I read the book 'The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice and Sustainability' written by Lierre Keith. I didn't read the entire book but instead I only read the argument put forward that was relevant to my dissertation title. This was a political argument challenging the idea that you can only feed everyone if we are all vegetarians. This was a good resource as it conflicted with my dissertation title: Keith was suggesting that adopting a vegetarian diet does not have beneficial implications for the environment. By using a source that was not biased towards my topic, I was able to write a more powerful and persuasive dissertation. Moreover I myself was able to refute or think of solutions to the problems she had put forward, thus it formed a successful part of my dissertation. It improved my ability to use and apply my own knowledge that I had gained from my resources. I wrote approximately 500 words using this resource. To help me do this, I made notes from the book. These are shown below. I will continue to collect sources and hopefully will come across some other resources that suggest vegetarianism does not benefit the environment.

Notes on 'The Vegetarian Myth':

• Cattle fed grain  as so cheap + subsidised as such a surplus. If grain production were not such a lucrative process, cattle would not be fed grain
• Cattle should npot be fed grain: it turns the normally neutral rumen (first stomach) acidic - cow becomes sick +bloated
• Grain causes cattle fatten quicker - heavier quicker so more lucrative in the process
• Agriculture destroys topsoil
• Manure + animals living +dying on land is natural way to fertilise + replenish the topsoil - otherwise would have use artificial fertilisers that require fossil fuels to produce
• The surplus of grain being produced has allowed population numbers to increase far beyond their natural size