World Peace Diet Analysis

Dr. Will Tuttle, author of The World Peace Diet, presents some radical and unsettling ideas in his book regarding how our food choices are affected by religion, science and our relationships with the animals we eat every day. In Chapter 9 of the book, Reductionist Science and Religion, Tuttle discusses the herding culture that we have become, our negligence for living creates in the pursuit of science and how the innate evil within us stems from our everyday meals.
Long before we farmed the land or herded sheep and cattle, humans were hunter gatherers. We roamed the land eating when we were hungry whether it was berries or animals we hunted. All this changed when we discovered the means of putting our supply of food in our own control. With …show more content…
Or more specifically, our favourite foods. Before farming, if you wanted strawberries or apples or bananas or any specific kind of fruit, you’d need to find a tree and hope that on that tree there was some food that was ripe and good for eating. With farming, you could have any fruit you wanted after they all grew out. You could store the fruit so you could have it any time and eat it whenever you wanted. The same idea applied with animals. We learned that if we kept animals the same way we kept fruits, we could also have meat anytime and not have to hunt for it. However, farming and herding were two radical ideas. Farming created ownership of the land and herding created ownership of animals. Both of these ideas were once strange and even outright ridiculous. The idea of owning the earth on which we stand and the idea of claiming ownership of another living being. These ideas might have been met with …show more content…
The same reasoning can be applied to experiments done on humans. Science “cultivates the cold and calculating eye that validates reducing beings to numbers in the cost/benefit analyses carried out by industrial economists and military strategists. It has helped legitimize the herding culture's practice of commodifying animals and nature and, by extension, each other and ourselves.” It is the ultimate justification for ethically questionable actions. “Just as ideas of supremacy justified the cruel Nazi experiments, they also justify the cruel experiments we perform by the untold thousands every day on defenseless animals.” The pursuit of discovery seems to justify our actions because the end justifies the means. If asked if researchers killed a million lab animals in order to create the cure to cancer, aids HIV or discovered the secret to immortality, I would say it justifies it. I wouldn’t be happy about the millions of lives lost, but given that it produces such a revolutionary end, it may be somewhat justified. However, animal activists will be extremely unhappy with the lives wasted in order to reach this end and they are right. Who are we to kill millions in order for us to survive? Humans are not gods living amongst each other while “animals, trees, ecosystems, and all of nature are reduced to being mere disposable props in

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