I read this book during a holiday with friends to Lloret de Mar. I don’t know why this book was never a mandatory book in high school, while instead I did have to read about a person who climbed into a painting and talked to insects (a very well-known Dutch book). It can be a choice of course, but we should make it individually. It’s easy to not think about eating animals in our society and that’s so wrong. Living beings died for me and I was at the same time destroying our planet. When I used to eat them, I never had a second thought about it. Right now, we just do what culture tells us to do. That’s because I feel like you can only make a good choice after you’ve read this book. My opinion is that this book should somehow be mandatory to everyone who eats animals. “Just how destructive does a culinary preference have to be before we decide to eat something else? If contributing to the suffering of billions of animals that live miserable lives and (quite often) die in horrific ways isn’t motivating, what would be? If being the number one contributor to the most serious threat facing the planet (global warming) isn’t enough, what is? And if you are tempted to put off these questions of conscience, to say not now, then when?” Jonathan Safran Foer Mandatory The book really shows you all aspects of eating animals. How we created a culture which normalizes eating animals and why. Safran Foer debunks the insanity of what we’re doing on a daily basis. Why do we eat animals? Would we eat them if we know how they got onto our plates? Why do we eat some animals, but not all? But along with this philosophical approach he also approaches the subject with science, numbers and objectivity. I’d say it’s mostly about ethics and personal believes and values. He’s been struggling with the subject himself and in this book he writes about that journey.

Safran Foer has written it with a very personal approach. But this isn’t a 400-pages rant on why you should eat vegetarian. And that’s why I am sharing it today! Eating AnimalsĮating Animals is a book about, well, eating animals. In fact, I think it’s the best book I’ve read about this subject so far. The ones I read then were extremely boring. Not since those were mandatory in high school. Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer is an elucidation.