters.

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The biggest argument against ethical hunting is that hunting is a ghastly murder of defenseless animals (Muller 108). Only seeing this view makes it impossible for anti-hunters to view the benefits of hunting—all they can see is the only negative. The people against ethical hunting are concentrated on the urbanized east and west coasts (Frazee). These people of the modern, urbanized society can only imagine their own existence as bloodless, painless, clean, and sanitary (Clark 26). Without any comprehension of what has to happen to receive meat and other animal products, such people are ignorant and can only see the “murder” of an animal.

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Ethics of What We Eat is about the processes used to attain the meat we eat every day. The idea behind the book is to find out what is happening in the meat industry and to see what can be done about it. This book falls into the Natural Ethics category very well, because as a whole we don’t always think about what happens in order to get the meat we eat. Natural Ethics is doing what is best for the planet, whether that be protecting the animals or the land. There are two major principles to use when looking at Natural Ethics, they would be conservatism and equality.

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For instance, religious dietary requirements would not have anticipated the production of biofabricated raw meat materials such as in-vitro beef, and this ethical issue was widely debated online following the production of the first lab-grown beef patty in Maastricht (Heneghan, 2013). Religious authorities will therefore face the challenge of determining if these foods would be acceptable for consumption as this technology becomes more prevalent. Using the example of in-vitro beef, an analysis of these issues is represented in Table 4. Notably, if these foods are not acceptable for consumption from a religious authority’s point of view, then their consumption would be a violation of rule-utilitarianism ethics for followers of the particular

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With the development of media, transparency of the supply chains of animal products has been improved to a large extent. Thanks to this change, the situations of animals during factory farming process are exposed to the public, making more and more people realize the terrible suffering that animals have to bear in order to be eaten by us. Some people worry about whether we can still eat meat ethically. To strike a balance between eating meat and protecting animal welfare, it is natural to come up with an alternative to factory farming: benign carnivorism, which states that “animals are reared for human consumption but in humane conditions” (McMahan, 2008) However, there are still several ethical concerns that are left unsolved.

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Most would argue that America provides the top options in food variety. However, it seems that when given the choice between a pound of meat and a pound of vegetables, the more popular choice is the prior. The average American ingests approximately 207.7 pounds of meat per year, and this results in the U.S. being the second highest consumer of meat products under Luxembourg (Barclay). While a large number of Americans seem to be leaning towards vegetarianism, they are still the minority. Even with the disturbing information regarding how our meat is produced, the meat consumption levels continue to rise.

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In today’s world, there is a division among the people in the world regarding whether or not it is ethical to eat meat. After researching about eating meat and vegetarianism, I have come to the conclusion that it is indeed ethical to eat meat in today’s society. Sure, eating meat might have its drawbacks, but I have found that the benefits of eating meat far outweigh the negatives of eating it. Eating meat not only helps improve people’s health, but it also helps strengthen our economy and it has little difference in the environmental impact that involves in the farming of vegetables. Eating too much of anything usually results in a negative outcome.

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Today the modern American is not vegan, but what is commonly known as a “meat-eater,” or more specifically an omnivore. It is widely known that eating meat comes with various positive and negative attributions. Though for non meat-eaters, where does their health state stand? Becoming vegan for one's health,

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In the United States, people have all been wondering is it ethical to eat meat. Eating meat can be very harmful, because it can cause a lot of diseases like Heart disease and other ones. You should not have to kill animals for food because animals are kind of like people. Some more reasons that you should not eat animals, is because eating too much meat can be harmful to the human body, We could just eat plants and other things, and killing animals can be bad so that is why we should not eat animals.

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