Banerjee, Mandira. (2010). One Burger, Hold the Annotated Bibliography

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Banerjee, Mandira. (2010). One Burger, Hold the Meat -- Being Vegetarian in America.

New American Media. Retrieved April 7, 2013, from http://news.newamericamedia.org.

Banerjee is a media specialist and she presents data in this article on how many

Americans are vegetarians. The bottom line is different from other research for this paper because it doesn't attack factory farming. Banerjee is interested more in numbers and explanations for why people turn to vegetarianism than in ethics and morality.

The value of this piece is that it presents data (7.3 million Americans are vegetarians and another 22.8 million are "inclined" towards vegetarianism). Interestingly, the number of people who embrace vegetarianism is not growing, but those in America interested in "eating more vegetarian meals, or who are vegetarian-inclined, is sky-rocketing" (Banerjee). The vegetarian culture in India is referenced (which is noted for its embrace of vegetarianism vis-a-vis Hinduism), as is the ghastly amount of water (390 gallons) needed to raise a pound of beef vs. only 25 gallons to produce a pound of wheat.

Devries, Juliana. (2012). Making Choices: Ethics and Vegetarianism.

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Dissent, 59(2), 39-41

In this piece Devries writes a personal journal about how she became a vegetarian.

She also relates to climate change, world hunger, food-borne illnesses and she is vigorously opposed to feeding vegetarian protein to cattle while millions go hungry.

While not an "expert" per se Devries clearly has done her homework and as a result her short piece is full of worthwhile, pertinent information for this project. She notes that: 18% of greenhouse gas emissions come from livestock farming; meat consumption is "utterly unsuited to [a] sustainable future"; and that 43% of U.S. vegetarians are between the ages of 18-34. Since animals have the capacity to suffer they should have rights, she insists.

Henning, Brian G. (2011). Standing in Livestock's 'Long Shadow': The Ethics of Eating Meat

on a Small Planet. Ethics & The Environment, 16(2), 63-93.

Henning leaves nothing to the imagination in this worthy essay: he insists that the mass consumption of animals is responsible for problems from the human obesity epidemic to the heating up of the planet. He sounds.....

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