Riffing on Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer, Part 2: Does a Hotdog Have Meat in It?

previously: The next day Tess announced that she was a vegetarian. Which brings me to our trip to the San Francisco Exploratorium and the day I almost lied to her. Tess and I had wandered through half of the science exhibits and demonstrations. She was fascinated, which made me happy as I had dreamed of [...]

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April 20, 2010  Tags: , , , , ,   Posted in: Book Riffs  No Comments

Riffing on Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer, Part 1: Little Baby Lamb

At his Vroman’s Bookstore reading, Jonathan Safran Foer posited that children do not come by the eating of meat naturally. That naturally they would have an aversion to it. That we adults must lead children to meat, and ingrain the habit in them – by serving as role model meat eaters, and by serving up [...]

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April 13, 2010  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: Book Riffs  No Comments