Jonathon Safran's Analysis

Jonathon Safran in his article explains his grandma’s life and the impacting situations that have led him to live and raise his children in a vegetarian lifestyle. In his article, Safran explains how one of the most impacting influences was his childhood babysitter who is a vegetarian and how she “didn’t want to hurt anything” and that “chicken is chicken” leading to her not eating meat. Safran’s grandmother was on the run (from the Nazi German’s) in her early days; she would eat the parts of food that others wouldn’t however when a Russian man had offered her a piece of meat she didn’t eat even though it could have saved her life. She wouldn’t eat the meat because it wasn’t Kosher. That seems to have an impact on his decision to be and raise …show more content…
I have a friend who’s a vegetarian and when she does (rarely) get meat she get’s sick; the meat or something even cooked in meat is such a shock to her system it makes her sick. Along with not being able to digest the food she has an ethical problem with the animal cruelty. “When the birds go to slaughter they're supposed to be killed immediately but some survive and they end up being boiled alive.” I asked her what she thought the good and bad sides of being a vegetarian were and she said “A con is definitely not being able to find food sometimes (like in restaurants or something) I guess that counts as a setback, though a lot of places are getting better. A con is also the whole "being super sensitive to ingesting meat accidentally" thing. Pro, I feel better that I'm not contributing to the killing and mistreatment of all the animals, also I feel like I'm at least a little healthier, I never have to worry about red meat.” Her opinions are really strongly about the way the animals are treated before they're killed. “I mean since we can clearly survive without meat, it doesn't seem right to be doing that to animals.” However, a lifelong meat eater becoming a vegetarian can also be a shock to one's digestive system causing one to be extremely gassy while on the vegetarian diet say for a year or