Jonathan Safran Foer Reflects on 'Eating Animals'
If Foer's book "Eating Animals" didn't make you a vegetarian, the new film adaptation just might.
Jonathan Safran Foer frequently hears about his readers’ eating habits. This is perhaps unusual, considering he is not a physician or a nutritionist; he’s a best-selling novelist, known for, among other books, 2002’s highly inventive Everything Is Illuminated. But the author’s 2009 foray into nonfiction, Eating Animals, has become an influential text for a new generation—probably the most popular consideration of the ethical dimensions of meat eating since 1975’s Animal Liberation by Peter Singer.
Since then, “I don’t give a reading, anywhere, for book I’ve written, that someone doesn’t come up to me and say, ‘I became a vegetarian because I read that book,’” says Foer, now 41.
