Vegetarianism In Jonathon Safran Foer's Against Meat

The ideal of being vegetarian has always existed. From the minute as a young child when we find out that the chicken we eat is actually the animal chicken, something registers in our minds, I want to be vegetarian. While most people don’t actually stick with it, there are the people who do with one of them being Jonathon Safran Foer. In his article, “Against Meat”, he explains his lifetime story of his dedication to vegetarianism and the events that took place to help him genuinely become a vegetarian. He begins with stories from when he was a child and first found out about where meat came from and how he struggled between being vegetarian and not being one throughout multiple years until he got older and changes in his life made him decide …show more content…
Ketler argues that we need think about how much these animals need to eat and drink. She writes, “Feeding 10 Billion animals in the US alone is considerably more than feeding the entire planet.” In her article, Ketler is suggesting that we completely edge eating meat out of our lives. Ketler connects to “Against Meat” because she has research from multiple sources that shows that we spend more effort on the animals when we could just cut them out entirely from our diets. More specifically, Ketler asserts that there have been many studies that suggest eating meat -especially factory farmed meat, is not even good for us and we could have a much longer, happier, healthier life by cutting out meat while Foer’s article suggest factory farming is the harming the environment. Therefore, Ketler extends Foer’s ideal that factory farming is not only a problem for the environment but ourselves as well since eating factory farmed is the single worst thing that humans do to the environment (Foer …show more content…
With outside research expanding on Foer’s article it revealed that vegetarianism has benefits to not only ourselves but our environment as well. After finding research that helped expand on Foer’s ideal, or even complicating it, there is still the blatant point that the vegetarian lifestyle is a very credible one even though it may seem as if there are less health benefits or it’s hurting the environment. Neither of these claims are true proving that the choice to be vegetarian is one’s own and that it does hold massive health benefits and in the end is ultimately helping the