After the visit to "Wayne Bradley’s" farm‚ Peter Singer and Jim Mason share some very important information on the experience with farming. Singer and Mason together examine negative impacts that individual Americans food choices have upon farmers‚ they believe should be the basis of dietary basics. The negative effects of much agriculture on animals‚ human health‚ and our environment as they have little faith that the American government will actually take the initiative to force the food industry
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Peter Singer and Jim Mason have written a book entitled The Ethics of What We Eat. Pages 241-248 of this book discuss the idea of whether factory farming is ethical or not. For this short reflection paper I will discuss the ideas that they brought up about the ethics of factory farming‚ while at the same time bringing in my views of factoring farming and the ethics behind animal treatment. The first issue that they bring up is that‚ “Factory farms are designed on the principle that ‘animals are
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humans to consume meat. With the decline of nutritional value in meat and rise of healthier vegetarian alternatives‚ consumption of meat is now purely for gustatory pleasure. By eating meat‚ the consumer is contributing to the slaughter of animal for pleasure opposed to survival. Eating meat with the intent of survival is morally acceptable‚ while contributing to the torture or killing of animals for personal pleasure is morally impermissible. Therefore‚ it is immoral to eat meat if healthier vegetarian
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English 101/Essay 3 19 March‚ 2013 Peter Singer’s Essay It is an irrefutable fact that we should help each other. However sometimes help to others poses some danger to either us or others. In Peter Singer’s essay "Famine Affluence‚ and Morality" Peter Singer argues that we ought‚ morally‚ to prevent starvation due to famine. Singer begins by saying that assistance has been inadequate as richer countries prioritize development above preventing starvation. Singer then states that "suffering and death
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Peter Singer‚ an Australian philosopher and professor at Princeton University asks his students the simple question of whether they would save a drowning child from a pond‚ while wearing they’re bran new pair of expensive shoes. The response was aggressive and passive “How could anyone consider a pair of shoes‚ or missing an hour or two at work‚ a good reason for not saving a child’s life?” ¹ Singer continued to argue that “ according to UNICEF‚ nearly 10 million children under five years old die
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Eating Meat and The Treatment of Animals Eating animals is part of the daily life of billions of people all over the world. Every day‚ thousands of animals are killed for the production of food for people. We have been brought up eating meat and never questioned it. It is culturally accepted even though modern livestock and poultry production (factory farming) is cruel and gives animals no other purpose for existence except for human consumption. There are particular religions which prohibit eating
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humans to consume meat. The issue rises from the mistreatment of farm animals in horrible conditions to the horrific slaughter. Several people such as Singer are arguing that in order to solve this issue we must stop the consumption of meat and animal products. However many other people believe that animal consumption is natural and it is what makes us human. In the following‚ I will challenge Singer’s view of which we should stop animal consumption by arguing that to stop eating meat is morally unacceptable
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some people say eating meat wrong . others say it’s natural . Human beings have been consuming meat as part of their diet for most of their existence and will likely continue this behavior until the last living animal is gone from the earth. However‚ public awareness of meat-associated health hazards‚ such as heart attacks‚ colon cancer‚ and fatal E. coli bacterial infections‚ has caused great concern and shifts in many people’s eating habits. The number of vegetarians has been growing worldwide
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research‚ that meat industries are over-producing animal products‚ and in addition‚ are a major cause of environmental problems such as global warming and world hunger. Another good motive is the unimaginable cruelty these animals suffer‚ that represents torture one could never imagine for their own pets or peers. As importantly‚ being a vegetarian has numerous health benefits. Animal products contain bacteria and contaminants that have been shown to cause fatal illnesses. Cutting meat and animal by-products
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something bad from happening at a comparatively small cost to yourself‚ you are obligated to do so.” Peter Singer is a philosopher who believes that we have an obligation to help those in need. I agree with his statement from the book Exploring Ethics that‚ “It is not beyond capacity of the richer nations to give enough assistance to reduce any further suffering to very small proportions.”(Singer pg.244 ) He believes that rich nations can help either as individuals or as a group‚ to prevent those
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