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Caleb Ellis
Professor Blandford
UWRT 1103
November 2, 2015
Annotated Bibliography Final
Ballaro, Beverly, and Nancy Sprague. Vegetarianism Promotes Both Human and Planetary
Health. Points Of View: Vegetarianism (2015): 1. Points of View Reference

Center. Web.

28 Oct. 2015.
This source argues that adopting a vegetarian lifestyle will aid in improving the health of
an obese society and a world filled with global warming. It brings up multiple points about
medical studies that have shown various health benefits within a vegetarian diet. The source
argues that if most people cut meat out of their diet there will be a large increase in the health of
our society. It is clearly written from a point of view that supports vegetarians.
This source will be helpful because it will provide me with the true thoughts of people
who support vegetarians. I will be introduced to some of the principles and reasoning behind a
vegetarians actions. Also, the answers to many of my questions should be highlighted within this
source questions such as, what are some reasons people choose to become a vegetarian? This
article, being from the standpoint of vegetarian supporters, will be valuable if I compare the
writings of a non-vegetarian supporter, and see how the points differ and why. Also, it would be a
little more useful if the length of the article was extended but I still think it will provide a
valuable point of view.

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I found this article at the Point of View Reference Center database at UNCCs library,
which makes it a credible source. Author Beverly Ballaro is the associate director of Harvard
Medical School alumni magazine, writer for Harvard Medical School and editor in Harvard
Medical School and serves as an author in this article. Nancy Sprague, co-author, has a BS
degree from the University of New Hampshire and a Masters Degree in Health Policy from
Dartmouth Colleges Center for the Evaluative and Clinical Sciences. Nancy has worked in
private medical practice, home medical care, nursing, and recently as Director of Ambulatory
Operations for a large Academic Medical Center. She is a fellow in the American College of
Medical Practice Executives and provides great insight into health care, clinic administration,
and human resource research.
Corliss, Richard, et al. "Should We All Be Vegetarians? (Cover Story)." Time Europe 160.16
(2002): 56. Academic Search Complete. Web. 28 Oct. 2015.
This source answers the question that is present in the title: should we all be vegetarians?
It highlights some of the reasons people are vegetarians and some of the benefits that are known
in a vegetarian diet. At the same time, the source provides points about how meat eating can
support your body and provides other convincing reasons to eat meat. It also provides thoughts
from medical professionals, on the subject of vegetarians, to provide different points of view.
This source will be very helpful to me because it shows arguments from both sides of the
debate on vegetarians and breaks them down. This article attempts to form an answer of why
people should be vegetarians or why they should not. Because this article is written from a
neutral point of view, it will be very valuable because most of my other sources are written from
very strong vegetarian stand points, or very anti-vegetarian stand points. I think this article will
be most helpful in providing me answers to why people become vegetarians and should also hit

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points about health benefits, as it includes information from medical professions on the subject,
as well as statistics. I dont think that this article will be weak, as I think it is among few written
from a seemingly neutral standpoint.
I found this article under the Academic Search Complete database at the UNCC library,
which makes it credible. One main author, Richard Corliss, is a well-known movie critic who
writes articles on the side.
Driscoll, Sally, and Ann Griswold. "Vegetarianism: An Overview." Points Of View:
Vegetarianism (2015): 1. Points of View Reference Center. Web. 28 Oct. 2015.
This source is an overview to everything vegetarian. It highlights basic vegetarian beliefs,
types of vegetarians, reasons to go vegetarian, and health information surrounding life as a
vegetarian. It provides people that dont know anything at all about vegetarianism with basic
principles I suppose one could call it a dummies guide to vegetarians.
This source will likely provide me with a few short answers to some of my questions.
However, the main role that I think this source will serve will be to introduce me to other
possible questions or give me a good starting ground from which to branch out. Because this is
an overview, the answers will likely not be in depth but will serve to spark my research further
into the things that it highlights. My current knowledge of vegetarians is scarce, so any new
information I learn will be valuable. It would be more helpful if the article was a bit longer, but
since it is an overview, it is expected to be brief.
I found this source at the Point of View Reference Center database at UNCCs library,
which makes it a credible source. This source is also credible because of the authors, Sally
Driscoll and Ann Griswold. Sally Driscoll began writing at a young age and found a love for

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short stories. She has posted short stories, articles, and poetry in places like Daily Science
Fiction, Asimovs Science Fiction, Interzone etc. She now works at a senior copy editor on a
medical journal. Ann Griswold has a PhD in biomedical sciences from the University of Florida.
She then worked as a medical writer for the UF Health Science Center news office. She is
currently enrolled in a masters program in science journalism at Johns Hopkins, Writing
Seminars.
Issitt, Micah, and Rosalyn Carson-Dewitt. Vegetarianism is an Unhealthy Dietary Choice.
Points of View: Vegetarianism (2015): 1. Points of View Reference Center. Web. 28 Oct.
2015.
This article argues that vegetarian diets do not provide sufficient nutrients to live a
healthy lifestyle, and has doubtful benefit to conservation and ecological management. The
source makes the point that most vegetarians do not receive the vitamins and nutrients that
people who eat the meat of animals do. It also argues that diets with a lot of plants and
vegetables can lead to digestive problems. This is written from a point of view that counters that
of vegetarians.
This article will provide me with a different point of view that can counter the views
found in one of my previous articles about the benefits of a vegetarian lifestyle. Having two
separate point of views on the same subject will allow me to look into why they differ and which
one seems to be more credible. It can also provide answers to some of the questions I have and
help me explore my information at a greater depth. I think that it will help in addressing the
questions I am looking into about the health side of vegetarians, as it argues in favor of the
nutrients in meat, which gives me two things to compare. Although it would be helpful if this

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article provided a greater amount of non-vegetarian points of view, I think it will provide me
with valuable information to think about and look into.
I found this article at the Point of View Reference Center database at the UNCC library,
which makes it credible. Author Micah Issitt works with academic publishers, libraries and
research institutions to help create easy to read articles that form understandings of critical and
complex issues. Rosalyn Carson-Dewitt, co-editor, received an MD from Michigan State in
1991. Carson-Dewitt has worked on the Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy, and is a
medical and scientific writer with experience as editor-in-chief of Drugs, Alcohol, and Tobacco:
Learning about Addictive Behavior and Encyclopedia of Drugs, Alcohol and Addictive
Behavior.
Stuart, Tristram. The Bloodless Revolution: A Cultural History of Vegetarianism from 1600 to
Modern Times. New York: W.W. Norton & Co, 2007. Print.
This book contains biographies of figures significant in the development of vegetarianism
from the beginning of the English Civil War to modern day time. It highlights adventures
throughout places like India and looks into scientific and moral controversies within
vegetarianism. Seventeenth century European travelers returning from India explain to Western
culture a meatless society they observes that thrived off vegetables, milk, and fruit.
This information will help me a great deal in discovering the history of vegetarianism.
Although my paper only looks at the birth of vegetarianism in the U.S., and this book covers the
development of vegetarianism in the entire world, I will still be able to find valuable information.
The book would be more useful to me if it was entirely on the development of vegetarianism in
the U.S. alone. However, I could not find a reliable source that just talked about vegetarianism

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from the standpoint of the U.S., because I think that it developed here later than other places,
such as Europe.
I found this source when I searched under the everything tab at UNCCs library. This is
a credible source also because the author, Tristram Struart, is a reliable author. He is an
international award-winning author, has been featured on TED talks, and is a renowned activist
waging a worldwide war against food waste. He has been awarded the international
environmental award, and the Sophie Prize, an Observer Food Monthly award. Additionally, he
found the environmental charity Feedback, which works to internationally improve the
environmental impact of food.