Of Mice And Cheese Research Paper
Mmm. McChicken sandwich. Crisp, warm and juicy. Who wants it? Here you are. Go ahead and eat it. What’s in it? Bread, Lettuce, Cheese, Another creature’s life, and BBQ sauce. And if you’re wondering what kind of life went in to your stomach. (show picture 1) It was her mother, and the McDonalds you‘ll be going to in three weeks will be serving her. Can you honestly look into her eyes and explain to her why she doesn‘t have a mother. Imagine if you were without your mother, and if your mother was killed in front of you, fried and eaten by another.
I do not mean to offend anyone in this room, and my goal is not to criticize, but to educate. No soul should have to give their life to feed our hungry stomachs. I understand that every one of us …show more content…
in this room knows that an animal had to die for our food. I will tell you about the lives of these innocent animals, and about being vegetarian and I do not expect anyone to walk out of this room proclaiming themselves vegetarian, but the next time you chomp on your chicken burger, or any meat for that matter, remember the precious lives that were killed and take a moment to be grateful for its sacrifice.
Farm animals are living, complex beings.
Factory farming is heartless and cruel. These poor animals that we devour for our so-called “lunch”, are cramped into small cages and then overfed. Cows are tied up in little corners, and are not allowed to move, so their muscle will be soft and not too fibrous. The chicken you eat is not an old one that passed away, but it is a newborn baby chick that is overfed and fattened to increase its body mass about 50% a day. This obesity causes the chickens to have much trouble breathing, and weak bones. And then they are hung by their legs by large machinery, and an assembly line of hanging live chicks get their throats slit one by one, while they are still conscious. The chickens which are hanging upside down, continue down a large assembly line, slowly dying, with their blood oozing down from their throat into large gutters, After about a minute of a most painful suffering, the chickens reach the slaughter, where the heads of the chickens are chopped off. This same process is used even to kill cows, goats, and pigs. These animals suffer extreme neglect, suffering and death. Can you but imagine such a life? And for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that proportion of life and time it had been born to …show more content…
enjoy.
Modern research has shown that meat eating is linked to killer diseases like cancer and heart-diseases.
Vegetarians are about 50% less likely to get stroke and about 25% - 50% less chance of arthritis, prostate cancer, kidney failure and colon cancer. Excess animal proteins can cause heart disease, diabetes, hormonal disorders and obesity. Plant based diets are cholesterol free, and you can still get all the protein, calcium and iron you need. 1 cup of boiled spinach will give you 5.4 grams of protein and 15.7 milligrams of iron. That's almost 40 times the amount of iron you’d get from a pan fried pork chop. You’ll get 4.6 grams of protein and 1.9 milligrams of iron from a cup of broccoli. Replacing meat, chicken and fish with vegetables and fruits is estimated to cut food bills by an average of $4,000 a
year.
We make such a fuss about legal and illegal logging, mining, urbanisation and road construction, but all this only adds up to about 6% of the worlds deforestation and water pollution. 60% is actually due to cattle ranches. Livestock production is the largest polluter of water. Meat based diets are wasteful. Every packet, container and bag used in the production process of meat has to go somewhere. Vegetarian diets are far more sustainable. A farm in Milford, which raises 2.5 million pigs every year, creates more waste than the entire city of Los Angeles. Raising animals for food is an extremely inefficient way to feed a growing human population. It takes 2,500 gallons of water to produce one pound of beef, but just 25 gallons of water to produce a pound of wheat. It takes 15 pounds of feed to get one pound of meat. But if the grain were given directly to people, there would be enough food to feed the entire planet. The world’s cattle – excluding pigs and chickens – consume quantity of food the equivalent to the caloric needs of 8.7 billion people. That’s nearly double the entire population of the world today. This is a very inefficient way to produce food.
Close your eyes. Take a minute to step away from your gourmet meals and look deep into the eyes of any animal, and then for a moment, trade places. Their life becomes as precious as yours, and you become as vulnerable as them. Then whom can you hurt? What harm can you do? Now smile if you believe they deserve to live, for in a way, they are us, and we are them. Go vegetarian; for health, for animals, for earth. Save everything.
I do not mean to offend anyone in this room, and my goal is not to criticize, but to educate. No soul should have to give their life to feed our hungry stomachs. I understand that every one of us …show more content…
in this room knows that an animal had to die for our food. I will tell you about the lives of these innocent animals, and about being vegetarian and I do not expect anyone to walk out of this room proclaiming themselves vegetarian, but the next time you chomp on your chicken burger, or any meat for that matter, remember the precious lives that were killed and take a moment to be grateful for its sacrifice.
Farm animals are living, complex beings.
Factory farming is heartless and cruel. These poor animals that we devour for our so-called “lunch”, are cramped into small cages and then overfed. Cows are tied up in little corners, and are not allowed to move, so their muscle will be soft and not too fibrous. The chicken you eat is not an old one that passed away, but it is a newborn baby chick that is overfed and fattened to increase its body mass about 50% a day. This obesity causes the chickens to have much trouble breathing, and weak bones. And then they are hung by their legs by large machinery, and an assembly line of hanging live chicks get their throats slit one by one, while they are still conscious. The chickens which are hanging upside down, continue down a large assembly line, slowly dying, with their blood oozing down from their throat into large gutters, After about a minute of a most painful suffering, the chickens reach the slaughter, where the heads of the chickens are chopped off. This same process is used even to kill cows, goats, and pigs. These animals suffer extreme neglect, suffering and death. Can you but imagine such a life? And for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that proportion of life and time it had been born to …show more content…
enjoy.
Modern research has shown that meat eating is linked to killer diseases like cancer and heart-diseases.
Vegetarians are about 50% less likely to get stroke and about 25% - 50% less chance of arthritis, prostate cancer, kidney failure and colon cancer. Excess animal proteins can cause heart disease, diabetes, hormonal disorders and obesity. Plant based diets are cholesterol free, and you can still get all the protein, calcium and iron you need. 1 cup of boiled spinach will give you 5.4 grams of protein and 15.7 milligrams of iron. That's almost 40 times the amount of iron you’d get from a pan fried pork chop. You’ll get 4.6 grams of protein and 1.9 milligrams of iron from a cup of broccoli. Replacing meat, chicken and fish with vegetables and fruits is estimated to cut food bills by an average of $4,000 a
year.
We make such a fuss about legal and illegal logging, mining, urbanisation and road construction, but all this only adds up to about 6% of the worlds deforestation and water pollution. 60% is actually due to cattle ranches. Livestock production is the largest polluter of water. Meat based diets are wasteful. Every packet, container and bag used in the production process of meat has to go somewhere. Vegetarian diets are far more sustainable. A farm in Milford, which raises 2.5 million pigs every year, creates more waste than the entire city of Los Angeles. Raising animals for food is an extremely inefficient way to feed a growing human population. It takes 2,500 gallons of water to produce one pound of beef, but just 25 gallons of water to produce a pound of wheat. It takes 15 pounds of feed to get one pound of meat. But if the grain were given directly to people, there would be enough food to feed the entire planet. The world’s cattle – excluding pigs and chickens – consume quantity of food the equivalent to the caloric needs of 8.7 billion people. That’s nearly double the entire population of the world today. This is a very inefficient way to produce food.
Close your eyes. Take a minute to step away from your gourmet meals and look deep into the eyes of any animal, and then for a moment, trade places. Their life becomes as precious as yours, and you become as vulnerable as them. Then whom can you hurt? What harm can you do? Now smile if you believe they deserve to live, for in a way, they are us, and we are them. Go vegetarian; for health, for animals, for earth. Save everything.