Against Meat Foer Summary

The theme, food moralizing, highlights different types of moralizing on food and eating, representing external and internal dimensions of the moral space of food. Jonathan Safran Foer, author of an article called “Against Meat” has a grandmother who grew up during WWII and during this time there was very little food to eat. Food, for her, was “terror, dignity, gratitude, vengeance, joy, humiliation, religion, history, morals, and of course, love” (Foer 450). Food has different meaning to many different people and our perception of food can be influenced by people around us. The meaning of food can depend on what you have gone through in your life. To some people their next meal could be the meal that saves them from starvation. Other people in higher classes do not appreciate food as much because they have the availability of having food every night. We choose to eat or not eat certain foods based on our moral believes and how we were raised.
Fore’s grandma was rummaging through some trash one day and a farmer saw her how bad her condition was. The farmer offered her some pork and “she didn’t eat the pork because it was against her religious morals” (Foer 460-461). This piece of meat could have made it so she was not starving to …show more content…
Healthy food choices are considered as an example of a hidden moralization. Our morals on food choices have labeled food as healthy or unhealthy. The American Paradox is a notably unhealthy population preoccupied with the idea of eating healthy. Many people have different views and meanings of food based on cultural and religion. Mary Maxfeild and Steven Shapin both agree that we cannot make a food choice without getting our morals involved. Making a choice about being vegetarian or being an Omnivore is a moral choice that we make based our values of food. The choice of what we eat highly depends on our morals, cultural, religion, and