Eating Meat Persuasive Speech

Cancer, obesity, heart disease, type II diabetes, and many other diseases that kill millions of people every year are all kinds of diseases that seem to come out of nowhere. After studying graphs and other resources it is clear there is one enemy to this problem: Eating meat type foods. On the other hand, there is one solution to help fix this problem, food itself. We will be focusing in on one specific type of meat, steak, and how it affects the environment and everyone in it. Have you ever wondered how steak is turned from a cow to a delicious entre? Beef cattle production is the largest portion in American agriculture with the U.S. exporting 1.7 billion metric of tons of beef. Canada, Japan, Mexico, and Hong Kong were the top four markets that the U.S. sold beef too. It takes 2-3 years for a cow to got through the process of feeding, being bought at auctions, then turned to steak ready for consumption. The chemicals that come along with this delicious meal are hormones,
This is due to the macromolecules involved called carbohydrates, proteins, and lipids. Protein is in what you consume of the steak. This includes the carbohydrates involved in it such as sugars, starches, or fibers your body wants to absorb. This could cause you to be extremely addicted to these meat type products. Lipids can hurt the body by saturated and Trans fats in the product. If you take an overabundance of these two types of fats, the effect can cause different types of diseases and increase rates of cancer by increasing cholesterol levels. This is caused by digestion which usually occurs in small intestines. Enzymes help speed up reaction to form fatty acids which combine with cholesterol and bile and moves throughout your body to be stored in all different tissue. This is a main issue which causes different types of