Week 7

I think throughout the novel, Eating Animals, there have been many times I felt an emotional reaction to what I was reading. However, in chapter 6, I felt that once Safran Foer states his official opinion where he says he will not eat meat, I think that gives us a clearer understanding as to what he is trying to get across with this book. Even though he states that he is not trying to convince anyone to go vegetarian, and that it is someone’s own personal choice, it is hard not to feel like he is judging people who choose to eat meat. Up until this point, the only other time I had quite an emotional reaction was when he was describing what is done to the chickens in factory farms, just because I didn’t know quite to what extent the awful conditions were. It feels as though the moment in chapter 6 where Safran Foer gives his official beliefs on eating meat was the moment that the book had been leading up to this whole time. It feels this way because we had always heard about his internal struggle to decide what was the best thing to do in terms of eating meat or not.