Exploitation Of Animal Food

Animal exploitation has been going on forever and still is present. Numerous amounts of individuals are causing the animals to suffer just for their own advantage and benefit. People don’t realise how much hardships these animals are put through just for a meal, entertainment, clothing, captivity, etc. These animals go through this yet it can replaced with something other than animals. You can eat other things other than an pig, cow, lamb, etc, and still have all the nutrients, and protein that those meats consist, also your kids are getting unnecessary hormones and all these chemicals due to farmers injecting these types of toxins to get their animals fatter which significantly increases your cancer risk, diabetes and heart disease. Meat is harmful to adults but also children as their bodies are still developing.

The Omnivore’s Dilemma, written by Michael Pollan, gives light to the question, “What should we have for dinner?” that he thinks Americans today cannot answer simply due to the fact that there are too many food options. This book serves as an eye-opener to challenge readers to be more aware and accountable of what is consumed daily. In order to understand fully where our food comes from, we must follow it back to the very beginning. Pollan goes on to discuss three different modern food chains in which we get our food: the industrial, the organic, and the hunter-gatherer. By tracing our food back to the beginning, we can understand that most of the nutritional and health problems America is going through today can be found on the farms that make our food and the government that can decide what happens. America deals with many food related illness such as, heart disease, obesity, and type II diabetes. Majority of a human and animals diet consists of being corn-fed leading to a high cause of obesity in the United States these are just some of the many diseases that come with over processed foods and diets we are unaware of. In this study, we will highlight the environmental and health issues and impacts related with modern agriculture and how these systems can be made more sustainable.

One of the most unhealthy diets in the world is that of an American. It is made up of processed foods and a good amount of television. America easily has the most fast food restaurants in the entire world. Leave it to McDonald’s, Wendy’s, Burger King or any other fast-food restaurant to serve extremely cheap and even unhealthier food at any time during the day or night. ”It tastes good so why not?” That seems to be the question many people are asking now-a-days. Because it is so easily accessible and processed, it is made to be very tasty and extremely unhealthy. Many Americans find his or herself indulging on the these fatty foods of America on a day-to-day basis. While it may taste good at the time, it has a terrible effect on your body

American food culture is not like other countries in the world; the diversity in foods and ethnicity creates its uniqueness. However, Americans mindset of “what should we have for dinner” and the poor decision making about food choices created the “omnivore’s dilemma” or what Pollan, in The Omnivore’s Dilemma calls the American national eating disorder. Pollan explored more about the food that Americans consume in “an investigation of food called the industrial food chain”(Pollan, Omnivore 110). While studying the products in supermarkets, Pollan realized that supermarkets offer a large variety of foods that contain corn, an unhealthy component, in most of its products. While Pollan is compelling claiming that American’s healthy food

In the article, “Escape from the Western Diet” by Michael Pollan, he argues that, “people that eat the Western diet are prone to a complex of chronic diseases.” Since meat is available everywhere in the United States, everyone is able to get their hands on meat and processed meat on a daily basis. We can eat more than double our weight of meat in the entire year, that just shows us that we tend to eat a heavy meat diet on a daily basis but we are too stubborn to change that. Pollan also states that, “the flood of refined carbohydrates has pushed important micronutrients out of the modern diets.” We live in a world that wants stuff to be done as fast as possible and well that includes food. Since we mass producing meats with the use of drugs and other forms of processing it causes some of the important nutrients that we need to leave the food. In Pollan’s article, it states that, “since healthcare is an industry, it stands to make profit on new drugs and procedures to treat chronic diseases than people changing their eating habits.” Not only are we harming ourselves in not making the proper eating choices but the healthcare industry will stay idly by in order for them to release a new drug to make money. In order for us to improve our health we have to take the first move into that direction

The story of the fast food industry and its effect on the world is well told in the book Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser. Schlosser makes the claim that, what started out as a special treat for the kids eventually ended up defining a way of life. During a brief period of time, the fast food industry has helped transform not only the American diet, but also our countryside, economy, workforce, and popular culture. The book thoroughly describes how important the two factors of money and power are in today's society. The book clearly establishes the broader thesis that as consumers, we should know what we eat even if it makes us uncomfortable by the knowledge.

The Documentary on the book “Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal” written in 2001 by Eric Schlosser, reflects the growth of the fast food industries and the resulting influence of the low price, fast prepared meals. Schlosser clearly states that the fast food corporation has been responsible for dramatic changes in the ways that meat products such as beef and poultry are grown, fed, slaughtered, and processed. These corporations have not even tried to change the police in the way the meat processing industry is handling the different type of meat, leaving the consumer as an open host of foodborne pathogens that are spreading in slaughterhouses across the country. As Schlosser keeps explaining in this documentary, all that

Meat has become a staple in the American diet. According to an article published by

In the field of scientific research, animal subjects have become a primary source of medical testing. Investigating the effects of these procedures and chemical experiments to generate evidential conclusions is widely disputed by opposing audiences today. Advocates propose the necessity of animal usage in scientific testing for the advancement of human welfare, while critics argue on behalf of the rights available to such animals used in these procedures. Despite the controversial debates and publications written about this topic, the harsh realities of its practice continue to linger. A statistic often supplemented to the context of this issue, reported by the nonprofit organization PETA, says “More than 100

America has a unique food culture that survives solely on processed foods, but it is time to adopt a new food culture. As Barbara Kingsolver popular and prolific author on her book Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life weighs in on how Americans in a generation or two have drifted away from their agricultural roots and no longer know the importance of growing and raising food and must adopt a “genuine food culture.” Americans rely on processed foods and have no idea where the food is coming from. Although vegetarianism has often been associated with issues of ethics and animal rights, for many people it can become a means to a healthier lifestyle for all species and the environment. The United Nations News Centre has said that going

It is estimated that the average American consumes 180 pounds of meat a year. That is double the global average. Over the years while our meat consumption increased, our lifestyles became more and more sedentary. So, it is no surprise that in America the top three leading causes of death are heart disease, cancer, and stroke. The cost to treat these diseases are breaking our health care system, and killing 1.4 million people a year (CDC, Death and Mortality). These diseases can be directly related to our current diet of excessive meat and sedentary lifestyles. Also, our high demand of meat is causing irreparable damage to our

On November 2nd, 2015 Michael Specter from The New Yorker published the piece “Freedom From Fries- Can Fast Food Be Good For You?” This piece is an informative yet entertaining article that frames Specter’s knowledgeable background and research of the food industry. Today, we live in world of food –crazy millennia’s, constantly blogging, Tweeting, Instagraming and critiquing any food they can get their hands on. Part of the next generation of food is that we want what we eat to be healthy yet taste and prices matter too. Spector investigates the food world we live in today and how our generation is fuelled by concerns about their health. He also is concerned with researching the state of the food industry in regards to food and environment. Part of this means that we also are interested in how our food is processed and made, showing a general increase in American distaste for industrially produced and highly processed food. Today, new chains are breaking onto the scene to step away from fast food chains like McDonalds and to create a distinct difference between classic fast food and healthy fast food.

Every five years, the U.S. Department of Agriculture updates the American government’s dietary guidelines. These guidelines advise Americans about what is healthy for humans to eat, but in 2015, for the first time, these guidelines named “The Sustainable Power Plate” also reflect what is healthy for the global environment as well by suggesting eating meat in moderation, if at all. The evidence of rapid climate change: rising and warming oceans, global temperature rise, shrinking ice sheets and glacial retreat suggest that the current warming trend is evolving at an unheard of rate, faster than it’s been in about 1300 years.[8] Human activity is likely responsible for the Earth’s change, and within that, livestock production. The livestock industry is a major contributor to the degradation of the environment, as well as being an industry that demands many natural resources, forcing humans to compete with farm animals for food.

The production of animal products for human consumption contributes over 14.5 towards global greenhouse gas emissions, and is one of the biggest factors of climate change . Most consumers of meat and dairy are uninformed of this fact, as they believe that transportation and the burning of fossil fuels are the leading contributors towards global warming, and not the production of foods that they consume on a daily basis and in large quantities. However, the consumers are not the only ones to blame; in America, large meat and dairy corporations as well as the government are two forces that heavily advertise and influence the consumption of animal products. In fact, companies such as Tyson Foods have successfully lobbied for the Agriculture

The use of live animals is believed to have begun during ancient times, mostly in order to fulfill the curiosity of the human body. It has been within the last century and a half that more advancements have been made in medical research than in any prior era. Diseases such as polio, tuberculosis, malaria, and smallpox can now be either prevented or treated due to pharmaceutical research that involved the use of animals. The use of animals in scientific research is important because the use of animals has allowed there to be many advancements in the medical field, such as discovering vaccines for deadly diseases, and has allowed for the regulation of chemicals that may be harmful for human and animal consumption.