Eating Animals

Nice cover design, too.

Food for thought… I saw Jonathan Safran Foer on Ellen yesterday; I caught the end of his interview and was suddenly feeling afraid… of everything. Then I woke up this morning and my good friend sent me this link to an article he wrote for the New York Times. Needless to say, I’m interested and know I have to read this book. I am a meat-eater, always have been. But perhaps that is simply because it’s easier to be the way you’ve always been. Or as Jonathan puts it, “To give up the taste of sushi, turkey or chicken is a loss that extends beyond giving up a pleasurable eating experience. Changing what we eat and letting tastes fade from memory create a kind of cultural loss, a forgetting.”

Either way, if you’d rather avoid the book, at least read the article. This is exactly what PoeticFood is about: the meaningful stories food creates in our lives. To eat meat or not to eat meat, that is a question and ultimately a story, for you to answer and write for yourself.