Discussion Questions For Eating Animals By Jonathan Safran Foer

Ani Grigoryan

Question 1.

Everybody has a favorite animal. Whether it's a horse, fish, dog, or pig, how do you feel knowing that hundreds of these animals are being killed everyday for people to eat? Do you feel strongly about it, and want to make a difference, or do you only care about how good the meat tastes? It's hard to give up something you've been eating your whole life, but if you take baby steps to your final conclusion- becoming a vegetarian- it will make a huge difference. Jonathan Safran Foer in his book “Eating Animals” emphasized how other cultures eats dog meat, which is for me is horrible. I can't imagine how people can play with dogs, take them outside to for walk, sleep with them kiss them and after all
I'm saying that from my experiment. When I was small kid, about five or six years old, I liked to catch birds and play with them, because I like them, I had neighbor who also liked to catch birds but for different situations, hi like to fry them and eat. He suggested me to eat with him. I ran away from their house, because it seemed for me as a cannibalism. After few day again I went to his house to play with his kids. They had dinner, and invite me to eat with them. He pouted piece of meat in my plates and said “ This is a chicken meat, eat and you will like it.” I ate and finish it. Chicken really had very good taste, what I never ate anything like that. It was little sweet. After, when I finish my food, he ask me did you know what you just ate? And I'm like ” Yes! That was a baby chicken, and I really like it.” He stopped me and said: “ That was a little bird meat.” I got shocked for myself. I felt nauseous, and starts to cry, because I felt sorry for that bird. I had two birds in the cage in my house. I was feeding them every day, changing papers under them, and always liked to talk to them, like they're my friends. After that situation I ran back home and I let my birds to fly away. I didn't want to heart them