Synthesis Paper: What Should We Eat. Escape from the Western Diet by Michael Pollan

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What Should We Eat
Choosing what we should eat is one of the difficult choices one is supposed to make. With the millions of food stuff available from different cultures, people are spoiled of choices when it comes to eating healthy diets. Furthermore, the health concerns of different food also make the choice of food to be a difficult task. Various foods have been attributed to different types of lifestyle diseases such as cancer, hypertension, and diabetes. Such challenges make it difficult for a person to choose the right food for their daily meals. However, people should consider the environmental and health impacts of our eating habits (Smil, 132). People should have moral and ethical values when processing food. This article will discuss how these targets can be achieved.
Against Meat by Jonathan Safran Foer
In this article against meat, the author presents two arguments against eating meat. The first argument against eating meat is the critique against industrial agriculture. In this case, the author discusses argument against industrial agriculture and points out atrocities that have occurred due to this phenomenon. The author also points out the moral urgency against eating meat based on this agreement. He argues that human beings eating habits should reflect their ethics and that if they disapprove their argument they should never buy any other food made from the filthy factories of meat. Foer argues that eating meat is a meditation on animal husbandry and carnivory.
Although this argument can be decried as being arrogant or ignorant, it is biased based on the life and experiences of the author. The author argues that he had never touched a farm animal. Since childhood, he never wanted to hurt animals. Therefore, one can argue that the author has no tangible basis for making an argument against meat and handling of animals. Another key argument that Foer expresses against eating meat is the oppression and violence against animals. For instance, the branding that occurs in animals is one of the things that Foer points. He also points out castration and handling of animals during slaughtering process as some of the habits that make the eating meat a cruel activity. Based on this argument, it will be unrealistic for the author to tell people not to eat meat based on some of the natural processes that must occur before animals are transformed into meat.
Based on an academic argument, Foer dismisses other acts such as cattle branding as being unnecessarily brutal. He argues that no single expertise in butchery expertise and animal welfare can authenticate eating of meat. He points out an impassioned ecological and moral argument against meat. Besides, he adds a healthy dimension to his argument. Foer adds that eatin...