“Eating Animals”, a Book That Questions Our Carnivorous Life

We eat meat every day, but we prefer not to know on how it came to our plate. Maybe it’s because we know that would take away the hunger know, states the author Jonathan Safran Foer, whose work “Eating Animals” has reignited the perennial debate about the meat industry. Safran Foer, considered one of the literary prodigies younger than 35 years in the United States is aware that many people will refuse to read it for fear of devastating arguments containing prevent them from returning to enjoy a steak.
“Those are precisely the readers that interest me, because obviously they care about and have certain values. If they did, would read the book and did not affect them. To match or not is unimportant to me the main thing is to agree that it is an important issue, “says Safron.
Safron Foer’s leap the thorny trial after the success of his novels “Everything Is Illuminated” and “So strong, so close” surprised many. It was becoming a father that made him consider how he wanted to feed their children and this led him to investigate thoroughly the operation of the meat industry. While sparing no details of what surreptitiously witnessed during two years in slaughterhouses and intensive livestock farms, which the writer believes is really horrible realization that “this is something chosen, that violence against animals is not accidental, but conscious , as is the destruction of the environment. “
And is that the meat industry is responsible, according to his research, much of the greenhouse effect, disproportionate emissions to air and water, especially that antibiotics do not start effect on humans due to consumption hormone-treated beef. Despite the enormous media coverage of the book, Safron has not received any pressure from the livestock industry. “Nothing, zero. They prefer not to fight, to endure the rain and to stop talking about them soon, “he says.
HISTORY
“Eating Animals” begins with the history of cooking chicken with carrots Safron’s grandmother, an immigrant happened very, very hungry in Europe. Then, review the matter philosophically and morally issues such as why cows and dogs do not?, Talk to each other, from traditional livestock activists or environmentalists.Safron is now vegetarian but hates the box that represents the term. However, it has never tried to impose anything on anyone – “not my business” – and says it is not impossible to find a sustainable way to continue to eat meat.The formula itself is not magical and simple: “eat less meat.” But if most of the inhabitants of the earth are determined to keep eating it three times a day, the thing is impossible. Eating it once a day, “if possible”.While preparing his next novel, life goes vegetarian Safron with his wife and children, which was not difficult to breed without steaks or fish.”In fact, not eating meat makes more sense even in the case of children. If you put in place, have pets, and stuffed animals are the heroes of his stories are also animals … “, he added.