Geopolitics media entry - Vegetarianism and veganism

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Through the two articles retrieved from Les Echos and The Guardian, we can analyse the new alimentary trend growing during the last years of vegetarianism and veganism both aiming on the animal originated food.

The two articles took very different points of view on this alimentation change occurring in the society. First of all, the Guardian is focussing more on the vegan way of eating whereas les Echos is centred on vegetarianism. As the two newspapers treated this topic from their own point of view, it is clearly possible to underline and analyse couple of differences and similarities between them.

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[...] At the complete opposite of The Guardian, they even denigrate the entire plants and grains diet through the developing of vegetal steaks. Les Echos uses a very sarcastic tone explaining the new market of soy, corn and whole transformed in shape of steak or nuggets trying to reach the meat texture. The transition from a classic diet to a vegan one appears very extreme in this article whereas The Guardian is giving many reasons to go for it and exposes it as a real solution. [...]

[...] The New York Times is explaining that now the vegan and vegetarian food industries are also taking part in politic in order to increase their power against the huge food multinationals. All the lobbying made by those huge companies and their engagement in politic is actually only for their own profit, in order to appear as reliable manufacturers and encourage eating some products. To my mind, the real question around all this is finally to know where is the profit standing? [...]

[...] First of all, the Guardian is focussing more on the vegan way of eating whereas les Echos is centred on vegetarianism. As the two newspapers treated this topic from their own point of view, it is clearly possible to underline and analyse couple of differences and similarities between them. I. Similarities and differences First of all, we can underline a huge difference in the titles of the articles. As we said before, Les Echos is targeting the vegetarian diet, what means stop all kind of meat, whereas the Guardian is oriented on the veganism, much more restrictive, allowing you to eat everything that does not have an animal origin. [...]

[...] The newspaper develops a much more immediate effect of the veganism and the ethic around it. The subtitles are also reinforcing the difference on the views taken by the authors as Les Echos underlines all the problems linked with the consumption of meat and the Guardian stays more neutral on the meat impact but develops more the fact that, anyway, it won't be enough on an environmental position to become vegan: “but going vegan may not solve all our problems ” (The Guardian). [...]

[...] It is time to open our eyes on the reality of lobbying around the food market and stop to believe everything said. When I come to think about it, I finally realise that our society is a victim of some political affiliations and that some companies are just using us for their own benefits, like if we were simple pawns that they can move as they wish to. Reference Strom. S. (2016, March 6th). Trade Group Lobbying for Plant-Based Foods Takes a Seat in Washington. [...]