The Most Important Conversation in Our Lifetimes Might Just Begin with Jonathan Safran Foer's Latest Book
Over the next weeks Huffington Post will feature a diverse range of responses to Jonathan Safran Foer's controversial new work of non-fiction, Eating Animals. But these aren't your usual book reviews. They are the start of a conversation that some powerful people in agribusiness would rather we not have.
Imagine that tomorrow scientists report that a single action, something that most of us do every day, was discovered to be the leading human cause of global warming. And one of the top two or three causes of every other major environmental problem at the local and global level. Even more, this same action appears to have been a decisive factor in the development of the H1N1 "swine flu" and continues to stimulate the growth of pathogens resistant to antimicrobial drugs. Imagine further that this action causes billions of farmed animals annually to suffer in ways that virtually all Americans say should be illegal. And, finally, that this action has lead to the decimation of American farm communities from North Carolina to central California.
This is real. It is happening. And all these facts about the effects of eating factory farmed animals are thoroughly documented in Foer's new book.
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