Henry Salt's Plea For Vegetarianism

“Naked Lunch” is a short play, written by Michael Hollinger in 2003. In this single-scene play, a pair of exes are having an uncomfortable meal together. A miss-matched vase of flowers on the table, “a small vase with too many flowers in it” or “a large vase with too few” (Meyer, 1086). Wine was being consumed, or at least a “bottle of wine has been opened” (1086). The male character, Vernon, had personally prepared the meal, steak, and was upset when she would not eat the meat. The woman, Lucy, explained that she had become a vegetarian, but Vernon could not accept this as an explanation. He proceeded to tease and then to ridicule her for her newfound vegetarianism. He could not accept her choice to decline the steak, seeming to take it personally. His insults turned to insistence, eventually escalating to literal force. By the end he literally forces her through volume, and forcefulness, to eat the meat against her will, ”I SAID EAT THE MEAT!” (Meyer, 1089). She capitulates rather easily, preferring to avoid further conflict, but then quietly returns to the corn.

Born in Porbandar, India, Gandhi studied law and organized boycotts against British institutions in peaceful forms of civil protest. He was killed in 1948.Even after Gandhi’s assassination, his commitment to nonviolence and his belief in simple living,making his own clothes, eating a vegetarian diet and using fasts for self-purification as well as a means of protest have been a beacon of hope for oppressed people throughout the world. Gandhi’s actions inspired future human rights movements around the

Take a gander around your local mega-mart today, and what do you see? An epidemic of food like substances taking over the supermarket shelves; an epidemic that has substituted real food for fake, shown links to obesity, and has altered our eating habits. There is, however, a solution that allows you to stick to the healthy foods you want to eat and avoid the foods you don’t.

In many ways, food has been imperative to political and social influences on global human society. In chapters five and seven of An Edible History of Humanity by Tom Standage, the importance of food and its effect on history is shown throughout the major themes of trading, the idea that food is equal to wealth, and the life-long sustenance that foods provide to people. In Standage’s book, middle-eastern botanists traded the spice of cinnamon, and potatoes were traded and seen as a valued food in all of Europe. Standage proves that food equals wealth when he wrote about the importance of spices across the Middle East. He says that people who owned spices were seen as “luxurious” because they could serve delicacies such as rare spices and could serve more flavorful food. Finally, the sustenance that spices, as well as maize/potatoes, provide is actually very similar to each other. Although spices could be seen as a more “secondary” source of sustenance, the rarity and high demand for spices allowed for trading and receiving nutritious food. On the other hand, maize was very important because almost anyone could grow maize and it could, therefore, be used as a major food supply.

The world is slowly dying. The idea that the world would end is inevitable, and thus posing the question of what must be done in order to prevent the end of the world. The elucidation of this problem is synthetic meat. Synthetic meat is a serious topic up for discussion. This discussion is divided because of the moral aspect involved.

Foer had a lot of influence in his life starting with his grandmother who he considered her as a role model he loved her passion with food although she had one recipe chicken with carrot he clearly admires her. When he first became a vegetarian was in response to an argument made by his babysitter when she told him she doesn’t want to hurt animals. Even though he thinks killing animals are wrong he spends his teenagers and collage years wavering between eating meat and being vegetarian until he become a father which inspired him and his wife who decided to pledge to full vegetarianism, his inspiration was not about what change him but it was about ramming the changes. Foer had to face the possibility of settling on nourishment decisions for his sons behalf and coming up to a clarification that he would also digest so he didn’t force his sons in becoming vegetarian he gave them the free to choose because he wanted his kids to act to their values not

Mohandas Gandhi was born on October 2, 1869 in Porbandar India to a Hindu father and Jainist mother. His very religious mother was a practitioner of Vaishnavism (worship of the Hindu god Vishnu). Influenced by his mother's beliefs Gandhi was governed by self-discipline and nonviolence. He soon got married and sailed off to study law. When Gandhi returned he was in shock of what had happened to India, in just 1 year. Gandhi's beliefs never changed and he still strongly believed in self-discipline and nonviolence. He wanted to make a change in India’s cultures. And that’s exactly what he did, he made the change he saw in the world. Gandhi used many tactics to get India's independence, such as Civil disobedience, embracing the enemy, and acceptance of jail time.

Gandhi becomes interested in his own dietary issues as a child when he is convinced that eating meat would eliminate his weaknesses by one of his friends. During his childhood, his family was greatly against meat-eating because of their following for the Hindu religion called Vaishnava (Diets and Dieting: A Cultural Encyclopedia, 113). He enjoyed his new way of eating for a year, but realizes that lying to his parents is far worse than nourishing himself with meat (Gandhi An Autobiography, 30). In the future, he never consumed meat because he respected his parents, religion and vegeterianism. Later on in life, he visits the Kali temple and disagrees with the killing of animals during a sacrifice. This belief does relate to his opposition of not consuming meat since Gandhi claims, “To my mind the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being” (247). He never harms or injures animals after this experience and continues to believe in such a vow as ahimsa. His understanding of

It is very easy to find that these two leaders living in two very different social and political circumstances. Gandhi’s mother’s education, the putlibai's moral and his father’s dead influenced his thought that advocated the use of satvagraha, "truth-force" and rejected any aid. Apart from that, the two experiences that he was prejudiced cause he wanted to change the unjust situation.

In his 2009 article “Eating Meat,” Jonathan Safran Foer uncovers the cruel and gruesome truth about factory farms and how they violate animal rights. Foer believes changing food habits prevents the sufferings of animals. He explains that factory farmed animals are suffering due to their inhuman living conditions and style of killing. Foer explains that chickens are cramped with twisted legs and cows are skinned or dismembered while still conscious. In addition, Foer clarifies that after making an animal suffer and go through torture, it is just plain wrong to eat it. Foer would often acknowledge his grandmother’s story, emphasizing her famine during the War and how she had refused a piece of meat offered to her. Even though she had been starving for days, she refused the piece of meat.

So, there are many different types of vegetarians. And probably just as many definitions. As a fact, vegetarians today are everywhere. They belong to different social groups in both rich or poor countries. In parts of the world such as Africa, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia, meat is uncommon, and therefore it is an easy choice to be vegetarian. Surveys show that in both the United States and Britain about 4% of population is vegetarian. More and more people are choosing vegetarianism every day. Many people became vegetarian for health reasons. They look and feel better when they stop eating meat. Some famous vegetarians include Leonardo da Vinchi, Albert Einstein, Thomas Edison,

Born on October 2, 1869 in Porbandor, Kathiawar, India, Mahatmas Karmachord Gandhi was the son of Karmchand Gandhi, chief minister, and Putlibai, who was deeply religious lived in part of the British Empire (Biography.com Editors). With early marriages common, Mahatmas married at age 1 (Housel, Debra. Pp. 73-75). Mahatmas married Kasturba Makanji, the merchant’s daughter. As a result of the marriage, the teenagers rebelled by smoking, eating meat, and stealing money from household servants. Althrough Mahatmas had a rebellious attitude, Mahatmas was a shy, remarkable student, who was so timid that he slept with the lights on even as a teenager. In 1885, Mahatmas’s father passed as well as his first young child. With an interest in becoming a doctor, Mahatmas’s family steered him to enter the legal profession just as his father wanted him to be a government minister. In 1891, Mahatmas’s mother passed. With grief, Mahatmas struggled in being a lawyer (Biography.com Editors). Mahatmas’s mother was very religious and a devoted practioner of Vaishnavism, self-discipline, and nonviolence (History.com Staff). As a result of this, Mahatmas grew up worshipping the Hindu God, Vishnu, and followed Jainism, an ancient Indian religion that stressed nonviolence, fasting, meditation, and vegetarianism. In 888, Mahatmas moved to London and struggled with the transition to the Western Culture. Mahatmas

When Michael Pollan's book The Omnivore's Dilemma was published, many readers began questioning him for advice on what they should eat in order to stay healthy. In his more recent book, In Defense of Food, he responds with three rules, "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants"(Pollan 1). This seven word response seems too simple for a relatively complicated question, but as he further elaborates these rules into specific guidelines, this summary turns out to be surprisingly complete. Using inductive and deductive reasoning, he debunks the ideas behind nutritionism and food science, and proves that the western diet is the cause for food related diseases. Inductive reasoning is when a

In The Vegetarian by Han Kang, what appears to be one insubordinate South Korean woman’s choice to not eat meat, becomes a much larger issue revolving around what is normal, and just how far others should be allowed to impose their own views of reality onto another person’s life. Yeong-hye’s unusual ways, while strange to the mainstream culture’s expectations, present their own rationality in her mind. She sees it as a way to oppose the violent tendencies of human nature, in order to find her own peace in life. Kang takes this idea to the farthest extent with the philosophical question, should a person be allowed to choose to die because their life is just that, their own life? The unique perspective of this novel comes from a South Korean author, which helps to develop her questions based a childhood trauma in her country. This tragedy leads to her novel’s exploration of the idea of what is normal, the impossibility of understanding another individual’s idea of normal, and is it rational to commit suicide if it is connected to one’s idea of normal. All these questions are connected through Yeong-hye’s choice to be a vegetarian, and are presented to the reader to form their own views throughout the novel.

Eventually Gandhi helped pave the way for India’s independence however it wasn’t all over. India began to divide between Muslim’s and Hindu’s and it was settled that the North and Eastern parts of India would be given to Muslim’s and called Pakistan and Hindu’s would be left with the rest of India as their homeland. Thus happening all against Gandhi’s wishes. As scenes move on, Gandhi takes ill, and it becomes known that he has gone on a hunger strike due to the violence between Muslims and Hindu’s. At one point it is clarified