eating animals by jonathan safran foer

this book is not a guilt trip for carnivores.
if you want to learn something important
if you want to become some part of a movement
if you want to challenge your mind
if you want to change
if you don't want to change...
read this book.



i'm not sure if it's fair to say this is a book.
i think it is better credited as a revelation.

jonathan writes so philosophically
on a topic that is so controversial
that is irrestiably luring

he captured me immediality with
his honesty about his thoughts
his pre-conceived notions
his family traditions
that influence(d) the way he thinks(thought) about eating animals
according to my gained knowledge on research (thanks, 200)
this is just brilliant penmanship on a tough topic
but
even more than that
he shares the pages of his book
for others to state their experiences
vegans
factory farm workers
ranchers
farmers
vegetarians who are pro-meat
and this is what really makes this book amazing.

i really can't say more
because you need to read this book.

but here are some of my favourite key points:

1. we can justify being hungry and eating an animal that has died an unfair traumatic death. we cannot legally rape an animal because we are horny. if it
seems completely off the wall to propose that argument. ask yourself why? what is the difference between hungry and horny? does an animal that is raped experience more or less trauma than one butchered? why?
2. the amount of hormones, antibiotics and poor feed that animals receive on factory farms is a source of major illness for society today. we create this cycle of tortured flesh (factory animals) and we eat it and it becomes our own tortured flesh (illness)
3. the first factory farm began as a mistake.
a woman asked for 50
and received 500
she kept them all.

i wonder...
would we have stumbled to this destruction any way?

read this book.
call me
we will seek soy lattes
and discuss what we read.