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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.

Eating animals is normal for any carnivore, but abuse to these animals is unacceptable. There are religions and traditions when it comes to eating and killing animals, usually to be viewed sacred and not like they are nothing. Humans have morals and traditions that separate barriers with farm animals and pets.

Brandon McKnight Professor Cox English 1000 9 November 2016 A Country and Its Food Just this year the CDC reported a multi-state wide outbreak of E. coli (STEC) in flour. The contaminated flour was shipped to twenty-four states and caused sixty-three people to become ill. Further investigation of the outbreak linked a General Mills flour factory in Kansas City, Missouri to the production of the tainted flour (Center For Disease Control). An outbreak like this is extremely difficult to track, there are multiple steps in the production process where the contamination could have occurred.

The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan is a comprehensive look into the present day food culture of the United States. Throughout the book the author tries to find out the true composition of the diet that is consumed by Americans on a daily basis. There is an excessive dependence by the American population on the government to know which food is good for them. This paper will critically analyze the book as well as the stance that the author has taken. Since there is a deluge of information about diets and health available today, the relevance of this well researched book in the present day world cannot be emphasized enough. Its relevance is not limited to the United States alone but to the entire human society which is moving towards homogenous food habits.

Namit Arora’s article On Eating Animals captures the horrors of the meat industry. Arora is a true animal activist who describes instances in which cows try to escape slaughterhouses, but they are usually recaptured and killed. Arora portrays these events and statistics through a reprimanding and critical tone. This tone appeals to the audience’s feelings of guilt about the purchase of meat wherein the inhumane killing of farm animals takes place. He incites guilt in order to reveal the twisted system that Americans call the meat industry.

After the guilt sets in from eating for the sake of pleasure, Scruton brings forth a multitude of facts and makes an effort to appeal to ethos. To do this, he addresses the benefits of small-scale livestock farming, the use of animals in scientific experimentation, and the actions taken against animals that promote harm. This flood of ethical evidence continues to leave readers wondering if Scruton is a vegetarian himself.

This chapter brought up a good point about the antibiotics regulations for organic farming. As someone who was once a member of 4-H if you are planning on raising market animals the healthier the animal is the better. So when the USDA set the no antibiotics standard for market animals to be considered organic is unrealistic because in order to have a shot at raising healthy animals they need to get shots to keep them from getting sick. And this doesn’t just apply to 4-H, it applies to commercial farms too and that’s why some of them treat their animals so badly. Commercial farms try to follow the USDA rules but aren’t making enough money to keep their animals healthy so when they get sick the animals are hurriedly pushed to get well without the use of vet care, because that’s money that they could use to buy more animals instead of trying to care for the ones they have. This doesn’t condone the methods the commercial farms use but it is easier to care for the animals better when you are a 4-H’er and raising 1-3 animals per year as opposed to a factory farm raising 60-70 animals per year.

Our nation’s modern industrial farming has become more than only feeding people; it has become a way for the food industry to make more money as human population continues to grow. The food industry has transformed not only how people eat, but also has had negative effect on our climate as a result of factory farming as illustrated by Anna Lappe in “The Climate Crisis at the End of Our Fork”. Jonathan Safran Foer in his book Eating Animals, illustrates the effects factory farming has had on animals meant for human consumption. Furthermore, Foer asks many questions to the reader on what will it take for us to change our ways before we say enough is enough. The questions individuals need to be asking themselves are: how do we deal with the problem of factory farming, and what can people do to help solve these issues? Namit Arora in the article On Eating Animals, as well as Michael Pollan in his book The Omnivore’s Dilemma, both address some of the issues that animals face once they hit the kill floor. Eric Schlosser in Fast Food Nation, also writes on the topic of animal abuse, and what goes unseen within the food industry as well as Bernard Rollin and Robert Desch in their article Farm Factories, both demonstrate what is wrong today with factory farming. The food industry today has impacted all facets of farming practices: from our Earth’s climate to the abuse animals endure, and the loss of old world agricultural farming

With all this mass production of meat and eggs and dairy, it is no wonder our health is affected as a result of unsanitary conditions and over-drugged and over-stressed animals. The public is at risk for E. coli poisoning, salmonella poisoning, Mad Cow Disease, the swine flu, the bird flu, all which are transmittable from animal to human. Eighty percent of our nation’s antibiotics produced are distributed to farm animals, not to keep them from getting sick, but to make them grow bigger, faster and to be able to tolerate living in crowded quarters. The American Academy of Pediatrics says that this has contributed to the emergence of virulent supergerms that are resistant to antibiotics. In Sabrina Tavernise’s article, “Farm Use of Antibiotics Defies Scrutiny,” she speaks with the director of the Emerging Pathogens Institute at the University of Florida, and he states, “The single biggest problem we face in infectious disease today is the rapid growth of resistance to antibiotics. Human use contributes to that, but use in animals clearly has a part too” (Tavernise).

While almost all farm animals face the same fate as each other, they do not get the treatment they rightfully deserve. Farm animals, just like humans, deserve to live a life with dignity and respect. Unfortunately, in the chaos of producing the greatest amount of food possible, the agriculture industry has transformed into an industry of mistreatment. Every day, animals grow up in conditions such as Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFO), “homes” where animals stand knee deep in their own manure with no room to move. While large farms and meat packaging plants argue techniques like CAFOs are necessary evils, I advocate that farm animals currently live in a state that is unacceptable and sickening. The agricultural industry needs to refine its techniques to treat animals in a morally correct way. To improve the agricultural industry’s treatment of farm animals, consumers need to purchase food products that were raised properly, where animals and plants do not live in deplorable conditions that flaunt inhumane treatment. In the face of mistreatment, we need to refine butchering techniques that kill an incomprehensible number of animals every day; provide animals with a clean environment, that producers could boast of; and decrease the artificial modification of animals, to improve our health and animals’ health.

Four people sit kneeling around a small table in a small room laden with food. A room where a serious man in a black box holds out a can of something altered and edible, and a young girl perched near her mother clutches a bag of potato chips to her chest as if claiming it as solely her own. This is the scene depicted in a photograph of the Ukita family in Kodaira City, Japan as part of a series taken by Peter Menzel for the book “What the World Eats”. This series of photographs illustrates not only what people eat in different parts of the world, but also how their families, and lives as fellow humans can so closely resemble our own.

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.

He ends his article with “to eat or not to eat meat is a personal decision” (para 11) so he is wanting to make it clear that the reader knows that he is not wanting to make the decision for him. However, he brings up a lot of points that he hopes the reader will take into consideration. The intended effect of this article is for the reader to make better choices when choosing to eat meat, or even going vegetarian altogether. By choosing to eat at small farms and local, this helps the

As humanity advances further into the 21st century, climate change continues to serve as a major obstacle in ensuring a secure world with the immediate and catastrophic dangers it presents. Major scientific organizations and governments over the years have created various programs to tackle this issue: creating carbon emission quotas, investing in green energy and even encouraging citizens to eat less meat and dairy. However, these programs need a lot of effort, funds, and cooperation to be successful and result in a drastic improvement. It is of little surprise that Allan Savory’s method of “holistic management” has gained tremendous popularity, as shown by the fact that his TED talk has two million views. Savory claims that carbon emissions can be reduced by using more herd animals to transform desert areas into lush environments. In a subject as critical as climate change, such an extraordinary idea needs to be able to stand strong against criticism, and George Monbiot, an ardent environmentalist, scrutinizes holistic management in his article “Eat More Meat and Save the World: The Latest Implausible Farming Miracle”. In the article, the rhetor Monbiot portrays holistic management as an improbable, unscientific idea that knowledgeable environmentalists should disregard with a scholarly and impartial tone that indicates his exigence, logos in the form of peer-reviewed studies and their relevance, and ethos via a visualization of Savory’s inability to defend his own

I was a little girl who loved animals, and could never see the point in killing something so beautiful and innocent. Yet year after year my dad would pester me about going deer hunting with him and my brother. My dad had grown up hunting and he had high expectations that his children would do the same. My brother, only two years older than me, followed in his footsteps and has always brought home enough food to feed our family. They always went hunting during the fall, which was only bow season. If they had no luck in bringing home a deer during that season then they would continue to hunt during the winter, which was gun season. But yet I seemed to disappoint my dad when I had no desire to hunt. I wasn’t fond of the idea of killing animals. Although during last year’s deer season that had to change, because my brother went off to college and he didn’t have enough time to go hunting. That meant my dad was relying on me to pick up where my brother left off. I didn’t exactly agree to it, but I told him I would try.