Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer-- Chapters 1&2 Review

Eating Animals was written by Jonathan Safran Foer. Just by reading the title you may think the book deals with he "horrors" or "stigmas" about well, eating animals; ironically this isn't the main focus of the book. In the first chapter, Foer mostly reminisces on his early years and his battles with vegetarianism while also retelling stories of his grandmother and the differences in food's role in his life and how it was in her life. In chapter two, Foer begins to actually talk more about animals. By using dogs as an example he asks his readers how humans, specifically Americans, justify eating certain animals and not others. I found these two chapters very interesting and have actually asked these questions myself in the past. Why is it so acceptable to eat certain animals and not others? How is it that we can basically torture the animals we do eat but be sent to jail for "abusing" a dog or a cat? What are the parameters that set the animals we love apart from the animals that we eat?