We Require Balance Requires Meat By David Newkirk

Ingrid Newkirk in the essay, “I’m About to Eat Meat for the First Time in 40 Years (2012),” argues that eating meat is unethical because it causes unnecessary suffering to livestock and health problems to meat eaters, instead Newkirk advocates the consumption of vitro meat. Newkirk supports her argument by mentioning an anecdote of her childhood experience of hunting, preparing, and eating meat with her father who enjoyed to eat large proportion of meat; the purpose of mentioning this story is to connect to the toll of heavy meat consumption had on her father’s health and the brutal methods they harvested meat. Ingrid Newkirk’s purpose is to deter her audience on the thought of consuming meat by highlighting the health effects it might have,

Balance Requires Meat (2012)”, claims eating meat is ethical as long as there is an ecosystem where both the livestock and the land help each other flourish, additionally, Roussel states the issue is not using an animal fully because it is wasteful, thus unethical. By establishing her experience as a farmer, Roussel supports her claim that the production of meat is ethical by explaining the natural order in which livestock is needed to fertilize the land and the land is needed to feed livestock, she explains this tedious process and how much effort is placed to grow livestock and produce. By doing so, Roussel explains the main issue that is linked to the lengthy process, which is consumers who discard food and do not appreciate an animal’s sacrifice. The author’s purpose is to make her audience aware of the effort and sacrifices made to create a meal in order to discard the stigma of raising livestock and eating meat, she does so in an earnest tone for her audience who may not know a lot about farming and are unaware of the complexity of creating a codependent

Bost supports his claim by comparing the process of raising meat to the process of harvesting of crops; he argues both systems have their flaws, in the sense, they produce pollution into the Earth’s atmosphere and kill animals whether it was their intent or not. The author’s purpose is to inform both non meat eaters and meat eaters the ethics of eating any food in general in order to create an understanding of where their food comes from and how their food choices affect the surrounding organisms as well as the environment. The author writes in an objective tone for his audience who may be biased on the issue of the ethics of eating meat or crops, he equally provides the pros and cons of both opposing views and compares the overall effects they have on organisms, in the end Bost advices both sides to reflect on the ethics of eating