Natalie Portman Reviews Eating Animals

October 27, 2009

The Huffington Post has published a Natalie Portman review of Jonathan Safran Foer’s Eating Animals. The lead sentence:

Jonathan Safran Foer’s book Eating Animals changed me from a twenty-year vegetarian to a vegan activist.

Wow. I think she liked it. Her review contains this great paragraph:

I remember in college, a professor asked our class to consider what our grandchildren would look back on as being backward behavior or thinking in our generation, the way we are shocked by the kind of misogyny, racism, and sexism we know was commonplace in our grandparents’ world. He urged us to use this principle to examine the behaviors in our lives and our societies that we should be a part of changing. Factory farming of animals will be one of the things we look back on as a relic of a less-evolved age.

There’s no doubt in my mind that Eating Animals will sell in excess of 100,000 copies. But what’s really needed is for Eating Animals to become the next decade’s Omnivore’s Dilemma—the default book that everyone reads about food.

If that happens, it’ll be game over for factory farming. It falls on our shoulders to try to make this happen. So the question is: what can you do to get Eating Animals into many more hands? (Via Crossfield.) Link.


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