Omnivores

Omnivores

  • Submitted By: YoungEmperor
  • Date Submitted: 10/03/2013 11:22 AM
  • Category: English
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We are faced with choices on a daily basis, as omnivores we are here to survive as part of our body’s innate survival methods to not only live but flourish exceptionally. Never the less there are several choices humanity faces up to this day such as hunting-gathering, moral code of conduct and health.
The oldest form of food production hunting-gathering is the cheapest way to acquire food, but it is extremely energy consuming and can even cause death. Even when equipped with the proper tools needed, it is no easy task, influenced by our human needs to continue to live sacrifices must be made in order for society to continue to go. A sacrifice that back in the ancient times that were made every day, and sometimes human lives were lost in order to make sure society can live on for another day. Pollan describes these hardships as one acquiring the hunters eye, “my attention to everything around me, and deafness to everything else, is complete… everything is amplified” (pp.334-335). Hunting for food in those days were the job of a man, his biological responsibility to be the provider and the distributer of the goods from the meat that the family eat causes one to adapt in order to survive, a skill honed from the basis of that idea, having to revert to a barbaric state in order to make sure love ones can prosper and not have to worry about a meal. Humans make choices that may seem unethical or harmful to other but those unspoken rules can be put aside when it comes down to the survival of one’s own need to make sure that there is always a meal available on a day to day basis.
The world that we live in is considered to be a “dog eat dog” and everyone wants to be that dog on top. In this piece of work moral code of conduct is put aside so that we as humanity can flourish every day without any worries of where the next meal will come from. Pollan illustrates in his book how animals such as chicken and cows are treated poorly in order to allow large scale production of...