that time I became a vegetarian

I read Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer for a class last semester and it changed my life. It caused me to reevaluate meat consumption, our entire food industry, and the way that Americans think about food. Foer writes this book as he experiences the food industry, with a first-hand account of the exploration he did after becoming a father. 
He does not write this book to turn his readers into vegetarians. Instead, he colorfully describes the impacts of our food industry and how harmful it truly is. I am not the only person that has become a veg after reading this book. 
I do not want to give too much away but I highly suggest reading this book. I have developed a passion for wanting to change how we process and experience food as a country and this book is a great start toward developing knowledge about all of this. 
This is an excerpt taken from the book: 
Before visiting any farms, I spent more than a year wading through literature about eating animals: histories of agriculture, industry and United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) materials, activist pamphlets, relevant philosophical works, and the numerous existing books about food that touch on the subject of meat. I frequently found myself confused. Sometimes my disorientation was the result of the slipperiness of terms like suffering, joy, and cruelty . Sometimes it seemed to be a deliberate effect. Language is never fully trustworthy, but when it comes to eating animals, words are as often used to misdirect and camouflage as they are to communicate. Some words, like veal, help us forget what we are actually talking about. Some, like free-range, can mislead those whose consciences seek clarification. Some, like happy, mean the opposite of what they would seem. And some, like natural, mean next to nothing.


If you would like more information please visit the website: Eating Animals