Little do you know; you’re oblivious to the hidden dangers of the meat industry. Companies hide the bad side of meat. They don’t tell you every single detail, because they’d be out of business. I truly believe that everyone should be a vegetarian. People would be much healthier and we would have to worry less about our depleting natural resources.i ii iii v
Multiple tests and experiments have shown that consumption of meat could lead to many different health problems. A Harvard study has shown that daily consumption of red meat is linked to increase in death rate. Countries with lower fat/animal fat intake have lower breast cancer rates. Furthermore, daily consumption of red meat raises the risk of colon cancer by approximately three times. …show more content…
World hunger is an issue that can be helped if people stopped eating meat. We grow fields and fields of wheat that go directly to animals’ feed boxes. It takes 13 pounds of wheat to make a single pound of meat. That is 12 pounds of wheat we could have fed to hungry people. It also wastes tons of water. Water is also a big issue as many people struggle to get it while we waste so much. Even though animals raised for meat don’t reach full maturity because of cost, producing one pound of meat, which can easily be consumed by a family, uses up an astonishing 2400 gallons of water. But, one pound of wheat …show more content…
People think that we were meant to eat meat. But animals on farms weren’t always mistreated. Nowadays, the ways humans treat farm animals are cruel and unnecessary. Usually, major farms keep their animals in puny cages, not even big enough for them to walk or turn around. Some companies put labels on their meats claiming to be “Humane” or “Organic”. How can meat be humane? They are still being slaughtered. It is not like all the animals lived happily or to their full potential. The farms still have to make money, so they cannot afford to keep animals alive for long. As for organic, the actual word does not mean that they lived better lives. They are still dunked in boiling hot water and kept in contaminated cages.vii Even though there are undercover videos of animal cruelty, why don’t we stop? It is horrible what we do to them, how is this
Multiple tests and experiments have shown that consumption of meat could lead to many different health problems. A Harvard study has shown that daily consumption of red meat is linked to increase in death rate. Countries with lower fat/animal fat intake have lower breast cancer rates. Furthermore, daily consumption of red meat raises the risk of colon cancer by approximately three times. …show more content…
World hunger is an issue that can be helped if people stopped eating meat. We grow fields and fields of wheat that go directly to animals’ feed boxes. It takes 13 pounds of wheat to make a single pound of meat. That is 12 pounds of wheat we could have fed to hungry people. It also wastes tons of water. Water is also a big issue as many people struggle to get it while we waste so much. Even though animals raised for meat don’t reach full maturity because of cost, producing one pound of meat, which can easily be consumed by a family, uses up an astonishing 2400 gallons of water. But, one pound of wheat …show more content…
People think that we were meant to eat meat. But animals on farms weren’t always mistreated. Nowadays, the ways humans treat farm animals are cruel and unnecessary. Usually, major farms keep their animals in puny cages, not even big enough for them to walk or turn around. Some companies put labels on their meats claiming to be “Humane” or “Organic”. How can meat be humane? They are still being slaughtered. It is not like all the animals lived happily or to their full potential. The farms still have to make money, so they cannot afford to keep animals alive for long. As for organic, the actual word does not mean that they lived better lives. They are still dunked in boiling hot water and kept in contaminated cages.vii Even though there are undercover videos of animal cruelty, why don’t we stop? It is horrible what we do to them, how is this