In Defense Of Eating Meat Essay

In America today, most individuals focus more on body images, eating poorly or properly, and focus more on judging one’s image. Half of the society believes most Americans health issues must do with the lack of eating habits or constantly consuming dairy products. Currently in the United States, most vegetarians assume that meat and dairy are dangerous to one’s health. In contrast, meat is essential to the human diet and society does not realize that consuming meat can be a healthy choice to one’s wellbeing. Vegetarians held strong beliefs regarding the depravity of causing unacceptable torture to animals, also argued slaughtering animals is cruel and non-vegetarians have no standards. In different articles, Timothy Hsiao, the author of “In Defense of Eating Meat”, Eric C. Anderson and Lisa Feldman Barrett, the authors of, “Affective Beliefs Influence the Experience of Eating Meat”, Johnathan Safran Foer, the author of, “Against Meat”, and Mary Maxfield, the author of “Food as Thought: Resisting the Moralization of Eating”, discusses the different perspectives towards one’s health and what he or she are consuming. If we accept that humans
Maxfield’s believes that naturally or inherently, food can come naturally that are considered “healthy” or “unhealthy” in our American culture. Society was learned what to eat and not what to eat. Pollan, the author of, “Escape from the Western Diet,” is one of the authors that Maxfield pointed out the support her argument and believes he is overreacting when it comes to health problems. Maxfield considered that Pollan pointed out that individuals should stop obsessing over the inconsistency and start obsessing over a “French fry”. (Maxfield 442). In other words, Maxfield believes that Pollan is suggesting the opposite of healthy and encouraging others to keep going in the opposite