Reflection About Vegetarianism

My current view on food is that it creates a sense of comfort and fulfillment, yet this was not always the case. During my teenage years I struggled with an ongoing eating disorder. During that time I viewed food as a threat, or an enemy. As part of my recovery process, I was given a task to make friends with food. I first approached this task with a closed mind, finding a wrong with every meal I ate. My view changed completely when my friends took me out to a vegan diner for a burger and sweet potato fries meal.

As a meat eater, has anyone ever asked the question, “How can you eat meat?” The controversy of being a meat eater or vegetarian has been around for decades. David Foster Wallace wrote a thorough article, Consider the Lobster, in which he brings up popular topics of concern over eating meat. Is it morally wrong to eat the meat of an animal, or creature, who suffered for one's own hunger? Why should one have the right to decide the standards of pain? Questions included in Wallace’s article have had many in a whirlwind of emotions and opinions. As a vegetarian, one will know the full truth concerning health, recognize false advertisements, understand how animal pain relates to human hunger, and acknowledge the treatment of animals up until their deaths.

Vegetarianism is a custom practiced in six out of the seven continents and has become more popular over the years. Vegetarianism can be defined as the exclusion of animal products such as meat and fish from one’s diet. Dairy products and eggs are often times excluded as well. Although there are many reasons one may decide to become a Vegetarian or follow such a code of ethics, the most common include: moral, religious or health reasons.

Vegetarians are people who do not eat meat, and for some, do not consume any animal products at all. Vegetarian has been along for a long time and with time has grown the controversy over the topic. The reasons that vegetarianism has grown into a controversial topic are mostly the human beliefs and health reasons associated with it.

It was a yearning for upwards mobility that got fetched inside Brian’s brain, and it was a yearning for life itself that had managed to gobble the whole entire of Suthies’ inner head. Two distinct motors and pedals for the various defined terms of “success”. What constitutes the differences between those who possess a meager and humbling sense of the self and those who are tangled up in the pursue for materialistic wealth and upper mobility? It appears that these two people defined the good life in two severely distinct ways, and for a hypothetical scenario let’s say that they both began at the same marker on the race line trail. At the finishing line, there stands a reward for both, and it is the door towards the next stage. Now, we ought

One essential aspect of my life is my lifestyle choice of being vegan, in which I learned more about myself and where I stand without entering a classroom. By educating myself on the effects of the meat and dairy industry to the animals, my health, and the environment, I expanded my horizons beyond the what I see on my plate. Raised in a filipino culture, meat, dairy, and fish are an significant ingredient in the cuisine. When I was younger, I’ve never been exposed to a vegan lifestyle nor have I heard of the word itself! Rather than exaggerating what I ate, I ate without a thought.

Typically, a parasite is known as any organism, which lives off or benefits at the expenses of another organism, its host. When the non-mutual symbiotic relationship between them end up with the host being killed directly by the organism, then it is better known as a parasitoid. On the other hand, when the organism makes an intermediate host more prone to die due to be eaten by the next host, then it is named a trophically transmitted parasite. In order to survive, they all depend on transmitting themselves from one host to another one. Some of them have the ability of manipulating their host’s behavior in order to achieve a successful transmission. In other words, the way humans and animals think or behave could be being controlled by some

We live in a society that is divided into three classes that Karl Marx labeled as aristocracy, bourgeoisie, and proletariat. People are placed into one of these different factions based on their wealth, power, and social institutions. When we analyze literature, focusing on identifying these different divisions, we begin to realize how large an influence they have on an individual’s personality, actions, beliefs, hopes, and fears. At first glance, Oscar Wilde’s play, The Importance of Being Earnest, seems like trivial comedy, but if one were to adjust the mirrors and look past the surface, he would see that this literary work reflects the ideologies of the classes born from society's partition.

An intense, aggressive moral scrutiny has sparked interest in the meat eating community. Eating is an activity that we as humans do frequently, and the variety of food is immense. We decide what we are about to eat and how it will affect our bodies. In different societies, controversy has arisen over the morality of eating meat from animals. However, the moral and ethical arguments of eating meat is not a new debate. Roger Scruton’s essay, “A Carnivore’s Credo”, addresses both carnivores and vegetarians by using an appeal to pathos and ethos to persuade people of the need to “remoralize” eating meat, and extrapolating that to mean that human beings have the conscious ability to choose and stand up for moral right and wrong.

It's not the lonliness that gets me at Christmas, I've grown used to it over the years. I welcome it when I arrive at my cold house and it greets me at the door. What upsets me at Christmas is the portion size.

My scale was my ticking time bomb. Every time I step upon it, I was a pound closer to my death. I didn’t concur with me at the time, but I was anorexic, I had an eating disorder. I was never was fat child growing up. As I grew older I did accumulate a few extra pounds, but it never became an issue until seventh grade. I became extremely fixated with my figure, to the point of not eating. I would forcefully make it a game and see how many hours I could go without eating. I would wait endless hours until my stomach ache, to the point of fainting to consume something. If I did eat the meal would consist of soup or one piece of chicken. I dropped down to a low seventy pounds that summer of 2013, and I specifically remember jumping for joy as if

Recently, I worked as a chef in a vegan restaurant in Poland. I moved to Birmingham for a challenge and to master my cooking skills. The vegetarian cuisine is important to me because it allows giving full play to my imagination and empathy. I discovered on 1847’s website that you would embrace an enthusiastic person who is fascinated with fresh food for the Chef de Partie. Your company culture and concern about employees are of great value to me, not to mention a modern and stylish perspective. Therefore, I would like to contribute a high standard of delivery and professionalism, which I am sure will delight the customers of 1847.

I remember my dad telling my family about his diagnosis of Type II Diabetes when I was in the third grade. In the years to come, I’ve seen his health deteriorate in ways that I didn’t expect. I guess that’s part of the reason why I adopted a vegetarian lifestyle about five years ago. To me, being a vegetarian has involved me taking charge of my health and educating myself about my choices of what I put into my body. My hope is that I can sustain this for life. Starting a club in college where I can be around vegetarians and vegans will motivate me to continue this throughout my college years. However, with forming a vegetarian/vegan club, I want the devotion to health to extend outside of the club. With this, I want my club to positively impact

Christopher McCandless, a young American who was found dead in summer of 1992 in wild land in Alaska, wrote in his diary about his moral struggle regarding killing a moose for survival. According to Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild, Chris had to abandon most of the meat since he lacked the knowledge of how to dismantle and preserve it (166-168). Not only did he have a moral dilemma to kill a moose, but also had a deep regret that a life he had taken was wasted because of his own fault. He then started recognizing what he ate as a precious gift from the nature and called it “Holy Food” (Krakauer 168). Exploring relationships between human beings and other animals arouses many difficult questions: Which animals are humans allowed to eat and

According to a recent poll 6 to 8 million American’s do not eat meat, fish, or poultry. From these studies, they have been researching about the effects of a vegetarian diet on the body. Compared to most meat based diets, vegetarians consume less saturated fat and cholesterol from not eating meat. Choosing this route will have a person what would be considered a better quality of life and overall good health. Research so far has shown that a vegetarian diet reduces the risk of heart disease. In recent years a study was done using different participants and the results showed that vegetarians were 25% less likely to die from heart related problem. “This is because vegetarians tend to consume more high-fiber, whole grains, and legumes which have a low glycemic index and the body digests slowly. This keeps blood sugar levels steady. Another food item that helps reduce the risk of heart disease is walnuts” (Sixwise). This is because the omega-3s in walnuts help reduce total cholesterol. There is some controversy over this specific topic, thus, are they really that healthy? What does it mean to be a vegetarian, and what do professionals have to say about being a vegetarian?