Essay On Eating Animals By Jonathan Saffron Foer

Why people do not eat their pets? Many people will not eat an animal, which they have either named or shared some food with. However, it makes no difference between a person who does not eat dogs and the one who does not eat chicken, cows, or even rabbits. Most people rarely encounter the animals they eat because if they did, then they will see the same characteristics found in this animals. Much of Jonathan Saffron Foer’s teenage and college years were spent oscillating between omnivore and vegetarian. As he grew old, there was an increasing moral dimension of eating animals, which were day by day becoming important to him. He became more interested in the subject and that is when he became convinced that eating animals is not ethical. The author’s arguments are organized in such a way that he first criticizes the habit of eating meat and then gives the importance of eating vegetables. When Foer goes to search the animal farms, what he finds really horrifies him. He finds out that the wild chicken normally lived for approximately 15 to 20 years, but the chicken which are in the concentrated animal feeding operation normally have nasty lives which are mired in their own lewdness. The pigs are even in a worse position because the pregnant sows are enclosed in crates where they often go insane. They chew in their own bars and end up drinking their own urine. He also found out that the cows had the best lives among the farm animals but they are highly slaughtered. He realized that a slaughterhouse worker would end up killing around two thousand and fifty animals within one shift. There even some which were skinned while still alive. He testifies on a point where a worker beat a pig until it died just because it just nu...

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...itically puts up his statements. For example he says that one of the greatest opportunities to live our values or to betray them normally lie in the foods which we put in our plates. That statement though direct is very logical. In his work, Foer is very critical in his arguments but he still has some weaknesses. For example, he does not examine the implications of a vegetarian food system. He is also dismissive of the people who are trying to create a viable alternative to the industrial farming. Foer also shows weakness where he is not just appalled by the factory farming but by the husbandry. Foer feels that the people should stop relying on animals for proteins but instead change to vegetables. These changes are possible as the cereals also contain these proteins. Vegetables are very healthy in our bodies when consumed. He has critically put up arguments.