Josh Wigler
Staff Writer '19
Staff Writer '19
This is the current year. In this dawning age of politically correct ethics, and of social awareness, the ideals of morality and ethics have been severely altered and reformed. The acceptance of morality relating to actions is under scrutiny due to the culture that we live in. The adequacy of the tasks we accomplish, even stripped to what each one of us say, is up for debate. Society even endeavors to accommodate to aspects of life such as food consumption. Our eating patterns and fixation on what we eat is continuously adjusted as well. Health conscious, diet, fat-free, sugar-free, gluten-free, diary, and an array of other subsidiaries of types of food has been affixed to even the core of menus. People have become more aware of what they eat, how they eat it, what you can eat, and finally, the most difficult question to ponder, what can ethically be eaten.
A responsible eater understands what is alright and reasonable to consume. A fortuitous diet is enlisted in a healthy diet, and it is almost unanimously understood what is healthy or not. But what is up for consideration is if it is acceptable to eat. Whether it be for health reasons or a choice of lifestyle, a grandeur of the population is restricted in each of their individual diets. A common food restriction in society is the necessity to eat dairy-free food or gluten-free food. Some are lactose intolerant and have gluten allergies, others find that they a healthy diet is inquisitive of a lack in those particular ingredients. These lifestyles have increased in the 21st century and there have been growing numbers of dairy-free and gluten-free food to accommodate for the growing quantity of lactose intolerant people and gluten free individuals.
Similarly, a sharp rise of vegetarians and all other associated groups such as vegans, have made non meat options in availability at local restaurants, stores, and markets. These non meat eaters are rising in number due to culture and revolutionary ideals and morals of the changing decade. No longer is it that case that only people who follow religions that prohibit the consumption of meat and those who are unable to eat meat disdain from eating meat. Today, people make the conscious decision to limit or completely cut off consumption of meat due to ethics. Those who argue to forbid meat products from one's diet believe that eating meat is an unethical and immoral action for an individual to partake in.
These individuals argue that a living being must not consume another living being, such as to relate it to cannibalism. Although the majority of these non meat eaters, consume plants, which by definition are living. In ancient times, it was necessary to hunt big, wild game, as food sources such as plants provided for a minimal quantity of food if eaten solely. Many people today, argue that in the modern era, there is no longer a dependency upon eating meat. To counter that argument, one would agree that there is still a non-ceasing dependency on meat for the necessary vitamins that cannot wholly be consumed in an individual food. Others appeal to the humane side of one’s mind, and argue that the way in which meat is produced and animals are slaughtered is unethical, therefore people should not eat meat to stop the unethical treatment of animals. In truth, the practice is dangerous to a person, and one can simply chose to eat from companies that are known for their humane treatment of animals to obtain meat. To conclude, the extent as to how unethical consuming meat is, can only be determined by the parameters of what ethics are. It is controlled by the sovereignty of each individual to decide for themselves whether or not they would like to maintain a life with or without meat in it.
A responsible eater understands what is alright and reasonable to consume. A fortuitous diet is enlisted in a healthy diet, and it is almost unanimously understood what is healthy or not. But what is up for consideration is if it is acceptable to eat. Whether it be for health reasons or a choice of lifestyle, a grandeur of the population is restricted in each of their individual diets. A common food restriction in society is the necessity to eat dairy-free food or gluten-free food. Some are lactose intolerant and have gluten allergies, others find that they a healthy diet is inquisitive of a lack in those particular ingredients. These lifestyles have increased in the 21st century and there have been growing numbers of dairy-free and gluten-free food to accommodate for the growing quantity of lactose intolerant people and gluten free individuals.
Similarly, a sharp rise of vegetarians and all other associated groups such as vegans, have made non meat options in availability at local restaurants, stores, and markets. These non meat eaters are rising in number due to culture and revolutionary ideals and morals of the changing decade. No longer is it that case that only people who follow religions that prohibit the consumption of meat and those who are unable to eat meat disdain from eating meat. Today, people make the conscious decision to limit or completely cut off consumption of meat due to ethics. Those who argue to forbid meat products from one's diet believe that eating meat is an unethical and immoral action for an individual to partake in.
These individuals argue that a living being must not consume another living being, such as to relate it to cannibalism. Although the majority of these non meat eaters, consume plants, which by definition are living. In ancient times, it was necessary to hunt big, wild game, as food sources such as plants provided for a minimal quantity of food if eaten solely. Many people today, argue that in the modern era, there is no longer a dependency upon eating meat. To counter that argument, one would agree that there is still a non-ceasing dependency on meat for the necessary vitamins that cannot wholly be consumed in an individual food. Others appeal to the humane side of one’s mind, and argue that the way in which meat is produced and animals are slaughtered is unethical, therefore people should not eat meat to stop the unethical treatment of animals. In truth, the practice is dangerous to a person, and one can simply chose to eat from companies that are known for their humane treatment of animals to obtain meat. To conclude, the extent as to how unethical consuming meat is, can only be determined by the parameters of what ethics are. It is controlled by the sovereignty of each individual to decide for themselves whether or not they would like to maintain a life with or without meat in it.