Jonathan Safran Foer Against Meat Summary

In his short episode “Against Meat,” published in the New York Times Magazine in June (2009). By using the life story of an unnamed girl, Jonathan Safran Foer guides us through a journey to demonstrate our relationship with the animals of our planet. Many people struggle with uncovering their beliefs, although merely by looking through a person's past, those items can become more evident. Although Foer writing can be interpreted in different ways, his demonstration of repeating habits supports a sinister effect on others. To understand this girl’s path, one must start with her upbringing. She would spend all her weekends at her grandmother’s house, and she learned early that it did not matter the size of the animal, where it lived, where …show more content…
Those synopses taught her about inconsistency in her general habits while showing her that the critical things must be done correctly to prevail during hard times. Ever since the main character was two years old, farm animals were her bedtime stories heroes, as she grew up her relationship with animals only got stronger. She learned how to pet a guinea pig without killing it, her family fostered their cousin's dog for a summer and was told by her father to not hurt the domestic animal. At the age of seven her goldfish past away, her father then flushed the dead fish in front of his disunited grieving daughter only made her relationship with animals stronger. The girl goes through many trigger moments that follow a recurring behavior. The one that started it all was during a dinner with her brother and babysitter. The supervisor shared a fun fact that both kids haven’t realized yet, the baby sitter said: “You know that chicken is chicken, right?” (Foer 2009) Talking about the chicken that was on their plate for dinner that night. Two reactions occurred, one kept eating (the boy), and the other stopped instantly (the girl). Ever since that she works on becoming a vegetarian, but it is hard to give up on something we enjoy the taste of especially …show more content…
Michelle Strong has been a nutritionist for seven years for many kinds of people, and she shares her thoughts about vegetarians and vegans. She explains that these non-meat-eating people do not digest enough protein in their selected grain product, which does not get them in better physical health. She says;” People should choose their proteins from sources that have two or fewer legs. (Strong 2015) Everything we have its own collateral damage. In this case, we see eating increases the greenhouse gas which affects our environment and backfires on the beginning of the chain almost like a cycle. Breaking that cycle will take more effort than Jonathan Safran Foer character in his book. Also, it will implicate many more attempts and