Today, on October 28th, 2014, our class accessed the Jonathan Safran Foer Webinar. The webinar we experienced could be categorized as informative and persuasive. It can be classified as informative due to the fact that Foer, himself, addressed questions and informed us of the content of his book. Also, persuasive because some of the information he gave, could direct our thinking towards one side or the other. With this being said, the topics discussed were of meat consumption & Farm Forward.
"Children don't make decisions like this when they are young," (Jonathan Safran Foer). A student in our class asked if his children would grow up to be vegetarian. Foer's comment on this was that, children don't make choices like these when they are at a young age. He's the one who cooks and prepares the food his children eat and their meals contain no meat. However, he said that when his children are older and they decide to not be vegetarian or to be vegetarian, he'd fully support their decision. I found this inspirational that he'd give his children the opportunity to make their own choice as they should, regardless of what he believes.
"You can eat meat your whole life without being able to read or watch about the animals affected and the issues that come along with it," (Jonathan Safran Foer). This comment made by Safran Foer himself during the webinar, sparked my interest. Before, I wasn't so conciencious about what I ate and what I consumed into my body. Now, I am more aware. Most people aren't. It's because of their human values or beliefs that they tend to focus more on how things taste or look rather than what it's actually made of.
What I also found interesting from the webinar is that not very much people would become vegetarian in the next years to come. I think with the amount of people that already eat meat as their daily meals, it would be hard for most people to just become vegetarian one day. However, I also believe that, if a person was interested, learned, and conciencious about what they were really eating, and actually wanted to become vegetarian, they could.
As of for me, I do eat meat & do love vegetables and do care for animals, but I don't think I could ever become vegetarian. It's just how I am as a person. I could go days without eating meat and eating pure vegetables, but I wouldn't be able to promise that during those days, I wouldn't crave or want to eat it. Some things just come naturally to a person and I think topics like this just depend on how you are and who you are depending on what you believe in and other aspects.
