Argumentative Essay: Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran

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Argumentative Essay: Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran
Foer
Jonathon
Safran
Foer
was influenced by the responsibility of feeding his newborn child to become vegetarian. What makes his book fascinating is the way in which he tells his journey through synthesizing philosophy, literature, science, memoir and his own detective work. Much of the book is an attempt to justify why we eat as we do, but as
Foer
points out isn’t it time to base our eating habits on facts rather than folklore and pop culture, family traditions and national myth. This essay is an attempt to demonstrate that
Foer’s
ideas of making a choice to be a vegetarian is healthier than those who choose not to (41-53).
First the argument that it is ok to eat fish as a vegetarian...

..... populace that by sustaining their life they are taking away the livelihood of many fishermen in the area. The beaver is taking over many wet lands. Deer are multiplying and unless they are hunted they are a danger to man in terms of disease and roadway accidents.
Man is a rightful owner of himself, but because of this self-ownership he has a responsibility to sustain his life and the lives of future generations as long as possible. Man can best sustain his life by managing animal reproduction and by eating healthy. The goal of eating healthy she be one of moderation. Living a life of selected exclusion is not living a balanced life of moderation.
Work Cited
Foer
, Jonathan
Safran
. Eating Animals. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2009.