Animal, Vegetable, Miserable By Professer Gary Steiner

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The population of the earth is now 7 billion and rising. Demand for meat products is rising day by day and companies need to meet the consumer demand and to do so they forget morals about factory farming for animals. However some people over the world people are turning into vegetarians, some do it to improve their health and some do it for religion. After reading the article “Animal, Vegetable, Miserable” by Professer Gary Steiner, I came to agree with many of his well stated arguments against meat eating like: cruelty to animals, animals being given hormones and antibiotics or animals not living a good quality life. In his essay he constantly repeats about thanksgiving and the turkey which didn’t live its life to the fullest.
In Mr. Steiner’s article he says that people all around the world always have excuses to why they eat meat and somehow make them believe their lie by telling them the reasons constantly. So they ignore the torture and the pain the animals endure just for the enjoyment of a meal. They forget everything about the poor lives the animals had to go through while they have their hamburger in McDonalds. They tell themselves two excuses which is that animals don’t feel pain and that god made animals for our consumption according to Mr. Steiner. About the animals don’t feel pain, I believe that the evidence he provides is suffice and that I agree fully with. If the animal is constantly kept caged, how will it think it has a future when its present is pathetic? For the religion excuse, I believe that it can be true in a Christian view but in other religion that’s not the case. Religion plays a great role in the population of vegetarians. Places such as India have the biggest amount of vegetarianism and t...

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...funny. As humans aren’t people who eat their own kind and this is why I find the joke very funny. Also she’s making joke about the people who eat free range meat by saying “We want him to have the best possible life before we slaughter him”. The humour is that when this is said it sounds quite weird and odd as when we think free range meat then we imagine a positive life for the animal and the irony is in the joke.
In conclusion, Mr. Steiner has had many strong arguments for vegans and how to be a true vegan though I believe he has some flaws in his argument but overall I really enjoy his arguments and has changed my view on veganism. I have expanded on his ideas on is about the excuses people make for eating meat justifiable, things made from animals should be stopped, regulations by government on animal cruelty laws and the cartoon Mr. Steiner had on his article.

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