Persuasive research essay about MEAT vs VEGETABLES

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Andres Bravo

Professor Grimaldo

Research, Genre & Context

Meat vs. Vegetables

Nowadays, one of the biggest debate is that a meat free diet is better than a balanced diet between meat and vegetables. My parents always tell me that we should eat a little bit of everything in order to have a balance diet. I don’t eat vegetables at all. It is very rarely and with this essay I wish to shed some light in this topic and demonstrate that meat is as necessary as vegetables are. In order to prove this I will show what are the benefits of eating meat and consequences of not eating it. An article that called my attention was “The History of All-Meat Diets” by Georgia Ede, where she shows how ancient civilizations depended only on meat based diets and surprisingly did not face the health issues we 21st century civilization do face. I believe the biggest misconception in this subject is that people believe that eliminating meat or only eating vegetables is the solution to all issues with respect to health. An article by The American Society of Nutrition shared this thought in 2014.

The primary issues with this topic is that an entire meat based diet is correlated with higher risks of heart disease, hypertension, atherosclerosis, hyperlipidemia, among other conditions. However, vegetarians and vegan diets are also correlated with other health conditions. The Everyday Health released an article where they explained ten scenarios where vegetables contribute to conditions such as Crohn's, runner´trot, hypertension, among others.

My purpose is to show that a diet meat free presents consequences like any other diet were a certain type of food is eliminated. I will further discuss additional reasons why animal based diets are considered morally wrong and how can this situations be addressed.

Works cited

Dow, Caitlin, PhD. "American Society For Nutrition." American Society for Nutrition. N.p., 02 Dec. 2015. Web. 20 May 2016.

Ede, Georgia, MD. "The History of All-Meat Diets - Diagnosis:Diet." DiagnosisDiet. N.p., 06 Apr. 2013. Web. 20 May 2016.

Ede, Georgia, MD. "WHO Says Meat Causes Cancer?" DiagnosisDiet. N.p., 11 May 2016. Web. 20 May 2016.

Thomas, Megan Anderson, MS. "American Society For Nutrition." American Society for Nutrition. N.p., 30 Sept. 2014. Web. 20 May 2016.

"10 Health Reasons Not to Eat Your Vegetables." EverydayHealth.com. N.p., 13 June 2012. Web. 20 May 2016.