Comm 301 130pm MW
11/17/2010
Is Eating Pork Really Worth It
Persuasive Speech: Anti-Pork
Purpose: To persuade the audience to stop eating pig/pork products.
Introduction A. Attention Getter: Youtube Video; Cysticercosis. B. Establish Significance: According to a USDA report titled factors affecting U.S. pork consumption by Christopher Davis and Biing-Hwan Linn, pork ranks first in per capita meat consumption in the world and third in the United States. Higher income consumers tend to consume less pork. Usda. Health and science editor Maggie wrote in worms infect more poor Americans than thought in dec 25th of 2007 C. Relate to the Audience: It is in no doubt that many of us consume or have consumed pork on a …show more content…
According to an article titled top 10 reasons not to eat pigs on peta.org “the industry keeps pigs on a steady diet of the antibiotics that we depend on to treat human illnesses. This overuse of antibiotics has led to the development of "super bacteria," or antibiotic-resistant bacterial …show more content…
According to an article on farms.com titled Pig Industry in the USA (Jul 16, 2010) The growth-promoting drug, Carbadox a known carcinogen, is used by the pig industry to promote animal growth and prevent dysentery. It has already been banned in the European Union and Canada seeks to do the same. It has been found to cause cancer through residues in meat. The United States permits use this on pigs. 3. Anthelmintics B. Pigs have no sweat glands. According to a publication titled managing heat stress in outdoor pigs by John J. McGlone, PhD on the Texas tech university website, pigs have to roll around in mud to keep their self cool as a result of no sweat glands. As a result, pigs retain their bodily fluids and salt making their meat very high in sodium in addition to the pigs already high cholesterol. The high cholesterol is one of the highest causes of gall stones C. Adverse effects of pork kyrieology.com: 1.When pork is regularly eaten the cartilage, due to replacement of firm human tendons and ligaments by the “mucous connective tissue of pigs, it becomes soft and atrophies under the pressure of body weight” this buildup of mucus in tendons and cartilage, resulting in swellingarthritis and arthrosis and rheumatism.
(Additional effects of pig consumption extend to worms and