Most people shudder at the thought or sight of a Pit Bull and consider them vicious atrocities, but I will show that Pit Bulls are innocent and really are just misunderstood. I would like to give some facts, dispel some myths, and show the side of the breed that the media chooses not to tell. American Pit Bull Terriers were first introduced during World War I and World War II. The job of the Pit Bull was to deliver messages back and forth across the battlefield. Pit Bulls were first bred to bait bulls and bears as a sport back in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, but soon became more commonly used as house pets due to their friendliness towards people (Brom, 1987-09, p.14).
BSL is slowly being seen as ineffective laws because leaders of communities are being educated more about pit bulls. Pit bulls are not necessarily a breed of dog. Pit bulls are a category of dogs more than a breed. Pit bull usually groups 3 breeds of dog, “the American Pit Bull Terrier (APBT), American Staffordshire Terrier (AMSTAFF), and the Staffordshire Bull Terrier (STAFFIE)” (www.understand-a-bull.com, 2007). Pit bulls have been given a bad reputation because of all the media and press that pit bulls have been in.
Carter argues to support or enhance the key issues that eating meat is right based on superiority, self-consciousness, reasoning, moral capability, rights, duties, and sentience. Carter shows that the statement that animals have an interest in their own lives and that we should not treat them like things is a cornerstone in many vegetarian theories. But then he questions this argument in that even the smallest insect has an interest in its own life, but you do not see people actively opposing the killing of all living creatures. He also questions the statement that animals can even make this assertion and are not just living out of basic instinct. And, although a creature may try to stay alive, is it doing so out of the fact it doesn't want to die, or the basic instinct that it has to stay alive.
There has been much debate over corn fed beef vs. grass fed beef in recent years like which is better for the environment? Or is grass fed more nutritious than corn fed? Does corn fed beef taste better than grass fed? There are a lot of different opinions and research findings in favor of each idea but there is still no clear cut answer for any of the questions. Some people have asked if grass fed beef tastes better because you either know or feel like it had an easier life grazing somewhere nice and sunny with lots of grass to eat.
It has been and continues in some sectors to be very much about mass production and maximizing profits turned. According to some sources who would like to bash the inhumane butchering of animals, fast food industry is anything but ethical (History of, 2012). Watching this video makes me want to eat anything but meat, McDonald’s milkshakes, or anything McDonald’s in general. But due to the trend of Corporate Social Responsibility, many fast food chains have adopted a CSR and ethical model, such as Burger King and Chick-Fil-A. Values Drive Ethics I have chosen to review
The change in consumption would ultimately lead to famine in many thriving nations. Although Pelletier’s main goal is to discuss the flaws of eating locally, he also strives to present ways in which the idea of local eating could be incorporated in today’s society. By doing this he not only appeals to environmentalist, but to everyday individuals and families with tight budgets as
Swift uses satire to point out a problem and then assert an insane and illogical fix in order to cure it. He uses arguments such as it’s a commodity everyone can produce in order to defend his plan. Swift says that the meat of these children could be sold in taverns like beef and it would be easily produced even by poor people. This plan is insane just like Larkin’s
Essay #3: The Rhetoric of Vegetarianism Over years, people have found new technologies in processing foods. They invented machines that are able to produce meats from living animals in savage and sadistic ways. These people do whatever it takes to get the maximum benefit for their business without caring that these animals can actually suffer and feel the pain. To think even further, not only this act of animal abuse leads to a violation of nature law, but we also can see the negative effects by eating animals. Meats are one of the main causes of deathly diseases, such as cancer, heart disease, and others.
“Calories are calories…protein is protein,” as stated by Michael Pollen in his book, The Omnivores Dilemma, when discussing the industrial logic many factory farms associate with feeding cattle corn and rendered cow parts (Pollen, 2006, p.75). This is true at a molecular level; however, there are unwanted substances in corn fed beef. For example, there is an increased amount of saturated fat. “A growing body of research suggests that many of the health problems associated with eating beef are really problems with corn-fed beef” (Pollen p. 75). Adding in additional substances to the cows corn diet, such as remnant cow parts, has led to e-coli out breaks in humans and continued to spread mad cow disease.
Spurlock attacks McDonalds in this documentary about their food and how unhealthy it is but it is not only McDonalds that is a problem. All fast food restaurants are unhealthy and advertise the unhealthy and readily available cheeseburger and large fry. The point is that obesity is a very big problem in America and fast food restaurants are not going to change the way they make their food or advertise. Americans want to have to change for the problem of obesity to go away. Although this documentary is very blunt and sometimes sickening, it might help some Americans to see that fast food might lead them down a road of health problems and maybe