The Truth About 'Free-Range' Eggs - Jonathan Safran Foer

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/12/01/Jonathan_Safran_Foer_Eating_Animals

Jonathan Safran Foer, author of Eating Animals, claims agribusiness is guilty of "the worst kind of manipulation." He says the lies range from leading people to believe there's a "well funded" anti-meat lobby to applying meaningless "free-range" labels to eggs.

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Written with the verve readers know from his novels, Everything Is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer's first nonfiction book -- Eating Animals -- grew out of his need to justify dietary decisions to his children.

A vegetarian and sometime vegan, Foer carefully examines the stories we tell ourselves about what we eat, considering notions of comfort, tradition, and culture. He blends his memories of the roles food played in his childhood with literary representations of meals; reviews various philosophies of food; and conducts his own investigations into factory farms. - Sixth and I Historic Synagogue

Jonathan Safran Foer is a novelist and short story writer whose works have appeared in the Paris Review, Conjunctions, The New York Times and The New Yorker. He is best known for his semi-autobiographical novel, Everything Is Illuminated.

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[adeadlysniper]

@billybobby800

Not really. A well-balanced vegetarian diet can be extremely healthy, mostly since they lower calories, reduce the risk of osteoperosis and heart disease, as well as cancers associated with red meat.

Saying one shouldn't eat a healthier vegetarian diet because we are "omnivorous" is just plain absurd, I don't think i should go into it.

[someguyneedsanewname]

@StephenKuma I think Mr. Foer is trying to bring attention to "Factory Farming" not necessarily vegetarianism. Factory farming is butchering and eating mass produced, purpose bred livestock. I think we should apply rules to ourselves to limit the damage of our abundant power over other animals and nature; if for no other reason then to protect us from the unintended consequences of our actions.

[Sibrand1189]

Idiots, when people go on about the health benefits of meat they seem to forget about pancreatic cancers, colon and bowel cancers and the level of protein which their body can't process from it in comparison to the level they can process from vegetable and alternative proteins. Also that you can acquire more nutrition from the producers in a food chain to the consumers.

[Bubsy1979]

Found Wally!!

[Pixiebabylove]

Me and my family have raised chickens for years, they used to have an indoor pen and outdoor pen and come the cold times of year wud stop laying, now my dad has decided to let them out of their pens and allow them to roam free around our garden which is huge, and our chickens are 6-7 years old and are healthy and happy and the eggs they produce are devine, we get so many ppl in our village asking for their eggs and i for one will never eat eggs that are brought from the supermarket

[PrimalToad1]

@64allybaby Mass veganism won't happen because human beings are omnivores. The healthiest way to eat is to eat a combination of plants and animals. Quality matters.

I liked what Jonathan had to say in this video but I am not a vegan.

[GoodRedBlackRatio]

@IRaceBarrels In my city, people were trying to make it legal to raise their own chickens in their back yards for food and eggs - unfortunately this didn't pass, but someday maybe people will be more involved with their meat production, and so will not only have healthier, local meats but also have more respect for the animals they eat.

[rhcp4565]

Eat healthy, stay fit, die anyway.

[smurfieboo]

@64allybaby it's still the arse end of the chicken

[64allybaby]

@Tehandpickid bt sum ppl like eating meat and fish plus eggs and chicken r the best quality and mre easily digestable protein and gud for old people with kidney problms and digestive problems to keep up thr protein intake while still eating smaller amounts so mass vegenism wont happn