Essay 2
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Introduction
Out of the three articles, the article “Change Your Diet to Combat Climate Change” from CNN is the most credible because it does the most thorough job covering the issue it is reporting on.
The article “Change Your Diet to Combat Climate Change” from CNN mainly focuses on thinking about the whole population of human beings changing to nutrition that comprises only consumption of plant based diet, which is difficult to visualize how someone would go about applying such a radical modification. There are many reasons why individuals initially go vegetarian that either relates to their moral principles about slaying other organisms, well-being-related problems, and the most critical factor in global warming. Vegetarian and vegan foods can result in even lesser conservatory gas releases (Harwatt, 2019). Still, a vegetarian diet is the minimum severe that is equally healthy and may decrease conservatory gas releases adequate for us to live within ecological limits.
First, the article talks about being aware of a plant-based diet making someone healthier by lowering the risk for obesity, heart disease, and Type 2 diabetes. It reports on a study that was done at the University of Oxford, which is a renowned research institution. The writer caution that a global modification in nutrition and food manufacture is required as many individuals across the universe are malnourished, which consists of those people who are over and undernourished, and food manufacturing is surpassing environmental targets, controlling climate variation, biodiversity damage, and pollution.
The article establishes its credibility by inserting a statement from a licensed nutritionist known as Sharon Palmer that tells that in today’s agricultural system, we grow plants to feed animals that require resources and input like water, land, pesticides, and fertilizer to grow. And then we provide plants to animals and care for them, while they give manure and methane.
The article “Change your diet to combat climate change in 2019” is similar to the Veganism article. They both have a positive view of eating a meatless diet. This article seems the same to the Beef magazine because they both campaign for a meatless diet and focus more on a vegetarian diet. However, The CNN article is different from Beef magazine because CNN focuses more on a vegetarian diet, while Veganism focuses on the alternatives for plant protein. Beef magazine tells that scientists have long established that the alternatives can give health benefits, including helping the brain, bones, heart, and even longevity. The CNN article says that a plant-based diet can make someone healthier by lowering the risks for heart disease, diabetes, and obesity.
Out of the three articles, the article “Change your diet to combat climate change in 2019” is the most credible because it does the most thorough job covering the issue it is reporting on. The article reports on research that was done at the University of Oxford, which is a renowned research institution. It adds a statement of a licensed nutritionist Sharon Palmer who is a nutrition expert.
Even if these articles have some slight differences, the only significant difference is that CNN article does the most thorough job covering the issue it is reporting on. The article interviews and gives information on professional dietician in the field and also quotes credible sources. In contrast, the other article does not do a thorough job reporting on the issue it's reporting on and does not quotes any credible sources
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Harwatt, H. (2019). Including animal to plant protein shifts in climate change mitigation policy: a proposed three-step strategy. Climate Policy, 19(5), 533-541
HYPERLINK "https://doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2018.1528965" https://doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2018.1528965
Song, G., Li, M., Fullana-i-Palmer, P., Williamson, D., & Wang, Y. (2017). Dietary changes to mitigate climate change and benefit public health in China. Science of the Total Environment, 577, 289-298.
HYPERLINK "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.10.184" https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.10.184
