The strength of "Eating Animals" is both the talent of its author (novelist) and its treatment of a subject about which everyone has already more or less his opinion. At no time forbidding -I have eaten in a week-end-, still relevant and intelligent, Jonathan Safran Foer never poured into demagogy or proselytizing and gives us the result of an investigation that lasted three years. He gave the floor to very different people and let us build up our own minds through a rigorous journalistic work. I was sensitive about, I already knew a lot of things and yet I learned a lot more and the reality beyond my comprehension.
JS Foer unveils a totally abject and dehumanizing system, where the animal is a product for the enrichment of unscrupulous people. Some pages are literally unsustainable and I who looked away when I see a bull in an arena, I forced myself to read them, to keep their eyes open on a reality that we can not ignore, because if I n ' never go see a bullfight, the potential consumption of animal products is part of everyday life.
To those who are less sensitive than I to animal suffering, I will simply mention that a health and environmental point of view, factory farming is an aberration and an unprecedented scandal. The animals consumed are genetic monsters incapable of reproducing without any immune system (and thus force-fed drugs just to survive), which never saw the light of day, could not move an inch during their miserable life or even care for their young ... And illusion, soothing to our consciences, a quick and painless death is not resistant to mind-blowing testimonials sadism of slaughterhouse workers. We are not in the field of sentimentality but of humanity's most basic.
Although vegetarian, JS Foer does not reject meat consumption in itself but the least thing is to offer the animal we want to eat a life of freedom and free from suffering. Nature is made up of species that eat other yet, nature is not cruel: the author pointed out quite correctly that cruelty depends on understanding that has and the ability to choose not to exercise ... or choose to ignore it.
This is precisely what we can not do after reading this book: ignore. Whether we choose to remain omnivorous or become vegetarian, it is the personal conscience of each will determine the but at least it will be in full knowledge and we can not say we did not know .
One may be tempted to think that our small choices do not change, and yet ... "every time you make a decision about your food, you do livestock by proxy." Breeders are only produce what we ask ...
"Eating animals" is a book in-dis-pen-sa-ble, which concerns us all and which one of the most beautiful messages is probably this: "Compassion is a muscle that is strengthened by working and exercise Regular of choosing kindness rather than cruelty could only change us. "
