A review by lewis_fishman
Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer

5.0

As someone's been a vegetarian for over two years, and a vegan for close to two, this book didn't have many surprises for me, but here I am, still so incredibly angry. The case for the continual march towards anthropogenic climate catastrophe is borne on the backs of agribusiness, both agriculture and aquaculture, and here we are, continuing to not rectify our mistakes. If eating animal products is the single biggest thing that people can do in order to combat climate change, and animal agribusiness is the largest contributor to climate change, the option seems fairly sensible to take. I know, theres 100 companies (or whatever the constant instragram story performativeness that gets shared says), that are directly responsible for the state of the world, but that doesn't give you any and all excuses to sit back and not do anything. We are approaching the end times, and either you can act and try and mitigate something, or you will die. There is no more black and white.