Jonathan Safran Foer Thesis

Jonathan Safran Foer talks about how his view about eating animals changed over time. One simple question took him to an enormous amount of research and the results shocked him. Throughout this essay I will be focusing on three main points that Foer talks thought the book for example, the changes that he did in his life, and how it all begin as well as some of his discoveries in his research. During his childhood, he did not question the food that his family served him, but as he got older he started wondering how did meat end up on his table, and how it was processed. As he learns more about where meat comes from, Foer started backing away from any food that contain meat. As Foer spend time with his grandmother, he loved every meal that his grandmother cook, although most of the time it was chicken with carrots. As Foer explains on “Eating Animals”, “In fact, her chicken and carrots probably was the most delicious thing i've ever eaten”(page,5), but little did he knew how the chicken was processed. At a certain age, we don't quite know how food ends up on our table, and that was Foer situation. Foer loved his …show more content…
In Foer situation eating animals was bad, his conscience was telling him that it was bad so he had to make changes in his life. Foer explains, “In High School I became a vegetarian more times that I can remember”(page,7), and his decision had so many reasons behind it.One of the reason was because he started noticing and finding information about the way animals are being treated. Although, Foer decision was not made from one day to another, there were moments in his life where he consumes meat and he explains it, “ when I went to college, I started eating meat more earnestly”(page,7). He would often stop eating meat, but there were times where he would go back to those habits, and it all depended in certain points of his