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jordya483 's review for:
Eating Animals
by Jonathan Safran Foer
I've been vegan for the last +3 years and even though I was very acquainted with most of the information presented in the book, many of the philosophical questions that Foer arises are very drastic as well as gentle, which invites everyone to question themselves. See, I never had a problem when I decided to stop supporting the food/fashion/etc industry when they depended on animal lives/welfare violations to generate profit; however, for most people, taking baby steps is necessary during their transition, and I totally respect that.
As Oprah puts it, what makes this book different is Foer's "empathy for human meat eaters, his willingness to let both factory farmers and food realm activists speak for themselves, and his talent for using humor to sweeten the argument."
I'm so happy this book is being sold and people get to know the truth. For their health, the planet, their loved ones, and the animals.
I think nothing sums up more accurately why you should read this book/stop supporting factory farming than the answer he gave when someone asked him how he could devote his life to worrying about a chicken over a child. This is what he said:
"Obviously I care more about kids than I care about chickens, but that's not to say that I have to choose. It's not a zero-sum game. People who care about animals tend to care about people. They don't care about animals to the exclusion of people. Caring is not a finite resource, and even more than that, it's like a muscle: the more you exercise it, the stronger it gets. [...] The question is, if we don't say no to this, what do we say not to? If we don't say NO to something that systematically abuses 50 billion animals, if we don't say NO to the number one cause of global warming, and not by a little bit, but by a lot, if we don't say NO to what the UN has said is one of the top causes of every significant environmental problem in the world, locally and globally, if we don't say NO to something that is clearly a prime factor in the generation of avian and swine flu (WHO), if we don't say NO to something that's making our antibiotics less effective and ineffective, if we don't say NO to something that causes 76 million cases of food-borne illnes every year, just what do we say NO to? This is not a case where we need to go to war with another country or spend a trillion dollars or elect a new government. We just need to say NO! to it.
As Oprah puts it, what makes this book different is Foer's "empathy for human meat eaters, his willingness to let both factory farmers and food realm activists speak for themselves, and his talent for using humor to sweeten the argument."
I'm so happy this book is being sold and people get to know the truth. For their health, the planet, their loved ones, and the animals.
I think nothing sums up more accurately why you should read this book/stop supporting factory farming than the answer he gave when someone asked him how he could devote his life to worrying about a chicken over a child. This is what he said:
"Obviously I care more about kids than I care about chickens, but that's not to say that I have to choose. It's not a zero-sum game. People who care about animals tend to care about people. They don't care about animals to the exclusion of people. Caring is not a finite resource, and even more than that, it's like a muscle: the more you exercise it, the stronger it gets. [...] The question is, if we don't say no to this, what do we say not to? If we don't say NO to something that systematically abuses 50 billion animals, if we don't say NO to the number one cause of global warming, and not by a little bit, but by a lot, if we don't say NO to what the UN has said is one of the top causes of every significant environmental problem in the world, locally and globally, if we don't say NO to something that is clearly a prime factor in the generation of avian and swine flu (WHO), if we don't say NO to something that's making our antibiotics less effective and ineffective, if we don't say NO to something that causes 76 million cases of food-borne illnes every year, just what do we say NO to? This is not a case where we need to go to war with another country or spend a trillion dollars or elect a new government. We just need to say NO! to it.