Respecting the Sport of Hunting Without Being Wasteful Hunters need to be more respectful to their traditional sport by making full use of their acquired game because being wasteful is bad character and sportsmanship. The sport of hunting has been around since Adam was kicked out of the garden. It is especially a North American tradition. Our fore-fathers and the Indians both hunted game to provide meat for their families. Their source of survival has turned into our past-time.
It is one thing when industries cut corners and produce inferior products for a to use, but then it is another thing when that product is something that we eat and that we feed our children. When it comes to animals, and how we get our food, there needs to be more than just profit to consider. Not only do we have to worry about our own health and how the process may affect the food we eat, but we also have to think about the animals. Animals are kept in inhumane living conditions just so that we can produce food at a cheaper price. More people can be fed at a lower cost when using factory farming, but it may not be worth the harm it causes the animals, our environment, and possibly our food.
This also may explain our preference for meat, as our diet used to consist mainly of animal organs, which are packed full of nutrients and protein; Milton (2008) said that it was very important that our ancestors ate meat, as it acted as a catalyst for the brains development and turned us into the intelligent species tha€t we are today. Therefore this could explain why nowadays we favour foods which are fatty and full of calories such as fast food. There is some argument as to whether humans were vegetarians in the EEA. However, anthropological evidence by Abrams demonstrates that all societies display a preference for animal food and fats, also it would not have been possible for early humans to be completely vegetarian as they would not have been able to get sufficient calories from the plants and grains available. Therefore, this is more evidence for human's preference of meat as it contains quite a lot of calories.
There is no doubt about the benefits of eating plants which promote health. However, back to livestock products. It had become industrial and has been marketed heavily, creating unnatural demand. Therefore, people are affected by this problem. According to the author Jennifer Goldberg who wrote ‘4 reasons why you overeat’ (n.d.), there are four main explanations why we eat too much food, including meat and meat-free products: The first reason is we are in the habit of overeating.
Autonomous, antipatriarchal being is clearly vegetarian. To destabilize patriarchal consumption we must interrupt patriarchal meals of meat” (200). In contrast, Kathryn Paxton George argues that feminists should boycott not meat but, rather, ethical vegetarianism, on the grounds that it assumes a ‘male physiological ideal’ that ultimately reduces most women, children, and many elderly people to second-class moral citizens. Because women, children, and a large number of people living in poor and/or developing countries are nutritionally vulnerable in comparison to the male physiological ideal, “[t]hey are physiologically barred from ‘doing the right thing’ because they are not ‘being the right thing’” (106). Paxton George concludes that vegetarian diets are not morally superior to diets that include the consumption of animal products; she advocates a view that treats dietary choices as expressing “intersubjectively valid aesthetic [as opposed to moral] values” (171).
A Comparison of the Paleolithic and Contemporary Diets. Dorothy E. St. Louis Sci/241 The beginning of the industrial revolution, agriculture, and domestication of animals began the changes in the human diet. Prior to this change, Homo sapiens were hunter-gatherers with food sources from hunting wild game, and digging tuberous roots and nuts with very little grains and no dairy products at all. While some individuals claim that since we are more knowledgeable today, we are more conscious of our health, other's claim we are unhealthier today than ever before. There are individuals who claim in the media that we need to return to the way our ancestors consumed food, the Stone Age Diet or Paleo-diet is one such claim.
Therefore it may not be due to innate preferences. Furthermore out ancestors diets consisted of plant food until the decline of the quality of plant food available to them due to receding forests. This forced them to include meat in their diet which they obtained from animals and fed on the fattiest part of the animal such as the liver or brain (therefore being high in calories). By including meat in their diet they increased in intelligence due to the meat being a catalyst for the growth and development of the brain. Milton (2008) argues without meat it is unlikely that we would have developed the modern brain size.
Smoking can be considered a type of culinary art, because there are various factors that add to the exact flavorings of meat. Only meat that has been fermented, salted, or cured should be cold-smoked, to prevent illness. Considering McCandless’s skill, knowledge, and information he received over his trip, he might have been trying to cold-smoke the meat, although hot-smoking it might have also been an option from the text reporting that he was using a hole in the ground, kind of like a smokehouse. This would not have done much good however, because any kind of smoking requires quite a bit of time to prepare, and the meat needs a better sealed environment, not a simple dirt hole stuffed with
Meat from hunts were considered the bigger prize, but they weren’t always successful. When the men came back empty-handed, the people would rely on plant foods gathered from the women. Both did their part to ensure everyone’s survival. But, then a new era started where societies would rely on nurturing plants and animals. This meant no more moving from place to place.
Submitted by: John Kenneth J. Fernandez Submitted to: Maam Lua Burias Thesis Statement: Although junk food is convenient, inexpensive, and is basically a cultural phenomenon, we as a society need to stop eating junk food because it has increased health problems, has taken away from family core values, destroys the environment, and has created a food economy dominated by giant corporations. I. Introduction What is Junk Food? The term “junk food” is used to describe food which is low in nutritional value, with a comparatively high caloric value. Many people try to avoid or limit junk food in their diets, out of concerns that such food is not healthy, despite the fact that numerous food manufacturers produce a range of products which could be considered junk food.