I personally think that it is a good thing to know where your food is actually coming from. However, in our society today, we all live off of our own personal schedules and our lives are often fast paced. Therefore, we do not have the time to sit and read every ingredient on that can before we buy it. I personally want to go to the grocery store, buy my food, and get out of there as fast as I can. I guess what I am trying to say is that when it comes down to it, I am lazy and I have better things to do. I do know though that if I had to kill the animal, I would not eat it. When we see videos about how the animals are butchered, it is torturous to watch, it makes you think. When I am presented with chicken on my plate however, I tend not to even think about those videos that I had previously watched. Eating chicken and beef has been a lifestyle to me ever since I was a child and I don’t think that I would be able to give up meat all together. It may sound selfish, but that is just the way I have lived my life for the past 20 years.
I don’t think that hunting is moral for those people above the poverty line. I know of some people who simply hunt for a hobby. They get a thrill out of it. I would never be able to go hunting and shoot an animal just for the fun of it. I do believe that it is a necessity for those people living under the poverty line. In those cases, I feel that it is okay. The first thing that came to my mind when thinking about hunting were Native Americans. Hunting is a way of life for them.
We as American’s are served HUGE portions. It is simply not necessary. I know that when I go out to eat at restaurants, the food is so good I eat my whole meal. If the portions were smaller, I would be satisfied instead of feeling sick. I don’t feel that it is necessary to harvest that much food just for one meal. I feel that it is wasteful.
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3 comments:
I completly agree with your post. Like you I often do not think about what is in the food I eat. When we first watched those videos earlier in class I was discusted and did not eat meat for two days. I looked at the ingrideants in what I ate but slowly found myself changing my ways due to convinence. When I am at school and work for long hours there are very limited things that I can eat that are still appealing to me. At this point in my life I agree with you that I am not ready to take the time to completly change my lifestyle. I do think it is important for people to try to make a difference in what they eat and know where it comes from.
I agree that while it would be effective and smart for a consumer to know where his/her food is coming from, a lot of us are lazy in doing the research. We do live in such a fast paced society that everything is about convenience. I like to go through the grocery store and pick out what I think will taste good and not examine every little thing about it. As for hunting, I do wish that hunters would think about whether or not they really need to be killing animals for leisurely purposes. However it is a way of life for some people so hunting is always a tricky subject, in my opinion.
preparing and reading every detail involved in daily food would take way to long. i too just want to eat and go on my way. no time for concerns.
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