In Jonathan Safran Foer’s Eating Animals, he continues his investigation of the food industry
and tries to promote the idea that having a carnivorous diet might not seem as
great as it does if you are ignorant to what truly happens in the food process.
One chapter focuses on the environment, which clearly supports the idea that
eating animals is not helpful due to the environment. It was quite intriguing
reading this investigation due to the fact that the statistics were indeed
strong and supporting, in addition to the spurts of humor that kept the reader from
dozing off while reading about the food process.
Toward the end of the text, tied together his
investigation and applying it to how it affects the average person. Until this
point in his text, he has explained the issues of the food industry but not it
directly affects those readers who would reply, “who cares?” With the use of a
metaphor throughout an entire chapter, he transforms the dinner table for
eating into a globe for the reader to visualize every person in the world
dining at one location, including the pathways each bit of our food undergoes
until it reaches our plates. With the use of such figurative language, Foer is
successful in achieving his purpose due to the fact that he allows the reader
to accept the investigating and also the reasoning to which it affects them;
therefore, Foer not only addresses a problem in our society, but how it affects
the reader in the long run. In my opinion, Foer successfully achieved his
purpose with the devices of figurative language to tie everything “unclear” to
the reader with mundane terms, in addition to using humor to keep the audience focused
through the explanation of Foer’s investigation.
I would recommend this book to any reader,
especially because this book was written for any reader in particular because the
food process affects us all. I think it was both interesting and quite
interesting because I didn’t realize there were so many issues with the food we
eat regularly.
