But is this true? As we can truly say, nutritionism is not actually benefiting society in general because it lacks real food, it’s more expensive, and causes many diseases; however, nutritionism can be very successful for the world of business of industries. When we talk about real food, it means recognizable, good quality, whole food that rots when it's kept for too long. These foods are the ones our ancestors used to eat on a regular basis until it was replaced with a whole new type of nutrition one, in which chemically-infused, food- like materials focused mainly on nutritional facts. For example, when we go in the supermarket to buy food we read the facts in the back of the product checking what types nutrition it has, and how much it has.
Forks Over Knives Forks Over Knives is a documentary directed by Lee Fulkerson, who takes you through his own journey to healthy living. The film is centered on eating habits of Americans in comparison to other countries and other time periods. What our generation consumes is severely impacting our national health care budget and our own personal health. The documentary focuses on two doctors: Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn, M.D. and Colin Campbell, Ph.D.
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.
BSL was made to try to regulate specific breeds of dogs. Usually, BSL targets breeds that are thought of as dangerous breeds. Proponents of BSL claim that BSL is a great way to reduce the threatening pit bull breed (www.animallaw.info, 2007). People who support BSL usually have imagined pit bulls as vicious dogs bred just to fight. BSL is slowly being seen as ineffective laws because leaders of communities are being educated more about pit bulls.
In the article “This must never happen again” by Cathy Martin, Coldstream in The Age, published on June 9th 2011, she is telling the reader that only humans are only dominant enough to declare themselves owner of all other animals, which leads them with a huge role of responsibility. Cathy Martin would rather see meat prices go up instead of seeing the animals get hurt and harmed like they did shown on Four Corners. I would have to agree with this because it is wrong in so many ways with was done to the cattle. I would also feel sympathy for the 1200 peoples’ lives and jobs depend on the live export trade but maybe the ones that are to lose their jobs could help form a new authority to oversee the strict new standards relating to the future slaughter of Australian animals. The last argument supported in this issue is the use of the restraining boxes; a restraining box is used to restrain animals and to “stun” them quickly and accurately before slaughter- and in which a ‘stun gun’ is to render the animal unconscious.
While some argued that it is the fault of food industries, and for some, fault of consumers, it can easily be resolved with two words: self-responsibility. Therefore, consumers are definitely the ones responsible for the current epidemic in this country. The first reason why consumers are responsible for America’s obesity epidemic is because consumers are the ones that choose what to eat and feed their children. There are many alternatives to fast food but most people rather not take their time to prepare for a healthier meal. In “The Battle against Fast Food Begins in Home”, author Daniel Weibtraub tries to convince parents to take a stand and fend off obesity in their homes.
I don’t think that I would want to go back to eating meat. If anything, I expect to learn new ways to overcome the various obstacles that may get in my way and become a stronger person for it. I see vegetarianism as a character builder as well as a sacrifice, but could also be a burden or viewed as a quirk. “Cardiovascular disease kills 1 million Americans anually and is the leading cause of death in the United States…” say Joel Fuhrman, MD author of Eat to Live: The Revolutionary Formula for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss. (Vegetarian Times / Why Go Veg) There are many benefits to becoming a vegetarian.
The food tools or guidance system for food groups that until 2005 had been symbolized by the basic food pyramid. That was replaced in 2011, and nutrition labels. This food guide is intended as a tool for us to eat more healthfully, giving us the means to measure our intake of many foods against what we should really be
Confined by 100 Miles From vegans to vegetarians to pescetarians, there’s now a shift among carnivores to herbivores to locavores. Ethical eating and food production intellect Christophe Pelletier coined this new term, “Locavores”, in his December 2010 blog post “The Locavore’s Dilemma” on his website The Food Futurist. These locavores in his town of Vancouver, British Columbia are claiming that sustaining on a diet through food produced within a 100 mile radius is the most beneficial. However, Pelletier argues against this statement by expanding the issue of locavores globally to question, “If local consumption is the rule for food, should not it be the rule for everything as well?” (Lunsford, 704). Pelletier’s rhetorical question is answered by the reality of the situation that local food consumption is not entirely beneficial to society as a whole.
Similarly the president of the United States signed ‘’calorie labels into law when he signed the health care act’’, the introduction of calorie labels made it compulsory for all restaurants and food manufacturers to add a calorie count to all the foods that they serve. These calorie counts impact Burger king both financially and competitively; since the no. of calories in different foods of Burger King would be made present to consumers, they would maybe be reluctant to purchase these foods due to the high amount of calories (which contributes to obesity), as a result the sales revenue of Burger King may drop and consumers might eat at restaurants, which have a lower no. of calories in their foods. So therefore the introduction of new laws impacts Burger King in many ways.