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Originally Posted by Ea
Just finished Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer. It's a look at humans' relationship with animals with regards to eating them. I'm a little disappointed with the book. It's personal and subjective, and while he doesn't exactly hide the fact, he doesn't discuss it either - and the book comes across as more factual than it really is - I think that's a problem. Foer has written it with the basic assumption that killing animals for eating is wrong and bad, which I don't agree with (though I do think modern meat production and processing is problematic) and most 'arguments' are more emotional than rational. I don't like that - it makes me feel manipulated. I had expected something more balanced.
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Thanks for that. I'd heard of this book and had considered reading it. I'm not a vegetarian, but I am becoming more and more convinced that I have too much meat and not enough vegetables in my diet, and I'm striving for a better balance. Jeffersonian scholar Clay Jenkinson, who portrays Thomas Jefferson weekly on
The Thomas Jefferson Hour on PBS, has repeated stated that Jefferson felt that a proper diet should contain just enough meat to season the vegetables; and the older I get, the more I see the wisdom in this.
While not a vegetarian, I am appalled at the cruelty of many of the modern factory farming methods routinely used in the meat industry. There are better, more humane methods of raising and slaughtering animals, and, to their credit, some companies use them.