"If our next-door neighbor kept a dog in the conditions that well more than 90 percent of pigs are kept in, we would call the police. "This dog opened up the way that I thought about animals."įoer argues that there's no difference between the value of the lives of pets and the lives of the animals that we eat every day.
"She changed things for me," Foer tells Guy Raz. How did Jonathan Safran Foer become a vegetarian activist?įoer, best known for the novels Everything Is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, writes in his new book, Eating Animals, that he struggled with ambivalence over eating meat for most of his life, but never committed until he adopted his dog, George.
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