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Assignment for Food Policy

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Assignment for Food Policy

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Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION ...............................................................................................................................3MAIN BODY ......................................................................................................................................3CONCLUSION ...................................................................................................................................5REFERENCEs......................................................................................................................................72
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INTRODUCTION The case for reducing meat consumption has for quite some time been a convincing onewhichever point of view one takes such as, human wellbeing, environmental impact and animalwelfare (Lawrence, 2011). Livestock production and other animal-based items are associated withhigh ecological consequence and its adding to environmental change (Jennie et al. 2015). For thisessay to debate if it is time to give up meat or not, it is necessary to know the damages done to theenvironment and health by consuming meat. This essay is divided into two parts; first, it argues thatit is morally wrong to raise animals to produce meat, dairy products and most other food products.Turning animal into food, and using them for their by-products, causes severe harm to animals thatare morally unjustified (The Intersection, 2011). The second part supports the reasoning beforefinally concluding.MAIN BODY Diets around the world have seen enormous changes, including a movement from staple grains toanimal proteins and vegetable oils (Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations,2014). However, Lawrence (2011) argues that the two most demanding justifications behind cuttingon meat today are the environmental change and the worldwide populace development. Reisch andThøgersen, (2015) stated that the production of animal-based food products requires considerablemore resources than that of plant-based products. Also, they pointed out that the treatment ofanimals, from birth to slaughter, is an important characteristic of a civilisation and requires ethicaljustification. Peters et al. (2008) pointed out another important key that about 31 m2 of land isneeded to produce 1000kcal of beef while cereals need only 1.1 m2.Flachowsky (2003) maintains that by 2025 there will be less than 2000m2 of agriculturalland per person available to produce the food and renewable resources needed. Therefore, the largenumber of populations will not able to access the food products and died with the huger. Along withthis, due to less availability of agricultural land, the animals who are depending of the plants for thefood will not survive for the long time. Beside this, other animals who are depending on the otheranimals will also not get food. Furthermore, PETA (2016) and Perez (2015) affirms that land isbeing used to raise animals instead of crops, water and soil are lost; trees are cut down to makemore room for factory farm sheds and untreated animal waste pollutes rivers and streams. In fact,PETA (2016) sustains that it has such a devastating effect on all aspects of the environment that theUnion of Concerned Scientists lists meat eating as the second – biggest environmental hazard facingthe Earth.Kresser (2013) and Niman, (2014) argues that most of the statistics are not accurate such as3
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