My media article, "The Only Way to Have a Cow", was published in the Orion magazine. It discusses the need for Americans to divulge away from feedlot beef. I found it interesting, and even more so when we discussed feedlots in class. I felt it fit perfect!
In addition to the connection with class, it also connected with my Independent Research topic outside of the classroom walls, Global Climate Change.
According to the article, vegetarians and vegans don't just see meat is disgusting (Read Animal Farm to agree.), but they also see how meat in America is personally affecting the climate. "The numbers range from 18% of the world's greenhouse gas emissions to--in one recent study that was quickly discredited--51%."
Another shocking fact in the article is that going vegan is 5o PERCENT more effective in reducing greenhouse emissions than switching to a hybrid car!!!! Even more surprising...The UN Food and Agriculture Organization finds that a half pound of ground beef has the same effect on climate change as driving an SUV 10 miles!!!
We now use an enormous percentage of our arable land to grow corn that we feed to cows who stand in feedlots and eructate until they are slaughtered in a variety of gross ways and lodge in our ever-larger abdomens. And the fact that the product of this exercise “tastes good” sounds pretty lame as an excuse.
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