Tile: Becoming a vegan
Background information and literature on being a vegan
Justification of the problem
Why the issue of becoming a vegan is relevant in the contemporary socisty.
An interview with a student who is a vegan and noting down of the factual firsthand experience of a vegan
Environmental Reasons for being vegan
Outline reasons from the student and other sources on how eating meat diets hurt the environment
Becoming a vegan
The notion of becoming a vegan and leaving out all the animal meat in our diet is by and large becoming an essential and almost an inevitable trend in the near future if the current trends are anything to go by. There are various people, famous and infamous, who have condemned the act of killing animals for their meat. One such figure is Leo Tolstoy who is widely quoted to have emphasized that "A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral." (The Vegan Wolf, 2004).
Justification of the problem
However, there are more than just the moral angle to it and a reason that closer to our livelihoods and whether one cares for the morals or not, they must and will ultimately get into...
The habitat has been one of the biggest loser in the
race for the meat production.
Case study
Having had an interview with Luis Diaz, a business major in my class who works with habitat for humanity, there are various insightful aspects that came out directly pointing at how and why the vegan lifestyle works widely to conserve the environment. These below were the outstanding issues that were noted and that go a large extent to indicate the significance of the
environmental conservation through adopting the vegan lifestyle.
Environmental Reasons for being vegan
It was clear that there is widespread destruction of tropical rainforests and other types of vegetation in order to plant
food for the feeding of animals to be slaughtered or even just to create room for the grazing animals to be slaughtered. This clearing of trees destroys the
water catchment regions that would regulate the
global warming, complete the water cycle, absorb carbon dioxide from the environment and provide man with
medicine and food among other provisions.
Vegetarian diet will also go a long way in reduction of the overall
environmental pollution. It is worth noting that millions of acres are continually sprayed with pesticides in the process of producing food for the…
