Eatin' Meat!
Good has a nice review of Jonathan Safran Foer's new book Eating Animals: “A straightforward case for vegetarianism is worth writing, but it’s not what I’ve written here.”
I love this concept of planting seeds of thought in non-belligerent ways. My Kitchener-born, Berlin-loving vegan roomie received a care-package from an old room-mate back home with articles from local papers. Included was a piece from the The Toronto Star "Where they grow our junk food", which appeared on the front page of the Sunday edition (Oct 11). I love that is was featured on the front page, and that it has a captivating headline that makes you think. Ja, Just where does our junk food come from? There are lots of things lacking (it is quite short), but as an introduction to getting people to make the link between their health and... their food and... their obesity and... their environment and... their local economy and... the future of farming is commendable. Encouraging people to make healthier choices, for their health, their local growers, and their local economies and environs is an encouraging start. And so I love that a best-selling popular author throws his weight behind an important global issue such as meat eating in a format that allows people to begin thinking without feeling that they are being told to (or being beat over the head).
Oh, you can also find an interesting lecture about humour from Foer at the same link.
The book is rather a perplexing, complicated set of provocations disguised as stories intended to raise more questions than answers.
I love this concept of planting seeds of thought in non-belligerent ways. My Kitchener-born, Berlin-loving vegan roomie received a care-package from an old room-mate back home with articles from local papers. Included was a piece from the The Toronto Star "Where they grow our junk food", which appeared on the front page of the Sunday edition (Oct 11). I love that is was featured on the front page, and that it has a captivating headline that makes you think. Ja, Just where does our junk food come from? There are lots of things lacking (it is quite short), but as an introduction to getting people to make the link between their health and... their food and... their obesity and... their environment and... their local economy and... the future of farming is commendable. Encouraging people to make healthier choices, for their health, their local growers, and their local economies and environs is an encouraging start. And so I love that a best-selling popular author throws his weight behind an important global issue such as meat eating in a format that allows people to begin thinking without feeling that they are being told to (or being beat over the head).
Oh, you can also find an interesting lecture about humour from Foer at the same link.
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