DIANA BARUNGIMAILBOX 039PHILOSOPHY 320CRITICAL REVIEW OF THE BOOK ON EATING ANIMALSIn the book Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer, the author talks not only about vegetarianism but also about his life through this process of writing the book and his travel to various places that helped him in writing this book, such as what happens in the factory or commercial farming. The author also claims that he did not write this book to convert people to vegetarians, but rather to show them where the most consumed food around the world comes from. The author also explains his views in various ways that summarize his work, such as narrative, all or nothing or something else, words/meaning, hiding/searching, influence/wordless, slices of heaven/pieces of shit, I do and finally narration. The question we should ask ourselves is: should we eat meat? In the narration of the first chapter, Foer tells us how he grew up in the Jewish community and also how as a teenager he tried to find his identity. He also describes his grandmother always preparing meals at their house and how they called her the chef ever and he also describes his favorite meal as a child as chicken and carrots. Throughout this whole experience of trying to become a vegetarian when he is alone and not when he is with his friends or in public and when he went to college for fear of being misjudged for his choices. “I can't count the times when, after telling someone I'm a vegetarian, he or she responded by pointing out an inconsistency in my lifestyle or trying to find fault with an argument I'd never made. (I have often had the feeling that my vegetarianism is more important to these people than to me.)” During this period, which as…middle of paper…it is acceptable to eat meat from farms that give the animals living decently but, in the end, it's not for him. Overall reading this book was an experience because I never thought I would feel guilty every time I looked at the piece of meat on my plate. In some ways I absolutely agree with Foer because at the rate at which we treat animals today it is unbearable but in the same sense it is also inevitable because we also have to survive both economically and physically by eating animals. WORK CITY Gruzalski, Bart. “Why it is wrong to eat animals raised and slaughtered for food.” Food for thought: the debate on meat consumption. Amherst: Prometheus Books, 2004. Philosophers' Index. Network. March 21, 2014.Foer, Jonathan Safran. "Eating animals." Journal of Value Inquiry 45.3 (2011): 359-363. Philosopher's Index. Network. March 21. 2014.