Comments on: Vegetarianism is Illuminated

By: Gerardo Tristan

Gerardo Tristan — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 04:28:53 +0000

I am a big fan of Foer! How can apply for the book give away thing? Great blog too Jonathan!

Keep up the good work and best whises,
Gerardo Tristan.

By: Julie Steinberg

Julie Steinberg — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 05:28:00 +0000

I enjoyed this article as well. Just and FYI – I am in the process of reading his book and writing a review for the Jew and the Carrot – look for more next week. Will also be giving away a free copy of the book.

By: Richard Schwartz

Richard Schwartz — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:25:07 +0000

Great to see this thoughtful post and Michael’s comment on it.

The Jewish community still seems to be generally in denial about the many ethical issues related to our diets — especially that animal-based diets arguably seriously violate Basic Jewish mandates to preserve our health, treat animals compassionately, protect the environment, conserve natural resources and help hungry people.

It is becoming increasingly clear that such diets have devastating effects ob human health and the environment.

For more information, please visit JewishVeg.com/schwartz, where I have over 140 articles and 25 podcasts of talks and interviews, and ASacredDuty.com, to see our acclaimed documentary “A Sacred Duty: Applying Jewish Values to Help Heal the World. Thanks.

Richard Schwartz, president of Jewish Vegetarians of North America

By: Michael Croland

Michael Croland — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 03:17:59 +0000

As the media watchdog DawnWatch put it, Foer “is fast becoming one of the animal advocacy world’s most compelling spokespersons—well worth hearing.” As the November 2 release of his book Eating Animals draws closer, let’s hope he continues to get lots of media exposure. (And I hope The Jew & The Carrot will discuss this book and Foer’s additional media appearances related to this topic.)

Foer appeared on Larry King Live (starting about 18 minutes in: http://tinyurl.com/ylq2tru) last week to talk about the safety and ethics of meat:

“There’s a certain kind of meat, which is produced on factory farms, that is in every single way unconscionable. It’s unconscionable to feed to our children because of the health. It’s unconscionable because it’s the single worst thing that we can do to the environment by a long shot. And it’s unconscionable because of what we’re doing to animals who are raised on factory farms. …

“Upwards of 99 percent of the animals that are raised for meat in this country come from factory farms. So when we’re talking about meat, when we’re talking about the meat that they sell in grocery stores or we’re talking about the meat that we order in restaurants, we are effectively talking about factory farms.”