Social Change
Icy metal bars, barely reaching your height, cast long shadows that only remind you of your lifelong confinement to the cramped cell. Your innate instincts and basic needs are frequently disregarded, solely sacrificing your life never for yourself, but for the greed of others. Each attempt to breathe is a struggle when you do not even have sufficient space for your thin fragile legs to properly stand on. If you are supposing that you are a prisoner confined to the most notorious prison in the world, you are close. Surprisingly, you're simply a chicken on a typical farm.
We demand you to adopt a vegan diet for at least one meal a day, to free the animals from exploitation, to free yourself from the perils of diseases, and most importantly, free the earth from carbon emissions resulting from slaughtering.
Former presidential speechwriter, Matthew Scully, wrote in his book “Dominion”, “Instead of redesigning the factory farm to suit the animals, they are redesigning the animal to suit the factory farm.” Countless farms adopt this colony-cage style, confining each hen to the land the size of an A4 paper in their lifetime.
Some argue that there are no ethical problems if animals are killed instantly and humanely, or raised in a free-range environment. However, most businesses will prioritize efficiency over compassion, especially when they have been successful in making it illegal to provide evidence of their cruel actions. According to the New York Times, quote “through the “The Animal and Ecological Terrorism Act,” prohibits filming or taking pictures on livestock farms to “defame the facility or its owner.” Violators would be placed on a “terrorist registry.” the idea of ‘free-ranching farming’ becomes more elusive, along with the fact that you can be treated as a terrorist when you merely attempt to unravel the deceptions of the farm industry.
What about its health benefits? We can lose excess weight, lower the risk of diabetes, improve kidney function, and lower blood sugar levels. A vegan diet may also provide benefits for type 2 diabetes and declining kidney function, according to BBC. Although a poorly planned vegan diet may not provide sufficient amounts of vitamin B12, selenium, or zinc, a carefully planned out diet with the help of supplements is a solution.
Alleviating the stressful conditions of these farms not only liberates the animals, but also the earth we reside on with pollutants. Livestock farming requires massive amounts of land and water, leading to deforestation and habitat pollution. A nature study found that quote ‘plant-based diets produce 75 percent less heat-trapping gas, generate 75% less water pollution, and use 75 percent less land than meat-based diets.’ Even if we do not go completely vegan and adopt a Low-meat diet lifestyle, those that include 50 grams of meat or less yields roughly half as many benefits to the world we reside in.
For those of you who just cannot resist the texture and flavor of meat, here is a great solution: plant-based meat. ‘Guga Foods’ is a meat expert and a cooking YouTuber who has gathered around 4 million subscribers. Here in this video, he reacts to vegan meat. In the video, he says “The texture is like meatloaf, and I think it actually tastes pretty good. It doesn’t scream steak but it screams burger to me”. As the taste is now confirmed by an expert, meat lovers can now also enjoy their plant-based meal for today.
Replacing just one meal in a day with a plant-based diet will save our world significantly from the impacts of climate change. Try these easy recipes to reduce carbon emissions and save the animals.
The analysis found that plant-based diets produce 75 percent less heat-trapping gas, generate 75 percent less water pollution, and use 75 percent less land than meat-rich diets — those that include at least 100 grams of meat daily, the equivalent of one steak around the size of a deck of cards.lose excess weight, lowering the risk of diabetes, improving kidney function, and lowering blood sugar levels can lead to a higher daily intake of certain beneficial nutrients.
For instance, poorly planned vegan diets may not provide sufficient amounts of vitamin B12, niacin, riboflavin (vitamin B2), vitamin D, calcium, iodine, selenium, or zinc That’s why it’s essential to choose whole plant foods and fortified foods. You may need to consider supplements for nutrients such as vitamins B12 and D, zinc, and calcium, since these may be lacking in a vegan diet.
A vegan diet may also provide benefits for type 2 diabetes and declining kidney function. Indeed, vegans tend to have lower blood sugar levels and higher insulin sensitivity and may have a lower risk of developing type 2 diabetes Go vegan for at least one meal a day - its as simple as eating salad for one meal OR eat plant-based animal steak.
On factory farms, animals are forced to reside in cramped conditions, often in windowless sheds where there is no natural sunlight, no grass and no fresh air. These conditions are breeding grounds for disease outbreaks, as well as injuries caused by living in such stressful conditions. Many of their natural instincts and needs are denied to them, all in the name of producing meat and dairy products as quickly and cheaply as possible.
Now think about the conditions of a prison in Argentina, one of the notorious prisons in the world. The conditions are not different. At least the prisoners committed some sort of crime Ethos for meat experts - they think there is a difference but still think it tastes good.
Written by Chaewon Bae
