An Interview with Jonathan Safran Foer
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- Опубликовано: 24 июл 2024
- Sit down with the author of Everything Is Illuminated, which won the National Jewish Book Award for Fiction and The Guardian's First Book Award as he shares his thoughts on the kosher meat industry and vegetarianism. To learn more please visit www.goveg.com/jsfkosher.asp?c=...
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This is great! I can't wait to get your new book! Thanks for your views. You have made this grandmother happy!
Thank you, PETA, for posting Johnathon's thoughts.I thoroughly enjoyed listening to this compassionate man speak.
Wow, people are ignorant and rude on this video. This is an artist, and this is the train of his thoughts that helped create the books that you love to read - accept it! You can't pick and choose your authors and their beliefs, races, personalities, if you want to be open-minded as readers should be, then allow this man his own thoughts and way of life.
Yes!
he's such a daddy
I love his work
@Lirave They do have a nervous system, but the truth is, we don't know if they suffer pain, or if so, how they suffer it. We do know they suffer stress, but they react positively to that stress. If you trim plants, for example,they grow stronger and greener, and thus healthier. We do have a great deal of knowledge on how animals suffer, as they are physically and psychologically very similar to us. They may, in fact, feel more pain than we do.
I'm working out and I am vegan, vegan athletes:
Bill Pearl, Robert Parish, Carl Lewis (yep), Mac danzig (UFC), Marlon Dedakis.
In my personal experience I can tell you my recovery is WAY faster, not
to mention whenever I pause for a few weeks I get back into shape a lot quicker than I use to.
oh and Mike Tyson is vegan these days too.
Could not agree more !!
You can even see plant-based diets be encouraged by governments. In my country at least (Australia), we are being bombarded by government ads saying "eat more fruit and veg" ; "a diet high in vegetable foods may decrease your chances of cancer", "saturated fat and choleterol are not good for us". Not one government ad about eating meat and dairy (although plenty by meat industry)..
I think you'll find that meat industry will follow the same path as the tabacco industry (a once super-power).
Great sharing! ; )
@SkylitDriveFan123 he spent a few years researching just that for his book eating animals. The answer to that question is a long and complex one. I suggest a good starting point is his book.
Mussels, Oysters, and Clams have shown nervous response to induced pains actually.
And by learning just a little bit of the common fishing methods
you understand that the habitats in which they live in is being destroyed by fishing, not to mention they are caught with much bigger, definitely sentient fish (want some Dolphin with that Tuna?)
Oceans are one of the most harmed environment by humans, with 90% of big fish gone in the last 60 years (!!)
@Erin2018 It's "inconsistent logic" only if you consider plants and animals to occupy an equal status. Vegetarians are perfectly well aware that plants are living; the issue is not whether something is living, but whether it is sentient.
And, meat-eaters consume far more plants than vegetarians; it's just that their plants are cycled through animals.
I think he had his Ukraine experience in the '90s when things were different in this part of Europe :)
this guy is my hero
The thing is ...there is so much more too it than cruelty to animals. My uncle was a farmer...and could no longer continue his occupation because he could not compete with the factory farmers. This issue is more than just an animal rights issue...it effects us on so many other levels
@ShaktipatSeer But in India cows are not grown up as they are in the states or sometimes in europe. Check out the vid "from farm to fridge" and look at what happens in diary production. I think "only" about the 75% of milk is producted that way, so there's is the chance not to buy that kind of milk. If you want to drink milk I think you should be quite shure that company or society doesn't produce it that way...
I sort of agree, if you love animals then sure, don't eat meat, but honestly, I would still eat meat if I had a pet cow. But I also think people eat wayy to much meat (and food in general!), so I'm down with vegetarianism. I eat meat sometimes, but I don't find it that important to my diet.
jeez, I wish the audience or the interviewer or whoever would ask different questions!!
there appears to be a trend towards vegetarianism and a trend towards peace - the developed world has moved on from cannibalism and the debate is now vegetarianism - so I anticipate that in the year xxxx most of the developed world will be vegetarians - Jonathan Safran is at the leading edge - I'm a meat eater- I just love the taste - but hell I feel guilty because there is no way I could slaughter a cow or lamb- I tried vegetarianism for a year and failed - I will keep trying
Eating animals is a guiding light.....you made me a vegetarian that cares
I really respect Jonathan Safran Foer and I fell in love with his character, Oskar Schell, but this vegetarian thing is weird. I mean we don't eat meat in order not to harm animals. But what about plants? Don't they suffer? Just because they're silent and they don't move, it doesn't mean that they don't hurt... Unfortunately we cannot live on minerals and light, like plants do.
I disagree. His writing has honestly made my life better - and that's anything but lame to me. I like thoughtful people. And while I do eat meat, i'd certainly go vegetarian for a day if it meant i could hang with this guy. One of my favorite people ever.
Soy, milk, cheese, eggs...all good vegetarian protein :D It must be harder for a vegan to keep a balanced diet...I tried being a vegetarian when I was 13 but the carnivore beast inside won and I got back to eating animals. I own 6 pets (dogs, cats, rodents, birds) love them all and share my food with them, according to their preference :D I eat bread with the bird, fruit with the Guineea pig and meat stuff with the cats and dogs. They don't seem to mind.
I totally agree... I am so disapointed with the author I regret I saw this interview. He should stay with writing ... Is it sposored by PETA ?
Being vegetable is good and all. But the body does need meat.
Well everyone, do realize that this video is psoted by PETA which is an animal rights organization. This video was obviously edited to show only his pro-animal rights statements. If you want to hear about his writing search for a video NOT posted by PETA.
If you value your cows, you surely wouldn't butcher them.
The abolition of slavery was also seen as a "pipe-dream" and "unrealistic". To counter an argument simply because you think it's not worthwile, does not mean it is not plausible.
Actually, the abolishment of meat-eating is a very real possibility. Already I can see an increase in the number of people who no longer want to take part in this barbaric practice.
Soy not good choice. hard to find non-GMO soy. Fermented soy products are the best if you choose to eat soy. (I was vegetarian for 7 years)
@ShaktipatSeer then a good number of animals are just "wrong."
of course it is normal for the majority of people because they are not thinking about it. Just because the majority thinks it's right doesn't make it right. There are a lot of people in certain regions who think that female genital mutilation is ok...but that doesn't make it right!
hes cute :D
I would be a vegetarian, but meat tastes so good!
Is this all he talks about?
Jesus. I loved "Everything is Illuminated," it's one of my favourite books, but there's got to be something more interesting for him to speak of.
@OiWaa Yes, meat tastes good, I liked it when i used to eat it. But for some minutes of pleasure a day you make animals (which have the same nervous system as we have, so physically they suffer the same way as we do) suffer for a whole life. It's not they are killed, it's HOW they are grown up and then killed. If you eat meat, like it or not, you torture for a whole life for some minutes of pleasure. It's you choice, but i think it's not worth living if we torture every single day. Bye!
Unless the cow is delivering you qulaity and quantity of milk.....why else would you 'value them' if it wasn't for their meat value ? What else would you have in mind for these cows ?
Eating meat is not barbaric. Maybe you had a bad experience of some kind that created in you a sensation of revulsion...but for the majority it is quite normal....even a great percentage of those cow-loving hindi folk
I don't understand howyou people can find fault in someone who is proclaiming nothing but hope for humanity and the world in general. Famine in third world countries? THATS PART OF WHAT HE IS SAYING, before you knock vegetarianism, research the pros against the meat industry cons.
Jarrick has transposed the "value" that Jonathan speaks of (a creatures life and ability to have a certain resonance) with the value of economy and a primitive hunger satisfaction. Empty criticisms.
Erin- Your word are unbalanced. It is also important to consider the animals' living conditions as well as what you put in your own body. Get educated and reevaluate.
Don't give humans so much credit. What do you think happened before humans came about? Do you think the world was overrun by all these animals that humans didn't kill? It's only relatively recently that humans have existed in such large numbers.
By the way, humans eating animals may cause their numbers to balloon, however this is not 'thriving' as you describe it. How you can call being raised in cages, fed drugs, and butchered at a young age 'thriving', is beyond me. It;s pure cruelty.
If you wish to prevent harm to plants, then you too should be vegan. All those animals you eat also eat plants. But to make 1 kilogram of meat, the animals have to eat about 8-10 kgs of plants.... so you are contributing to about 10 times as much plant suffering as a vegan would be. I suggest if you're a person of conviction, do something about it! Go veg.