Health Sciences 2610F/G Lecture Notes - Zoonosis, Xenotransplantation, Eating Animals
28 Mar 2014
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In urban north america, our primary relationship with animals is as food or. To a lesser extent as pets: eating meat can be something we just do" without thinking. How much meat do we eat: according to agriculture canada (2004), in a year the average canadian (+18 years of age) will consume: Inhumane conditions in factory farming: meat in north america is relatively cheap because of factory farming if you eat meat you support this kind of agriculture people believe. If you eat meat, you contribute to the problems of animal cruelty and bio hazardous agriculture. The only way to avoid these harmful effects is to go vegan: not necessarily the rise of organic meat production could avoid those pitfalls, and allow you to continue to eat meat. Animals as test subjects: zoonotic infections and xenotransplantation. If your outcome focus is so good that it justifies most of the means meant to get it the outcome would be so good.
