In the book, Bloom said “it’s easier for today’s children to waste food because they are so removed from its origins.” The reason why we waste food easily is we don’t have the chance to plant, water, or nurse the plants by ourselves, so we don’t know how hard it is to plant and grow the food. After reading this book, I feel so sorry for what I did every day by wasting my food and I have decided to do something better such as ordering less amount of food and take any leftovers home and cook them with other ingredients to make them into new dish, instead of throwing them into the trash can. If we can continue doing this, food wastes can be decreased. Also, we should care about our environment by not tossing the food into the trash because wasting food can negatively impact our environment, which will reduce our natural resources. For
She claims that the Prius became a standard for environmentalism because of its low emissions, however the real issue is not vehicle emissions, but it is raising a preparing livestock for food.Freston continues by saying that a large issue is the gases produced, not only carbon dioxide but methane and nitrous oxide and that these gases come primarily from farmed animals. She ends by claiming becoming vegetarian has never been easier due to the immense amount of vegetarian friendly foods that have come about in recent years. The main appeal of the essay is the logical appeal. Freston uses hard evidence from sources such as reports published from the United Nations which concluded, “The livestock sector emerges as one of the top two or three most significant contributors to the most serious environmental problems, at every scale from local to global.” (800)This is effective because is shows the reader that the issue of environmental problems is even being noticed by the United Nations. Freston continues by stating “the U.N. report says almost a fifth of global warming emissions come from livestock - that’s more emissions than from all of the world’s transportation combined.” (800) This can be alarming for the reader and is effective
As a result of this lax auditing of its suppliers, McDonald’s was forced to retroactively create a large-scale soya initiative, enacted after Greenpeace’s outcry. There is a noticeable increase of about $2.12 billion in McDonald’s fixed costs from 2006 to 2007. In fact, the EBITDA margin declined from 26.27% in 2006 to 21.99% in 2007. Part of those costs, perhaps $200 million, is assumed to be due to the initiative. To avoid the costs of this kind of large-scale initiative in the future, McDonald’s needs to enact a solution involving stricter auditing of its suppliers, sustainability education throughout its supply chain, and the purchasing of chickens, for example, in line with sustainability goals.
There are also a lot of claims of negative health effects. This also goes for milk and meat. Milk does a body good, is the saying that’s been around for years, but is it? People eat and drink every day without someone thinking about if what they are ingesting is actually good for their bodies or just filling that empty stomach, which could have negative long term effects. Milk and meat have more positive effects on the human body than negative.
If government adds more tax people would spend less money. If they spend less money it would make them smaller because you aren’t eating a lot fast food. I think the government should allow more tax to fast food restaurants because it would help hospitals fund more money to do research and find a cure for cancer. If everybody only goes to fast food restaurants at least once a month, the human race would live longer. The oldest woman in the United States only went to fast food restaurants once every other week and she is still living today.
There have been numerous recorded examples of drugs that have worked on animals, but then proceeded to not work on humans. Animal testing is misleading, “94% of drugs that pass animal tests fail in human clinical trials” (Nine). Not only does this prove that animal testing is ultimately ineffective, but it also shows how the deceiving results could potentially cause harm to humans. For example, in the 1950s a sleeping pill called thalidomide was commercially released as it was proved to be effective on animals. However, the pill went on to cause more than 10,000 babies to be born with birth defects (Science).
In some cases, lack of food isn’t a problem; it’s how it is distributed by the government. In these situations cannibalism would still provide for relieving issues of pollution due to transportation costs. These costs are primarily due to the use of carbon-based fuels for the transportation of meat products. Under the current system, meat is processed at some central location and then through use of trucks and rail it is transferred to other locations that are sometimes thousands of miles away. This increases the cost of the food and increases pollution through exhaust emissions of the transportation mechanisms.
Answers to insecurities and questions asked by some of the consumers could put a positive light on their acceptance of the meat. Another major factor that participants of the meat industry opined was the feasibility and sustainability of the production technology as cost of production is a key factor. Most participants in the study had a very positive view about cultured meat and were willing to try it. Cultured meat will likely become a success over the next 10-20 years, with relatively high acceptance rate. Perhaps the United Sates would be the first country to bring the meat to mass production and create the largest market for cultured
At this time industrial businesses are proficient enough to decrease production expenses and make available enormous quantities of meat at lower prices, so that most families are able to put meat on the table. They can do this every meal, and not just once a week or once a day. The lower prices of meat are due to the industrialization of factory farming. Although factory farming produces food at larger quantities with low cost, it causes problems such as, environmental damage, the unpleasant treatment of animals, and the use of antibiotics. The documentary Food Inc. touches on these topics and shows how little consumers know about what they eat and where it derives from.
There are several reasons to why animal testing needs to be stopped. The method of animal testing is ‘bad science’ since The Food and Drug Administration reports that 92 out of every 100 drugs that pass animal tests fail in humans. Animals might have similarities to humans but they’re not exactly the same, which means testing on animals is useless. Because of that, animal testing is also an act of wasting our time, money and resources that we can spend on other human-relevant researches. In America, 106,000 deaths a year are attributed to reactions to medical drugs.