Summary Of Against Meat By Jonathan Safran Foer

The various topics studied in this course have been enlightening and eye opening. With so many different stances and points of view, all of the reading contributed to their topic in a positive way, but some were better than others. For example, one reading that seemed to fall short in the obesity topic, in my own opinion, was “Against Meat” by Jonathan Safran Foer, author of the best-selling novels “Everything Is Illuminated” in 2002 and “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close” in 2005. This essay should be removed and replaced with A TED talk featuring Jamie Oliver (built a worldwide media conglomerate of TV shows, books, cookware and magazines, based on a formula of simple, unpretentious food that invites everyone to get in the kitchen) discussing the
Jamie Oliver’s TED talk is more relevant to the obesity epidemic than Jonathan Safran Foer’s “Against Meat”.
Foer’s essay talks about his path to vegetarianism and the influences behind it. This essay is a great explanation of how hard it can be to change a life style and stick with it. He notes how he was back and forth with his vegetarianism all throughout his life until having kids changed his and his wives life style for good. They are both vegetarians and raise their kids that way. They also are very much aware of the fact that their kids may try meat and other products like meat, and are contempt with that life style choice they make for themselves. Showing us how difficult change can be and how much healthier some foods are than other is good to have included with the collection of readings for the obesity epidemic. Conversely, it seems as if we weren’t hitting an important topic in the obesity epidemic, children. Childhood obesity is a huge deal and Jamie Oliver has a plan on how to fix it. He starts by strongly informing us of the issues, such as obesity costing us ten percent in healthcare and 150 billion dollars a year, which is set to double in ten years. In addition, how