Martha Stewart To Have A Vegetarian Thanksgiving
Jonathan Safran Foer has been talked about and to in nearly every major media outlet since his book Eating Animals came out. Where Michael Pollan’s Omnivore’s Dilemma tiptoes around the treatment of factory farmed animals, Eating Animals blows the doors wide open on the modern day “farm”.
In an email to Erik Marcus of vegan.com, Jonathan Safran Foer described his more recent adventure with the professional craft-maker and (television) host, Martha Stewart:
I was on Martha Stewart today, along with the director of Food, Inc.
, a veg chef, and a family farmer. I couldn’t possibly have been more impressed by how Martha handled things. Firstly, to devote an entire show to the horrors of the meat industry without feeling a need to offer the industry a voice. Secondly, she came right out and said the meat industry is bad. She didn’t mince her words. She wasn’t cagey or indirect. She spoke plainly and openly about the secrecy, about how they went after Oprah, about how they torture animals (her words), about how she’s going to have a vegetarian Thanksgiving. She told her audience, “You’ll probably agree with just about all of the conclusions in Jonathan’s book.” Frankly, she came off as further down the spectrum than I did.
Jonathan Safran Foer
You know it’s a really great book when it infuriates some and inspires a whole lot more to change.
I think I know what’s on my shopping list this holiday season.
November 22, 2009
Tags: change, farmers, food, food event, heroes, veganism, vegetarianism Posted in: Fun Food Facts, Health
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