Animals for thought

Eating Animals, recommended by Karie Rose! and written by Jonathan Safran Foer, has captured the mind of this non-nonchalant, watered down vegetarian(me!).I n this book, Foer uses metaphors and stories to create discussion on this country’s purposeful blindness to meat processing and all that it entails. I appreciate Foer’s honesty. He is not afraid to comment on the absurdity of our actions or lack there of, especially in lieu of current environmental crises. Foer also comments on the innate sense of power that people have. It seems to be the right of people, especially when left to their technological devices, to corrupt the seemingly simplest things, i.e. eating!

Before child labor laws, there were businesses that treated their ten-year-old employees well. Society didn’t ban child labor laws because it’s impossible to imagine children working in a good environment, but because when you give that much power to businesses over powerless individuals, it’s corrupting. When we walk around thinking we have a greater right to eat an animal than the animal has a right to live without suffering, it’s corrupting. I’m not speculating. This is our reality. Look at what factory farming is. Look at what we as a society have done to animals as soon as we had the technological power. Look at what we actually do in the name of  “animal welfare” and ” humaneness” then decide if you still believe in eating meat.
Eating Animals p. 95 and 96
bekah*