Factory Farming: Inefficient and Inhumane? - Jonathan Safran Foer

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

Eating Animals author Jonathan Safran Foer criticizes factory farming as inhumane and inefficient. "Nothing would be better for world hunger than if we stopped eating meat," he says. "We are now feeding...our farmed animals foods that humans eat, corn and soy."

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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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[beaelliott]

@MrBeefEaters The "products" are safe? I follow the recalls... I'm very aware too of the anitbiotics in meat. It's obvious our health is declining in western cultures.

Furthermore and most importantly - It is not sustainable. It takes 6 times the grain to fatten animals than what could be fed to humans directly.

[beaelliott]

@MrBeefEaters Animal ag is contaminating "precious vegetables". The run off of manure from factory farms is how spinach, tomatoes, etc. get ecoli --- Salmonella and Listeria also do not originate from plants - But from the gut of animals.

[beaelliott]

@MrBeefEaters It is for the very reason of increasing population that we must begin adapting to a plant based diet. Fattening animals for consumption is terribly wasteful on resources. Not to mention the antibiotic resistance animal ag creates.

A vegan can live on less than an acre of land while it takes more than 3 to support a meat diet. It is animal agriculture that will starve us - poison us - or drug us to death... Not a sustainable plant based diet.

[beaelliott]

@MrBeefEaters Hi. I researched SuperAnimalDrummer's information and couldn't find anything amiss. We do feed the vast majority of corn/soy to nonhumans. The meat/dairy/egg industries are controlled by 3 major corporations. By fattening animals this does deny about a billion humans access to food. There are terrible (meat related) illnesses and diseases.

What other side is there to look at?

[MrBeefEaters]

@SuperAnimalDrummer I am sorry that you are so blind and ignorant, I dont think the animal industry will have to worry about you much longer though, I am sure the group youre part of will drink the coolade soon and youll be taken to your ship on the dark side of the moon. Dont forget your tennis shoes and track suit.

[MrBeefEaters]

@SuperAnimalDrummer products they produce are safe. If you think I am lieing, you yourself said that its all about making money, well if you want to dumb it down to just that then fine. It is not all about money but if it was why would an industry put out a product that was unsafe? I mean if I sold something and it was killing people, I doubt they would buy it, which inturn would lose me money. So by that fact alone, logic dictates that the products are safe.

[MrBeefEaters]

@SuperAnimalDrummer that you dont even look at or care about the other side of things. Meat that farms produce doesnt kill people, you have no idea what youre talking about. It doesnt make people sick or kill them and if you think of a few cases where it has I can show you a few more where your precious vegetables have made people sick and killed them to. Nothing is perfect but the fact of the matter is is the animal industry puts a lot of money into making sure the

[MrBeefEaters]

@SuperAnimalDrummer before you spew shit out. I also never once brought up naturalism so you saying that makes you in turn look stupid. I am sure that lions would pen zebras up and eat them at there leasure they just dont have the ability. We, humans, which are ANIMALS, do. What will you eat when the population of the world takes up all the good farm ground? I hope you can live on sticks and rocks. You animal rights people are so blinded by your hate for animal producers

[MrBeefEaters]

@SuperAnimalDrummer Ok...youre just as dumb as I suspected. "Don't be an asshole" Im sorry, you were the asshole first. And calling me a dork, nice, are you 12? You probably are arent you. Just because you "observe" nature and "love" nature that doesnt mean you know anything about anything. Your "facts" that you present, are way off. You really need to do research rather than just listen to hippies or other animal rights people like yourself. Look at the other side of things

[SuperAnimalDrummer]

@MrBeefEaters if feeding people was really the concern, people would be healthy, not dying of heart disease, cancer, and diabetes. You must be a shill for the industry. shame on you.