CCHU9005 Food and values 3. Eating Meat Joe Lau philosophy . hku . 2013 http://food.joelau.info First lecture? Write this down: http://food.joelau.info • Everything you need to know will be there • Check regularly for announcements • Assignment #1 & tutorials Question for today and next week? • Is it wrong to eat meat? A plea for open-mindedness • Strength of conviction might reflect the depth of family and cultural influence rather than plausibility Comment #1 • Absolutism
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barren tree. Humans‚ too‚ if eating right‚ we will be healthy‚ happy and wise; vice versa‚ we could be sick‚ cruel and ignorant. What is eating right‚ naturally? For example‚ in nature‚ an elephant is born eating grass‚ a tiger is born feeding on meat. Let us try to examine what people are born to eat! First of all‚ the teeth. Our teeth do not look like the teeth of carnivores; it looks like the teeth of species that eat vegetable‚ grass‚ flowers‚ fruits and tubers. Carnivores sweat through
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Vegetarian’s not eating meat! Ever wondered why vegetarians do not eat meat? There are a lot of reasons and especially how people think of it. Vegetarians are people who maintain a strict diet of grains‚ dairy products‚ fish‚ vegetables‚ fruits and eggs. People can choose to eat some particular foods like vegetables‚ fruits and grains or everything without meat. They can make their own combinations of foods in their diet. According to ‘Kids Health’ foundation‚ a vegetarian diet is healthy as long
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Meat production is an issue that impacts on the environment. Some of effects that have been associated with meat are pollution‚ fossil fuels‚ and water and land consumption. In March/April of 2010 Bill McKibben published an article called “The Only Way to have a Cow” in Orion magazine. In the article‚ McKibben discusses the benefits of eating less meat which can result in a reduction in carbon emissions as cattle breeding has a big greenhouse effect. He believes that people should rarely eat meat
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people in America that could meet our metabolic energy needs in an environmentally sustainable way. Americans should eat minimal amounts of meat to meet their energy
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Gustavus Swift was born June 24‚ 1839 in Sagamore‚ Massachusetts. Swift was part of a large family‚ being one of twelve children. He was introduced to the meat-packing industry at a very early age; his father and several brothers were modestly successful butchers. At the age of sixteen‚ Swift wanted work as a butcher independently‚ so he decided he would move into the city to start work. Swift’s father did not want him to leave home‚ so he offered him twenty-five dollars to stay and start his
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boost your health. Klaper believes that completely eliminating the consumption of animal by-products is the key to a healthy diet. Although I agree that Americans eat too much meat‚ cutting meat completely out is not beneficial either. It can be concluded from the documentary that cutting down on the consumption of animal meat and by-products can improve health in America. Consuming an excess of animal flesh can cause numerous health problems including high blood pressure‚ Le tenia (abnormal blood)
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employed at home. Here are some examples. One of the most important aspects of practicing food safety involves preventing foods from becoming contaminated. Making sure foods are stored properly goes a long way in avoiding any type of food contamination. Meat and vegetables should be placed in airtight containers and placed in a freezer. Items such as flour‚ sugar‚ cornmeal‚ and spices should also be stored in containers that provide an effective barrier to airborne bacteria‚ and can be stored in pantries
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conscious about what they eat and there are many types of diets that promote a healthy lifestyle. For example‚ pescatarians are more likely to reduce eating meat; besides fish‚ and people who eat a raw food diet only consume plant-based foods. There are many motives that would draw people into consuming a vegetarian diet. The exclusion of meat from diets due to moral‚ health or religious issues may be the leading cause to living a longer and healthier life according to ¬¬¬-researchers‚ who claim vegetarians
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for beef. It wasn’t until I started to study the environmental impact of producing these meat types; I began to see the bigger picture that happened to be just as big as my appetite. When I started to look into the process that went into making these meat types‚ I began to discover how these processes contribute to clogging the environment‚ not just my arteries. The production of these meat types contributes greatly to global warming
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