Veganism
When I tell people that I’m going vegan they always ask, “Why? Why wouldn’t you eat meat? Where do you get your protein? How can you survive without bacon?” Usually I respond with something like, “why not?” Being vegan benefits animals, the environment, and my health and if I can do that by just changing what I eat, then that 's a pretty good deal. And that’s the simple way of explaining it. In those conversations, I could go into more detail about why I’m going vegan and talk about the agricultural industry and the health and environmental benefits of veganism but I never have enough time to explain. So that’s what I’m here to do today.
Everyone knows that in order to get meat, an animal needs to die. But not everyone knows the
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For example, the Humane Society raises money and asks for petition signatures to help save either dogs being killed in meat farms or give homes to animals they save from the slaughter. The Agricultural business is one of the biggest causes of climate change. When animals like cows and pigs go poo, Methane gas is released from their manure and into the atmosphere. This contributes to global warming and with over 75 billion animals produced each year that’s a big problem. As well, the amount of land used for providing space to farm these animals is the size of Africa, the second largest continent. Because by 2050 our population will reach around 9 billion people, logically, more land will need to be used and we won’t have enough space to hold the animals used to provide food for the growing population. Adopting a vegan diet clearly helps the environment for the better, but also helps a person’s physical health.
Meat contains a lot of saturated fat which is difficult for the body to digest. This is why after eating a meal containing meat, you feel full faster than after eating a plant based meal. This congestion also leads to, for some people, stomach problems. Adopting a lifestyle like veganism is more likely to help you avoid this problem. This is because fruits and vegetables contain natural sugars instead of artificial sugars which results in less concentrated
Animal cruelty is a significant issue, but for reasons unknown, the majority of the population is unaware of the extent of the cruelty directed toward farm animals. Most people do not consider the fact that the animal, now cooked on their dinner plate, was once alive. Consumers should be concerned about where their food comes from. Although trying to educate someone who does not recognize a problem with their lifestyle is a daunting task. (explain what kind of scholarly source here -I.e., the book compassionate choices….-) Compassionate Choices: Making a Difference for Animals attempts to convince meat-lovers that eating animals is cruel. In their brochure, Vegan Outreach effectively
Every year the meat industry is said to kill more than 66 billion animals for human consumption.
Exist many companies that raising well their animals but other that feed them with antibiotic, hormones, chemicals, etc. They just want to sell their product and make money but what happens with the persons who consumed that. Due to many children suffer of intoxication, allergy, etc. it causes serious illness problems, having no moral conscience on animal treatments, and the health of people. We need to try to consume health food instead buying fast food because we do not know how they prepared it or from where they got it. People can contribute to the cause of protecting farm animals by temporarily eating a vegan diet until laws are incorporated that prevent farm animal abuse, and promote welfare of farm animals during their lives. It is the ethically and morally correct decision to treat farm animals with respect. If people can do something to make a change for this cause, then they should, because it is for the benefit of both animals and
More than 150 billion animals are slaughtered each year. “Every year in America, without mercy, we murder 10 billion land animals, and 18 billion marine animals. Not for health, survival, sustenance or self-defense. People eat meat, cheese, milk and eggs for 4 reasons: habit, tradition, convenience, and taste.” (Yourofsky). Making people go vegan for a month or years, can significantly drop the high amount of animal cruelty that happen each day. This can cause an growth in the animal population. It can help animals live a happy life instead of being trap in a slaughterhouse waiting for their
The Go Vegan Campaign advocates for people to stop consuming animals by all means. This includes not eating meat, taking medications derived from animals, and not consuming products that have animal byproducts in them. For a very long time vegetarianism has been looked at as a fad diet that just didn’t seem to die down, but there is a deep truth behind this. Vegan practices advocate that animal meat is most people’s only source of cholesterol and therefore it is unhealthy to begin with. They argue there are other ways to get protein than protein, milk, and eggs, such as chia seeds and soy beans which are plant based, rich in protein, and vegan friendly. Plant based diets
Going vegetarian can help preserve the limited land and water system that us humans take for granted sometimes. Factory farming along with free range farming are destroying the earth and its biodiversity. When people think of pollution like unnecessary CO2 emissions and deforestation of rainforests, they do not think about the animals being raised for consumption. In an article, “Concentrated animal Agriculture Is The Biggest
Veganism has grown into a widespread trend in the last 70 years; in fact, in the United States approximately 3% of the population reports that they do not eat meat and about a third of this group declare themselves as vegan (Singer and Mason 187). Factory farming is an intensive method of farming that results in inexpensive meat products at the expense of one’s health, the environment, and animals (“Factory Farms”) . Moreover, this form of farming has led to the slow destruction of the planet, the mistreatment of animals, and the increase of various health diseases. Veganism is increasing due to the exposure of the secondary effects caused by industrialized
Animal agriculture is the leading cause of species extinction, water pollution, habitat destruction, and other issues (Center for Biological Diversity, 2014). How could this be? This is because about 94% of the US population are meat eaters and the industry does not tell you what happens behind their closed factory doors: the industry is the leading cause in both resource consumption and global warming, their meat can cause diseases that can be prevented, and the industry abuses their animals. Converting to a vegetarian or vegan diet might sound intimidating, or sound like we might not get all of the needed nutrients but there foods that vegetarians can eat to get what they need to get. Despite not eating meat on a regular basis there
Bill McKibben, as environmentalist and widely published author observes, that the more livestock produced in unethical ways, the more green gases emitted into the atmosphere. In McKibben view, “Going vegan is fifty percent more effective in reducing greenhouse gas emissions than switching to a hybrid car according to a University of Chicago study.(201)” McKibben claims that becoming a vegan is one of the only choices someone can make that can actually help the environment. Livestock produces most of the world’s greenhouse gases, when they belch and because the livestock is stuck in one place, all the manure is in one place just emitting gases. Vegans want people to stop eating meat, because the more people eat, the more meat needs to be produced, producing more greenhouse
Agriculture for meat and beef, eggs and dairy products are responsible for eighteen percent of all the greenhouse gas emission per year, which is more than the emissions of cars, planes, and trains together. And livestock and their byproducts are responsible for fifty-one percent of the greenhouse gas emissions worldwide and for up to ninety percent of water consumption in the U.S.. Thousands of gallons of water are used to produce beef, eggs and dairy products. More than half of the oceans are fished and two acres of the rainforest get destroyed every second for food production. Switching to a vegan lifestyle can decrease all these factors and make the world we live in now exist longer.
What if I told you, what you choose to put on your plate has the ability to help save our home, the earth, would you believe me? We assume we don’t have the power to stop the terrible things that seem to be happening in our world more and more lately, but the truth is that it is actually all in our hands. It all depends on what we choose to do or do not do that make all the difference. We are the problem, the ones who put the earth in the situation it is in now, however we could also be the solution and fix it, if and only if we come together and understand the reality of the problem we are in. So what does this have to do with what we choose to put on our plate you ask? Well unless you are a vegan or a vegetation, the animal you choose to consume is playing an enormous role in climate change, deforestation, species
Diets that focus on animal products, like meat, dairy, and eggs, require disproportionate high amounts of resources like water and land. Additionally, animals produce huge amounts of greenhouse gas emissions that are responsible for climate change. Such diets are not great for the environment that surrounds us, but more and more studies also link them to chronic diseases and early deaths. If the way we eat is bad for us and for the environment, we should inform ourselves about the potential impact of changing our diets.
Consumption of meat by humans creates several problems. First and foremost, raising animals for food compromises the environment. For example, it takes a large amount of natural resources to sustain the meat industry. The use of water, land, and food to raise animals for human consumption is not an efficient use of our limited resources. In contrast, it is more efficient to feed humans directly than to use land, food, and water to feed animals to be used as food. There are shortages of fertile land, clean water, and food in several third world countries. Many of these countries’ resources are allocated to produce feed for animals in developed countries around the world. As a result, the citizens of these countries are stricken with water and food shortages, while their crops are feeding cattle from across the globe. However, this problem can be solved by adopting a vegan diet. The vegan diet will allow a more efficient use of resources that in turn can be used to feed starving men, women, and children throughout the world. Consequently, more people in the world could be fed if the land used to grow feed for animals was used to grow food for humans.
We in this country have been indoctrinated by capitalism and the industrial agriculture system to believe that we need an unnecessary amount of meat in our diets. The only reason we eat so much meat is so that faceless food corporations can make money off of us. We are one of the most overfed countries in the history of the world, while at the same time there are so many starving countries. “It is estimated that poor nutrition, whether through malnutrition or overeating, ‘easily accounts for more than half of the global burden of disease’” (Henning 66). When it comes
The implications of eating vegetables and other plant life are vast. As a result, plant eaters are depleting the amount of oxygen made in our world by these plants which means there is less oxygen for us humans to breathe. Eating these plants robs the animals of their food. Animals need food too, and it is just selfish to pilfer their food to be “healthy,” or to “protect the animals.” Eating meat after the animals eat the plants is just as healthy as it is for us to eat the plants directly.