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Meat Consumption

Main Argument:

• Meat consumption has been a big issue over the past years, and its not only in the United States; it is around the world. Meat consumption has been increasingly rising over the past years and has not dropped since. Researchers also say by 2020, meat consumption will increase due to population growth and an increase per capita global consumption of meat. Meat is going to continue to increase because meat is very popular and good for protein, but also has it's health sideaffects to the human body. This has to do a lot with the treatment of the meat and animals. Some factories don't process the meat well that can cause health issues with people. With animals, they're a lot of factories that show no respect for the animals. The animals are being slaughtered in many different and its causing a controversy. The treatment for meat and animals should change or be fixed in a way where meat consumption does not rise drastically.

Link and Analysis:

• http://bcove.me/nn6i0192
• This video shows and explains what the factory farms do to animals and how they treat them everyday. These farmers show no respect and treat these animals without respect. This video shows the factory farmers abusing and crossing the lines with these innocent animals. The narrator, Alex Baldwin exposes these horrible factory farms causes a animal slaughter. These animals have the full rights and need to be treated differently. 

• http://youtu.be/tpziz8cJMaI
• There are ways to prevent an increase in meat consumption and its also pretty helpful for everyone too. Starting a trend like "Meatless Mondays" on a weekly bases is very helpful and is supported by very big important people like, Oprah, Simon Cowell, Sir Paul McCartney, Russell Simmons, and more. This will help a lot of animals and economy as well. 

Visual Argument and Analysis:

• A big concern has been the dramatic increase in meat consumption and its been increasing all over the world. This bar graph shows the top ten countries who produce more meat by kilograms per capita. You can now imagine how many animals are being slaughter around the world and being treated disrespectfully. We, the United States consume 124.1 kilograms per capita and we are not the top country, but still a lot. We need to find solutions to lower this meat increase because its going to be hard with an increase of population around the world too.

• This bar graph image shows the increase of farm factories since the 80's and the amount of animals inside these factories. Its sad seeing these factories to spread out because it just means more slaughters for animals. Another thing about these factories is that sometimes their meat is not processed correctly, like bruised up meat or the meat isn't clean correctly. This can be unhealthy and cause sickness to meat eaters. According to the EPA(Environmental Protection Agency) they said the water from the river is going bad and the factory farms have to do a lot with it. There are so many factories that cause this water to be in poor condition. 

Significance Quotes and Analysis:

"An attempt by six states to overturn a California law that requires more humane treatment of egg-laying hens and higher food safety standards will face legal opposition from The Human Society of United States"(West 1).

• This shows that The Human Society of United States is taking action and actually care about these animals in the factory farms. Its interesting that six states attempted to overturn a California law that required treatment of egg-laying hens because it shows the actions theses states are taking as well. 

"Tyson, one of the nation's biggest companies, slaughters 135,000 head of cattle a week, along with 391,000 hogs and an astonishing 41 million chickens"(Kristof 1). 

• Nicholas Kristof from the New York Times explains this statistic and it is shocking that these factories are killng these animals for these big companies. "Tyson" is sold everywhere and being eaten by many people of different age groups and seems like it is not stopping. Treating these animals like nothing and creating these unhealthy fast foods is making things worse. We need to slow down this consumption before it gets out of hand.

"An animal raised for food is being used by others rather than being respected for itself. In philosopher's terms it is being treated as a means to human ends and not as an end in itself"(Shafer-Landau).

• Russ Shafer-Landau from BBC, explains that animals do have rights and we humans are taking that away from them. The treatment of the animals causes so much problems with society, the meat we eat, and in genearl with everything. We need to respect these animals and researchers have found ways where we can decrease or stop this meat consumption. 

Conclusion:

• The increase of Meat consumption and treatment of animals should improve in ways where we don't hurt animals and humans are still satisfied about the meat. Having trends like "meatless mondays" helps a lot and it gets something started to decrease this consumption. Farm factories should be getting checked daily on how animals are getting treated and just find new systems to decrease the production of meat. Decreasing meat conceptions also decreases the animal slaughters. Meat Consumption is causing a big impact and still increasing which means other systems need to be invented. Hopefully in the future they have system that works out for everybody and help the world.

Work Cited:

• "Animals Used for food." PETA. N.p., n.d. Web. 16 Apr. 2014.

• "Court Asked to Uphold California Ban on Cruelly Produced Eggs: The Humane Society of the    United States." RSS. N.p., n.d. Web. 16 Apr. 2014. Web. 15 Apr. 2014.

•   Facts For Working People." : Monsanto and Cargill, Are Not Farmers. N.p., n.d. Web. 16 Apr. 2014.

•  Kristof, Nicholas. "The Unhealthy Meat Market." The New York Times. The New York Times, 12 Mar. 2014. Web. 16 Apr. 2014.

•  "One Account. All of Google." Blogger. N.p., n.d. Web. 16 Apr. 2014.