John Foer's Article On The Consumption Of Food

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I’ve always struggled with eating meat because of the gruesome details my brothers would choose to divulge during a meat-filled dinner. To combat this, I would convince myself that meat was made up of sugar, flour, water, and perhaps a little food coloring. To this day, as long as I don’t think about the origins of my food, I’m typically fine eating it. This ongoing struggle with food from animals was aggravated by reading Foer’s article on the consumption of animals.
Starting this summer, I’m going into culinary arts, which made this article especially thought-provoking. The cruel treatment of animals was discussed, along with the conditions that those who live near the factory are forced to endure. Reading these descriptions made me wonder …show more content…

Accepting this and the sheer facts of it will be necessary if I want to become a pastry chef. However, because I want to be a pastry chef, I’ll likely work with less meat in the long-run compared to other chefs. It was depressing to read about how our food habits are ruining the ecosystem. The most depressing part of this was realizing that my job wouldn’t fall under the category of “making the world a better place” like doctors or humanitarian workers. Rather, I’ll be the one contributing to the downward spiral of our planet and its resources. Perhaps I will be able to instigate changes in the system to create a more sustainable approach to food, but considering how long food has been around and the well-established traditions of cooking, I doubt that I would end up coming to any sort of beneficial …show more content…

The most interesting part about this is that if humans were being mistreated in the same way the animals are, then there would be a major outcry, huge riots, and changes would be made, but somehow animal rights don’t cover torture. It really tears me in two trying to figure out how to solve the problem with food. I wish I could figure out how to source all my food from humane, real farms (not the fake factory ones), but honestly, I don’t think it would be entirely feasible. Hardly anyone knows where their food actually comes from unless they do research into each ingredient, so it’d be hard to find good sources for all the food I eat normally. The best solution would be to shut down the disrespectful factories through consumer’s combined

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