Jonathan Safran Foer Webinar Reaction Assignment

1) a. The webinar was inspiring, fascinating, persuading, and informing . Foer was informing his audience about his opinion about eating animals. Through this way, he persuades and inspires the audience to eat more vegetables and be on a healthy diet, but not to the point that he turns us into vegetarians.

    b. Presenter: Jonathan Safran Foer.

    c. Title of the video: Jonathan Safran Foer Webinar.

    d. Date accessed: October 28, 2014

    e. The webinar that we watched today was about Foer's thoughts about his book "Eating Animals." As a class, we watched Foer described his opinions about eating animals, and how it is considered as animal cruelty. He also gave some students from other different classes a chance to ask him questions about his books.

f.  (I) "Why is it okay to eat other animals, but dogs?" I found this quote very realistic because most Americans consume a lot of meat. Personally, I think that eating dogs shouldn't be allowed because it's "a man's best friend." At the same time, I also think that it should be allowed because we eat other animals such as cows, pigs, and lambs. Everyone's opinion is different. The usual meats that we eat were raised in a farm for us to eat, while dogs are basically raised to be everyone’s best friend.

    (II) When Foer tells his audience that meat is not a necessity, but its a choice. Most people eat meats because they grew up eating meat. It’s the same as being a vegetarian. If you grew up eating vegetables, you are used to eating vegetables. In short, eating meat depends on how you see meat. Others can view eating meat as animal cruelty, and it can also be viewed as a normal food that you see on your table everyday.

    (III) When he explained us that he's not trying to turn us into vegetarians/vegans. Foer is just trying to point out what the effects are when you eat meats and don't control your diet. He also explained that he made the book "Eating Animals" to open everyone's eyes when it comes to eating our food, and he wants us to be conscious about it.

2) In this presentation, I can't really relate it to my life since I'm not a vegetarian. I like eating meats, but Foer changed the way on how I see meats and vegetables. I don't like eating vegetables, and this discussion just helped me change my views and opinion about eating vegetables. I realized that eating meat is basically animal cruelty, and that's when I realized that eating vegetables are not as bad as eating meats.