Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen addresses those issues that are keeping you awake at night, including: —Why far fewer Americans identify as vegetarians compared to most other industrialized nations… —From an evolutionary biology perspective, whether human beings were designed to eat other animals to begin with… —The impact of Americans' swelling appetite for meat on animal welfare and the environment… —Whether diverse schools of philosophical thought might argue for or against the practice of eating meat… —The conditions to which pigs, chickens, and cows are subjected in factory farms in America, and finally… —What the growing demand for "meatless meat" and the expansion of companies like Impossible Foods and Beyond Meats tells us about the future of meat consumption in America.   Where To Go To Get More Information: 1. Rates of Vegetarianism by Country https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetarianism_by_country 2. American Vegetarian Population https://news.gallup.com/poll/238328/snapshot-few-americans-vegetarian-vegan.aspx 3. Food, Inc. (2008) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1286537/ 4. Impact of Meat-Eating on Water Supply https://www.businessinsider.com/nestle-water-scarcity-meat-consumption-cable-2016-4 5. Utilitarianism https://www.iep.utm.edu/util-a-r/ 6. In Defense of Animals, by Peter Singer 7. Risk of Heart Disease, Meat-Eaters vs. Vegetarians https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/255644.php 8. Are Humans Supposed to Eat Meat? https://www.peta.org/features/are-humans-supposed-to-eat-meat/ 9. Animal Liberation, by Peter Singer 10. Reducing Animal Suffering https://reducing-suffering.org/ 11. The Omnivore's Dilemma, by Michael Pollan 12. Mad Cow Disease https://www.centerforfoodsafety.org/issues/1040/mad-cow-disease/about-mad-cow-disease 13. Beyond Meats' Market Cap https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/26/beyond-meats-13point4-billion-market-cap-is-beyond-ridiculous-investor.html 14. Impossible Foods Sold in Stores https://gizmodo.com/the-fda-has-finally-approved-the-impossible-burger-to-b-1836880448

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