Hi everyone,
Hope you are all doing well and looking forward to the half term break!!! I am sure you will all have a more relaxing time than me =-)
This week's online discussion topic is of particular interest to me, being a vegetarian, so I look forward to your comments! Megan will verify the 2 presenters in class, and don't forget to upload your comments to the blog by Sunday so we can hear the presentation in class Monday.
Should we stop eating other animals? What are the moral, environmental, and health issues involved?
Have a great break everyone and see you Monday!
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Hello everyone, I am very surprised, I am the first spokesman.
ReplyDeleteI think the phenomenon of eating the animals is incorrect behavior. Nowadays, as a result of the human damage the ecosystem without scruple. Thus, leading to huge negative impacts as the ecosystem, such as the extinction of animal and the worsening of pollution and so on. For example, when human hunt a major of animals as their food and cloths and fur without scruple, which effect natural china of ecology directly. Thereby, human should forbid to eat the animal, and giving the circumstance of safety.
Also, human both have the life as well the animal. In order to satisfy needs of human, and lots of animals are sent the zoo to watch for human. On the other hand, refusing meat represents a culture of back to nature and health and protecting the ecological environment in the recently. The culture of vegetarianism will be a prevalent tendency in the future.
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I agree with Lei Li in few views that hunt animals as their food and cloths will influence ecology directly. Nowadays more and more meat was provided for people, many people think that animals are being killed just for food, it’s cruel for animals. I think people should not master existent right of animals. Animals also have the right to live. Most of wild animals are rapidly disappearing from the world, it couldn't be divided with that animals were hunted and killed cruelly. It is unfair to animals whose existent right was only for people's food.
ReplyDeleteIf people do not eat meat, their health will not be influenced. A good example is the Chinese Buddhism monks, it’s a taboo of kill any animals and eat them. They have magnificent and healthy physique. Moreover the Chinese Kung Fu was found in the Chinese Buddhism, and it’s famous in the world.
My conclusion is people should thinking to stop eating meat before it's too late. May be it’s a big challenge for individuals because eating habits. People always talking about “green” everywhere, it’s not just protecting the environment and nature resources also being a vegetarian.
I planning to be a vegetarian today, will you join in me in vegetarianism?
Hi, evraone I hope you enjoy your holiday.
ReplyDeleteI disagree with Lie LI, if all human become vegetarian the number of animals will be huge, they will consume more food, which is mostly vegetables. In additions to that, human will use more vegetables. That leads to famines, because we are effecting the life cycle.
I partly agree with Le Lei and Apple’s opinion. Eating other animals could impact heavily on ecosystem. There are large number of species which was exterminated or endangered species by human’s appetite and acquisitiveness such as dodo.
ReplyDeleteHowever I believe we do not have to stop eating animals. Human began to use hands to use tools and began to communicate with others for hunting. I think human evolved to eat more foods, besides; it is one of the biggest roots of human culture. Poison of the fish and the fat could be big issue, but if we controlled the amount of meat this problem could be avoid. It seems that eating meat in moderate way is not harmful; eating meat extravagantly is damaging the environment.
I disagree with some points of view of Apple and Lei at all, because all of animals are living by preyed on other animals’ lives. If you felt the herbivores are not one of them, I would say how did u define the plants lived without souls? No lives live without preying on other lives. Perhaps you would say “Human Beings.” Yes, recently, human beings have jumped out the food chain and stay at the top of the pyramidal ecosystem. However, originally, at the beginning, human beings are the same as other animals that fighting with other animals and natural in order to survive and also be preyed by other animals to meet their survived needs; but with the developments of technique are involved, the situation of human beings has changed. This is also what I want to mention about, originally, human beings are also a part of food chain so it is natural to eat veges and meat as well. Therefore, the only thing that we need to consider is that ‘Just take what you need, do not waste.’ The reason is we, human beings, also do not have right to cause the extinction of other animals, even now we are at the top of the pyramidal ecosystem. Thus, for me, to eat meat is without moral and environment consideration, but this does not mean we can waste the resources. Additionally, some people become vegetarian due to the healthy considerations. For this concern, I would say this is another kind of bias, it is not balance. We, Human Beings, are omnivorous animals not herbivores. Thus, we can not only eat veges or meats, this will cause the lack of nutrition assimilation. We have to eat both and find the balance!
ReplyDeleteOverall, I will say there are not enough strong reasons to be vegetarian because you cannot refuse to eat for fear of choking, but the only one concern is that we have to find out the balance!
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ReplyDeleteI can finally participate in the discussion this time.
Discoverer of the Pythagorean Theorem, the father of Western vegetarianism.Pythagoras said As long as people continue to relentlessly destroy the lives of lower animals, he would never understand the true meaning of health or peace. Right because people can not stop killing animals, then they will kill each other. Indeed, sowing the seeds of murder and suffering of the people is impossible to harvest the fruits of joy and love.
In my opinion, Pure vegetarian or would the human body of balanced nutrition.
While the simple vegetarian will reduce the killing of animals. Now, the vegetarian restaurant has been all over the world. Some well-known brands within the five-star hotel chains are vegetarian special services or set up a special vegetarian restaurant. Most of the world's airlines now offer a variety of styles of vegetarian meals, passengers can take off within 24 hours prior to booked vegetarian. Unit weight of meat and vegetables contain pesticide content of more than 10 times, and contains a large number of animal feeding their metabolites and drug intake during the period (such as antibiotics, etc.), which is the reason many people vegetarian. There are also after the death of that animal in the process of rigor mortis body will produce toxic, and these drugs would be harmful corpse. There are a lot of people find the benefits of a vegetarian to change, not only because of health, but also because a vegetarian in the protection of the natural environment is a very important key. However, some nutritionists do not recommend the change to eat vegan. They believe that vegan could cause our body get the vitamins and minerals every day.
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I hope everyone has a amazing holiday at first.Then I want to say that I'm not a vegetarian and I like eating meat but not too much. And I think if we want to be healthier,we need to eat both vegetables and meats just like Tsai's words--on balance. I totally agree with Tsai. If we kill animals in the suitable amounts and dont waste any more, this is also a good way to keep balance. And from Marwah's opinions, if we dont eat any more meats, animals' amount will be increased and it will destroy the balance of the world. So not only for our healthy but also for the balance of the whole world, we need to eat some meats but not to kill any rare animals. Keep balance is very important!
ReplyDeleteHello everyone.
ReplyDeleteThe argument of should we stop eating other animals has involved much debates. For me, I like eating meat. But, actually, I don’t agree people eat animals. Because I think eating animals is very brutal. I have seen my mother kill the fish for cooking, and I was so sad that I didn’t eat the fish that night. But if I didn’t saw how my mother killed the fish, I would eat it.
The animals, which are raised by people, possibly can be eaten. That is because I don’t think we can live without meat now. The population in the world is more than 6.5 billion that we don’t have enough vegetable to feed all the people. Although eating animals is brutal, we don’t have any choice.
I hope some day we can create something to instead of meat that we can stop eating other animals. But we need eating meat at present.
Nowadays, There is an increasing number of being a vegetarian, Many people reflect on this serious issue, which connects with moral, environmental, and health. Some people think that we didn’t have right to deprive the animal’s life. Killing animal is so merciless. Moreover, some animal is already extinct which broke the balance of environment. Furthermore, vegetarian is more health than eating meat. I find an interesting point form science report: when the animal was killed by extreme fear and suffering, the body of animal produced variability, which could caused toxins throughout the body, so the meat completely poisoned. Also, vegetarian can avoid the potential risk of cancer.
ReplyDeleteA lot of people know eating animals is not good. However, they cannot control themselves. I am also a member of one of them. Eating meat is human desire, like sleeping, eating, and money. Proud of it for that some people have begun to be vegetarian, they have strong willpower.
I'm agree with tsai that " We have to eat both and find the balance!".
ReplyDeleteI'm an animal lover, who absolutely eats meat. I think that we should continue to eat animals, it is a natural part of the food chain for us, But we should eat less and always make sure the meat is properly cooked and not treat the animals badly.
As for health, we need protein, which is comes to fueling our body.
As for moral issues, animals should be housed and slaughtered humanely, and should not have to endure barbaric conditions during their lifetime such as raise them comfortably, kill them quickly and humanely and take only what you need,share the rest.
Also, I do think the practice of large scale factory farming is detrimental to the environment.
I understand that someone reject eating meat, But this cannot be used to make the claim that all people should stop eating meat.
I agree with Apple’s opinion. I will also consider being a vegetarian someday. There are several advantages to be a vegetarian. Firstly, it is good for your health. Vegetables are full of vitamin which is necessary for our daily life. Secondly, it is unfair to kill the animals for food. Animals also live on the earth together with us. They are not born to be food for human beings. It’s cruel to kill the animals and eat them. Lastly, if we kill too much animals we will break the balance of the environment which we live in. To sum up, to be a vegetarian is good for your health and the earth.
ReplyDeleteHi, great too see you in blog.
ReplyDeleteI advocate being a vegetarian but it is a controversial issue that have exactly argued recently.In my view, there are many positive effects about being a vegetarian.
In the first place, eating the vegetable is healthy for people it could reduce some kinds of diseases due to fat. Despite the fact that dozen of people doubt that does the vegetable provide essential protein, many kinds of vegtable includes protein such as peanuts soybeans ..etc.
Furthermore, raising the livestock for food causes acceleration of global warming. the recent reasearch said that co2 emited by livestock is much higher than transportation emission and it also leads to deforestation, water shrotage and pollution. Therefore, over number of livestock seems to be destroyer to threaten our evironment.
On the contrary, because of weather condition and culture affect, some people who live in the cold weather have to eat meat in order to survive. They are unable to find out vegetable except eating animals. In addition, eating meat is traditional eating habits for some nations and it is difficult for them to easily change their food culture.
Overall, I believe that balance of eating habits is the most appropriate choice for human beings. However, we should respect life style of each other whether she or he is a vegetarian or peelator.
In my opinion, We should not stop eating other animals, some people think eating animals is cruel and fierce, and some animal is very pathetic. But I think human is being the top food chain it’s natural selection, Darwinian evolution says “survival of the fittest in natural selection”. The strong one eating small and weak one, this is nature., such like tiger eating deer and cat eating rat, so we shouldn’t blame ourselves for eating animals. Moreover many people are starving at this day and age. We cannot set a moral standard for those people. Eating animal have nothing to do with moral, also I think eating animals do not have effect with environmental, even though people stop eating animals but animals still will become extinct. Just like dinosaurs there are not people eating them, but dinosaurs still have disappeared. In addition I think eating meat have many benefit for our self, because meat contain a lot of protein, it’s can make people strong and heath.
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ReplyDeleteI am sure Jennifer has had a more relaxing time than me^^
I am sure everybody has had a more relaxing time than me.
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The topic is very disputed .Nature is fair-minded.Survival of the fittest,why human can become the master in organisms,why animals become the food to human?In ancient times
ReplyDeletehuman also was the food to animal,after thousands of years of struggle,human have changed the situation.Human use their wisdom to make their life safe,to develop their society.That is the difference between human and animal.That is why animal become the food to huamn.If the animal can use their intellenge ,the situation would not like now. Today,huam is the master in the organism,to live longer,to live responsibly,human can kill animal for food ,expecial rare animal.Each species
have their right to live in the world.
We want to konw what is difference between animals and poultry.If human want to eat food from animal,we can eat poultry.