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Eating less meat
by
Yixuan Wei
English 289, Section 93
Ms. Nancy E. Hindle
9/6/2012
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Outline
Thesis Statement: By eating less meat, human being can not only keep themselves away
from adipose but also help the environmental balance because meat are much fatter than
other food and need more natural resource to produce compare to vegetable.
I.
Just by eating too much meat, you can get a disease which can even kill
yourself. Also, by the way you are getting fat because eating meat, you are
putting the word to the end. (introduction, in essay will include thesis
statement)
II.
As the world creating much more wealth than before, more and more
people are getting too fat because they eat too much meat, so we should
try to control our want for meat in order to get away from those diseases
bring by obesity.
A. Since 1970s, more and more people are eating meat as their daily food,
which cause in 1990s a lot of people getting diabetes, hyperfine and so on.
(Popkin, Adair, and Ng 3-21)
1. High percentage of working getting the same disease makes
the society structure not as steady as before.
2. Once a lot of people die in that disease, the society would get
into flurried feeling period and lose a large amount of human
resource which is able to make effort for social development.
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B. Especially in developing country, they eat much more than before.
(Popkin, Adair, and Ng 3-21)
1. In developing country, not many people had enough money to
buy meat as daily food 10 years ago, so when they have more money, they
buy more meat even that is over their need.
2. For example in China, In my father’s generation, he didn’t get
enough meat in childhood, so he was really fat when he was able to earn
enough money buying meat.
C. “An array of large-scale programmatic and policy measures are being
explored in a few countries; however, few countries are engaged in serious
efforts to prevent the serious dietary challenges being faced.” (Popkin,
Adair, and Ng 3-21)
1. It is still not enough, even the society has paid much more
attention to dealing with obesity than 20 years ago.
2. Human being need to understand that too fat is now a disease,
which is able to end up of their life.
III.
Human should produce less meat in order to give back the land resource to
forest, because we all need trees to transform carbon dioxide into oxygen.
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A. “The forests in Turkey absorbed 7.99% of anthropogenic CO2
emissions, which was 312.31 Tg CO2 year-1 in 2005.” (TOLUNAY
265-279)
1. Once we need more land to produce food for those
animal that we feed to eat, forest seems like the only
apace we can change into farming place.
2. However, Forest has a crucial role on our
environmental balance so we have to stop this kind of
action, otherwise human would just kill themselves.
B. “At the same time herds cause wide-scale land degradation, with about
20 percent of pastures considered as degraded through overgrazing,
compaction and erosion.” (Andre 18-18)
1. Once we cut down the trees and use land to produce
food for livestock, we got lost on the quality of our land
because the natural balance has been broken.
2. Land is a limited resource in the earth which should not
be over used like this.
C. “Global meat production is projected to more than double from 229
million tonnes in 1999/2001 to 465 million tonnes in 2050, while milk
output is set to climb from 580 to 1043 million tonnes.” (Rome )
1. From above number we can image that more and more
trees will be cut in order to give more space to produce
meat.
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2. Now, I eat almost three piece of chicken a day. If I
could eat one piece a day, that would world much
different.
IV.
Livestock can produce meat as food for us, but they not only need
vegetable as their food but also waste our natural source and make
excretion.
A. “The livestock sector accounts for 9 percent of CO2 deriving from
human-related activities, but produces a much larger share of even
more harmful greenhouse gases. It generates 65 percent of humanrelated nitrous oxide, which has 296 times the Global Warming
Potential (GWP) of CO2. Most of this comes from manure.” (Rome )
1. Livestock seem like a good way to increase wealth fast
but in fact the environmental cost behind it is over what
human being can take.
B. “And it accounts for respectively 37 percent of all human-induced
methane (23 times as warming as CO2), which is largely produced by
the digestive system of ruminants, and 64 percent of ammonia, which
contributes significantly to acid rain.” (Rome )
1. Not only we would receive global warming but also the
acid rain would come after it.
2. The balance of natural begin to be destroyed step by
step.
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C. “Livestock are estimated to be the main inland source of phosphorous
and nitrogen contamination of the South China Sea, contributing to
biodiversity loss in marine ecosystems.” (Rome )
1. Just like a circle, we would destroyed almost everything
in order: land, air, water; but we do have a chance to
make it better by eating less.
V.
In sum, by eating less meat, we could save our health and the whole
environment which we all live in.
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Work Cited
TOLUNAY, Doğanay. "Total carbon stocks and carbon accumulation in living tree
biomass in forest ecosystems of Turkey.." Turkish Journal of Agriculture &
Forestry. 35.3 (2011): 265-279. Print.
Popkin, Barry, Linda Adair, and Shu Wen Ng. "Global nutrition transition and the
pandemic of obesity in developing countries.." Nutrition Reviews. 70.1 (2012): 321. Print.
Zhang, Liping, and Lixin Wu. "Can Oceanic Freshwater Flux Amplify Global
Warming?." Journal of Climate. 25.9 (2012): 3417-3430. Print.
Andre, Denis. "Saving Earth from sheep burps.." New Scientist. 183.2466 (2004): 18-18.
Print.
Rome, . "Livestock a major threat to environment." FAOnewsroom 29 Nov 2006, n. pag.
Print. <http://www.fao.org/newsroom/en/news/2006/1000448/index.html>.