Consider The Meat Guzzler Analysis

Have you ever thought about the meat we eat? What is it? Where did it come from? How was is prepared? I personally never thought of these questions; my only concern was if the meat is halal or not. However after reading the articles: Consider the Lobster, The LIves of animals, The meat Guzzler, and Flesh of your Flesh I changed my whole mind. I admit have loved meat since I was a little girl, but unfortunately it took me almost 20 years to realize that eating meat is more than it just being a meal, in fact it is a relationship of honesty and humanity too.

When I look back, it’s hard to understand why it took me mylife time to realized that i was a baby serial killer. I was capable to indicate what's right and wrong about eating animals but

For the past years the global demand for meat has multiplied and with that the world meat consumption is expected to double and double which is a crisis. Meat factories have consumed huge amounts of energy, contaminated water and generated lots of greenhouse gases. Therefore if you eat less meat there is less demand for it and fewer animals are killed which means less greenhouse gases pumped into the atmosphere. In the article Mark Bittman who is an American food journalist talks about how animals have a big effect on the environment and public health by giving an example on how cattles are fed and raised, “cattle are meant to digest grass, not grain, cattle raised industrially thrive only in the sense that they gain weight quickly. This diet made it possible to remove cattle from their natural environment and encourage the efficiency of mass confinement and slaughter. But it causes enough health problems that administration of antibiotics is routine, so much so that it can result in antibiotic-resistant bacteria that threaten the usefulness of medicines that treat people.” Here Bittman gives only one example out of millions examples on how animals are treated in an unethical way which affects our environment and our health too. In the article Flesh of your Flesh the author Elizabeth Kolbert considers many issues on how we humans live in a two face guide on how we look at animals versus meat. America consumes roughly thirty-eight billion pounds of poultry, twenty-seven billion pounds of beef, and nine billion birds and numerous more of the animals that are slaughtered annually to provide meats for American people for food (Kolbert). We americans are meat eaters. We consume a lot of meat and at the end of the day we face huge health problems such as obesity. Meat is not the only source to rely on for protein. Whoever says that eating meat means survival that is not true because of the large amount of resources