jonathan safran foer book eating animals

With so many other moral injustices and inequalities in the industrial food system, why did you focus solely on meat?Ī. You make a powerful moral argument against eating meat.

Many many people have their own voice in the book - farmers, activists, nutritionists - and I wanted it to capture what a complicated and also what a first-person oriented topic meat is. I think of it as a kind of story that I’m telling - about my life, the decisions I’ve made, why having a kid changed my mind about some of these things - but also a conversation. I have strong opinions and I share them but I don’t think of my book as an argument. Unfortunately, conversations about meat have historically not really been conversations but arguments. I’ve talked to a fair number of parents who said I don’t want to feed my kids this stuff. I’ve heard from a lot of people who’ve read the book who frankly don’t care that much about animals, but for whom the human health stuff was just really shocking. If something comes on the TV about starving kids and I think, “oh god I don’t want to look because I’m not doing what I maybe should be doing.” You know all of the reasons why we can’t face certain things. I, of course, understand the impulse not to want to look, because I had that impulse many times a day with all kinds of issues. There are things in it that people really want to know. Jonathan Safran Foer Photo: Gianluca Gentilini A. To support our nonprofit environmental journalism, please consider disabling your ad-blocker to allow ads on Grist.

Jonathan safran foer book eating animals