The Bob Evans Company: The Bird Flu Epidemic

To improve their articles support, the writers for Vegan Outreach should rely mainly on logos to back up their claim that animal consumption is morally wrong and that they should switch to a less cruel alternatives to source food. Although the authors do originally provide evidence throughout the text, their argument is poorly constructed. For example, in one case Vegan Outreach used a statistic without indicating from where they attained the statistic “...[b]y avoiding the meat of chickens, turkeys, and pigs, you can prevent the suffering of more than two thousand of these animals during your lifetime!” (11). The initial issue with Vegan Outreach’s document is that it fails to reference their work, the second issue is that it does little to reference the sample statistics of other animals, which makes their application of logos unreliable. In addition, this example statistic is not their

Peta investigation found a farmer killing injured turkeys by beating them with a metal rod, leaving them alive and tossing them aside to slowly die. The industry deemed this act as legal and ignored the farmers beating the turkeys. Many turkeys were taken to the slaughter sick and half dead for being loaded on the transportation truck and given no water or food and traveling through unforeseen weather conditions. The final words of Alec Baldwin from the PETA investigation is when you sit down at your table, become a vegetarian for the sake of all the animals in the world. The problem with the animals continue to be abuse are people turning their heads to the abuse. The profits from the animals are more important than their treatment.

As CFA strives to be the best “quick-service restaurant”, key external factors affect CFA. Demographics is a major threat, this includes race, age and gender. CFA is family oriented and believes in marriage, but a comment he made on this issue earned him a bad publicity. However, that created an opportunity in the Christian community. Despite the harm of this factor, revenue went up same year. His adherence to his principles proved to people that CFA would not downplay its core values. Another threat are rivalry and intense competitors. The industry is a 120 million dollar industry with about 50 percent offering the hamburger entrees. (hoovers.com 2008). Some of these competitors are KFC, Subway, Burger King, McDonalds and Taco Bell. New entrants is a threat to CFA, example is Oporto who just made its way into the United States. There is also the threat from substitutes. Since Sundays are off days for CFA, customers will like to look for substitutes, and if rivals provided them, this might affect CFA. Example of substitute from rival is McDonalds southern chicken sandwich which in fact can come with biscuit and pickles in the morning. The crave for

• “Food With Integrity” mission statement at risk. As identified in the 2011 annual report, organic and natural foods take a much longer time to grow and it also take much longer time to qualify suppliers. Due to the weak economic environment, many large suppliers do not see the benefit in sustainable farming practices thus was forced to revert to the traditional practices. To meet the demand of Chipotle’s expansion, a few of Chipotle’s markets reverted back to serving the conventionally raise beef in early 2012. This can potentially make Chipotle to become less popular among its customer and sales could decline as a result.

A research by Antun and Gustafson (2005) focused on restaurants and clubs’ menus in the United States. The authors compared the menus to determine how they should be planned, and what impact it has on the customers. Although this study did not target vegetarians in particular, it took into account the health factor. In order to compare the menus, the researchers chose 61 different restaurants and clubs. They did not choose the samples randomly, they selected 36 upscale restaurants and 25 clubs “serving American or Continental cuisine” (Antun &

Chipotle’s threats arise from fierce competition in their market segment of quick-service and casual dining because competitors offer lower cost and value menu options. Increased labor cost impact their operating costs and increasing food safety measures and regulations might increase related

Changes in customer preferences, general economic conditions, discretionary spending priorities, demographic trends, traffic patterns and the type, number and location of competing restaurants have a moderate effect on the restaurant industry (Chipotle, 2010). One example of customer preferences being a driver in the industry is the “Whole Food-ism Movement” which has put a large focus on organic, antibiotic-free, and non-processed foods (Mansolillo, 2007). Consumers now look for healthier options when eating and an overall healthier lifestyle. Chipotle has been able to benefit from this movement by carrying on their “Food with Integrity” mission (Chipotle, 2010).

Once there was a virus named Birdie. This virus was a Bird Flu, or Avian Influenza, virus of the subtype H5N1, the first strain of Avian Influenza having the ability to infect humans (Normandin and Solan). Birdie looked like a microscopic pomander, a fragrant orange with cloves stuck in it. Inside, she had eight pieces of single stranded ribonucleic acid or ssRNA. Birdie was deadly to humans, but was not able to spread from one human to another. She could only spread from birds to humans ("Bird Flu"). Birdie started out inside a chicken named Cluck, where she was formed. A little while later, Cluck's farmer Mark, sold his Cluck, to Joe, another poultry farmer because Mark did not realize that Cluck had H5N1. After a few months of Cluck living

In the article, In Defense of the Animals, the author Meg Greenfield discusses why animal rights activists’ fight for the protection of animals. Society has become numb to the brutality, pain and suffering caused to animals in pointless acts. Brutality such as clubbing baby seals to death for their skins, raising animals for food in dismal conditions and conducting scientific studies on animals for the cosmetic industries profit are unnecessary. Even when scientific experiments on animals are to find medical cures for the human race, they are practiced in uncaring methods usually ending in animals being euthanized. Animal rights activists who speak for the protection of animals has gone to the extreme by trying to stop all cure related experiments

The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is one of the most recognizable organizations within the animal rights movement, due in part to their attention grabbing antics and controversial advertisements. While PETA has been successful in creating visual rhetoric that generally appeals to the audience’s cognitive reasoning and emotions they are often not successful in catalyzing actual change in behaviour.

At this rate, food prices for a few key ingredients have increased significantly over the year 2015 and are likely to go higher in 2016. Having said that, bad weather, and the mandatory animal welfare criteria that goes with their Food with Integrity focus also contribute to the change in price and availability of ingredients. All of this could eventually affect the menu offers, and may adversely affect

Avian influenza is a disease that has been wreaking havoc on human populations since the 16th century. With the recent outbreak in 1997 of a new H5N1 avian flu subtype, the world has begun preparing for a pandemic by looking upon its past affects. In the 20th Century, the world witnessed three pandemics in the years of 1918, 1957, and 1968. In 1918 no vaccine, antibiotic, or clear recognition of the disease was known. Killing over 40 million in less than a year, the H1N1 strain ingrained a deep and lasting fear of the virus throughout the world. Though 1957 and 1968 brought on milder pandemics, they still killed an estimated 3 million people and presented a new

Over fifty-six billion animals are slaughtered yearly for consumption, but because we are conditioned from a young age to view animals as resources, we neglect that they are passionate and intelligent living beings. Cows want to enjoy their lives, pigs want to enjoy their lives, and many other farm animals want to enjoy their lives but instead are abused and confined in small cages. Ironically, though, when someone does likewise to a cat or dog, they’re prosecuted. The sole solution to these inhumane acts is Veganism. Veganism is the ideal diet because plant-based foods are plentiful, and it recognizes the unethical treatment of animals.

Develop product lines by introducing vegetable sandwiches (Appendix 4) shows an increase in cash inflow from 155% in 2013 to 319% in 2015

Many animal advocates eat meat, and more meat is consumed each year by Americans alone than the number of animals tested internationally (ProCon Team). People fully against animal testing would need to maintain vegan or raw diets, in which they do not consume any products that have come from animals. For example, vegans restrict themselves from eating eggs, as they believe it is animal abuse against the unborn (Woods). Additionally, protesters of animal testing would not be able to take life-saving medicines and vaccines as it would clearly interfere with their ideologies (Youngdahl, ProCon Team). Protesters would also be unable to use products such as insect repellent, as it restricts mosquitoes and other insects from taking human fluids, such as blood, which is vital for their life and reproduction. People who argue this prove that humans value certain species over others. Protesters often relate animal testing to the pets many of us love, such as felines and canines, which make up a miniscule portion of animals tested. Being that there are common products and methods to restrict rodents and not domestic homeless animals proves that speciesism is prevalent among all humans, including protesters.