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Article: Self-discovery at dinner
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- November 10, 2009
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Should flesh be food?
In his most recent work, "Eating Animals," novelist Jonathan
Safran Foer takes on the issue that's been nagging at him for most
of his 32 years: meat.
For Foer it started with a baby sitter who politely refused a
chicken dinner. "I don't want to hurt anything," she said. "Chicken
is chicken, you know." The proposition boggled young Jonathan: The
chicken on his plate was the same animal that lived on Old
McDonald's farm and in the pages of his animated storybooks. Eating
Chicken Little seemed less than appetizing.
Foer remained conflicted for most of his life, spending periods
as an omnivore and others as a slightly hypocritical vegetarian who
occasionally indulged in ...