Jonathan Safran Foer, author of Against Meat, helps us understand what it means to be literally against meat. He helps uncoil what is lost as well as what is gained by doing so.

Fore claims that most occasions just “simply wouldn’t have been the same without those foods – and that is important”. I have to agree with him one hundred percent, he’s right imagine one of the biggest holidays, Thanksgiving, and not having turkey. Turkey is the main food we think of when we think of thanksgiving. If that were taken away from us would create a loss in the American culture. It truly just wouldn’t be the same. However in order to really understand the values of this certain foods and memories that go along with it, you need to lose it. By doing so you gain more ways to appreciate the memories that you had with that food.

 

Foer questions “Why doesn’t a horny person have as strong a claim to raping an animal as a hungry one does to confining, killing and eating it?”  There are different boundaries being crossed here. Killing animals is not the nicest thing on the planet but this is taking it a step too far. This question is truthfully out of line, because why would anyone consider doing that. I think for the most part when were eating meat everyday were not thinking about how the animal had to die, i’m not at least. It’s a thought that sort of flies past our heads. Sure this could be a bad thing. Maybe we don’t understand to the fullest what goes into the preparation of the meat you just picked up at the store. I think we value animals for food. Like we grow up eating meat (most of us at least). So in a way it’s part of us, it’s what we know.