Animals Eating Jonathan Safran Foer

This sounds like a cop-out to me (from Amazon):

"Jonathan Safran Foer spent much of his teenage and college years oscillating between omnivore and vegetarian. But on the brink of fatherhood-facing the prospect of having to make dietary choices on a child's behalf-his casual questioning took on an urgency. His quest for answers ultimately required him to visit factory farms in the middle of the night, dissect the emotional ingredients of meals from his childhood, and probe some of his most primal instincts about right and wrong.

Brilliantly synthesizing philosophy, literature, science, memoir and his own detective work, Eating Animals explores the many fictions we use to justify our eating habits-from folklore to pop culture to family traditions and national myth-and how such tales can lull us into a brutal forgetting. Marked by Foer's profound moral ferocity and unvarying generosity, as well as the vibrant style and creativity that made his previous books, Everything is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, widely loved, Eating Animals is a celebration and a reckoning, a story about the stories we've told-and the stories we now need to tell."

JSF has obviously suffered a lot by "oscillating between omnivore and vegetarian." A lot. So much that I'm sure millions of people are dying to know the reasoning behind his dietary habits and ethical stances. And now, as a father, he is being forced to decide what to feed his child, and we should care. Go read Consider the Lobster. I honestly respect vegans and vegetarians, wish I had the willpower necessary to commit to something that strenuous myself, and think that vegetarianism will eventually become a worldwide phenomenon due to economic reasons and the amount of water necessary to grow crops to feed livestock. On the other hand, meat consumption is an ancient and tasty practice, but that is beside the point. If you haven't been persuaded by arguments for or against vegetarianism thus far, maybe you are 15 years old and are therefore a large proportion of JSF's target demographic. Happy reading.