With countless diets hitting the market each day‚ it can become impossible to know the best route in order to properly fulfill our nutritional needs without wreaking havoc to the world around us. The philosophical book The Ethics of What We Eat by Singer and Mason explores the lasting impact our dietary preferences pose on humans‚ animals‚ and the environment‚ as they offer suggestions on how to improve our ecological footprint through our choices. A lasting theme of the book puts a light on the
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At some point in your life‚ someone probably said to you: “You are what you eat.” Well‚ that’s true. If we eat healthy‚ we will more likely be healthy. Our bodies need healthy‚ clean foods to grow strong‚ learn‚and be active. Our kids especially need these things because their bodies are changing‚ growing and learning so much every day. Eating healthy from the time of infancy will follow our children through adolescence into adulthood. Proper nutrition will not only help our kids avoid illness
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We as Americans love food and slowly but surely we have ended up with an abundant amount of food options as well as huge waistlines. But we have to argue‚ who is to blame for this? Should we be held responsible for our bodies and what we decide to consume or is the food industry responsible for luring us in? This‚ as well as many biological and environmental factors can contribute to the rise of weight problems and obesity. R.A Ames‚ author of "Fast Food Isn’t to Blame"‚ argues that weight difficulties
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Some people say: we are what we eat. It’s a great saying. I absolutely agree with this.You may have a fit body or quite overweight. Your appearance showed us what you ate. Eating too much or too little are both not good. We should keep a balanced diet. That’s a key to be in good health and get success. For example‚ many people have meals too late because they have to work overtime‚ which leads to stomachache. Or a hungry man is eating too much to stop his hunger so what’s next. The answer is that
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Natural Ethics is a theory that is not easily defined because it does not have any delegated principles. Although‚ this theory does not have any set principles the main concept is to essentially tell us how to live. The author of The Ethics of What We Eat‚ Pete Singer‚ takes a utilitarian approach to three major ethical issues: using animals for food‚ the environmental impact of our food‚ and the impact on global poverty. We were tasked with creating principles for the Natural Ethics theory which
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The article discusses the long-term negative impact of watching television on the diet of American adults and provides advice on encouraging teenagers to eat healthy. This article is relevant to my project on proposing ways to combat obesity in Singapore as it highlights an important but possibly neglected causal factor for unhealthy eating habits – TV-watching. As young Singaporeans are exposed to television shows and media sources just as American teenagers are‚ findings on their negative influence
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everyday lives‚ we generally decide what we put on the table but we aren’t exactly sure where our food comes from‚ besides the store. Jamey Lionette and William Saletan have analyzed and questioned the origins of where our food comes from and what our food is. In the article “Please don’t feed the people”‚ William Saletan confronts the shifts in the human race in the increase of obesity as well as constructing an idea of how we became “unhealthy”. Jamey Lionette created “We Are What We Eat”‚ to examine
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reason I’m bringing this up to you is because our class is finding out why we eat what we eat. If you read this blog you will already know about what’s going on once you get to high school. How do your friends‚ family‚ and your lifestyle have an effect on why you eat what you eat? Your family might only eat certain foods on holidays or special occasions. For example my family only eats turkey on Thanksgiving‚ and only eats ham for Christmas. Now on to your friends‚ they can also influence food choices
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What am I eating? Food is one of the great blessing by God for all his creation. We need food and water to be alive. From the beginning of the world the demand of the food is increasing day by day. The global food chain was already quite extensive by 1701- to the point where affluent English consumers could be oblivious to the costs of sweetening their tea and peppering their sausage.
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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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