Post #3

The two words that stood out the most to me in chapter three of Eating Animals are suffering and destroyed. The reason these two words caught my attention is because it brought out a negative emotion. I have never been vegetarian in my life, and never plan to make a drastic decision to all of a sudden be one anytime soon, however, I do agree with Jonathan Safran Foer in his views to start considering animals while we consistently are killing them for our own personal benefit. In the section called ‘Battery Cage’ at the beginning of the chapter Foer compares us to animals that get treated like crap. He says that if we were animals it would be just like being crammed into an elevator with a bunch of other people our whole life with no repairman coming at all and then the door finally opening just to see our life end right away. In general, this book makes me incredibly sad every chapter to think about what each animal goes through to get to where we consume it everyday. The process is unbelievably brutal. I strongly believe that animals have feelings the same as we do. On page sixty, when Foer talks about how as soon as female birds are mature they are put into complete darkness for a days with very little food. This reminds me of stories you always hear on the news of demented people who kidnap young girls and keep them in basements for years and when/if they get rescued, they sometimes have completely forgotten how to walk and/or talk. It makes me sick to my stomach. In my opinion, this is the same tactic that farmers use. The farmers do this so that the birds can lay two to three times as many eggs as they would if they were in nature. It makes sense production wise, but not the least bit humane.