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Jonathan Safran Foer Wants to Save the World — Beginning With Breakfast
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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 1478" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://www.eater.com/2019/9/18/20870920/jonathan-safran-foer-we-are-the-weather-interview-meat-vegan-climate-change" target="_blank"><strong>Jonathan Safran Foer Wants to Save the World — Beginning With Breakfast - Eater</strong></a></p><p></p><p><strong>In his new book, “We Are the Weather,” the author suggests fighting climate change by going vegan for two meals a day </strong></p><p></p><p>Someone’s got to do something. <em>We’ve </em>got to do something.”</p><p></p><p>Jonathan Safran Foer found himself repeating this mantra with increasing frequency and intensity over the past few years, but especially this year. Sometimes it would be in response to separated families at the border, other times about gun control, but more often than not, it was about climate change.</p><p></p><p>At a certain point, according to the author and novelist (<em>Everything Is Illuminated</em>, <em>Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close)</em>, it became intolerable. Foer says he knew what he <em>thought </em>he knew about the environmental crisis and what individuals could do about it (plastic straws = bad, recycling = good), but he needed more. So he began researching, and he found a piece of the climate change puzzle that had eluded him, even after publishing his non-fiction book <em>Eating Animals, </em>about animal suffering in a world of industrialized factory farming. When it comes to climate change, animal agriculture — and our diet — is culpable.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 1478, member: 1"] [URL='https://www.eater.com/2019/9/18/20870920/jonathan-safran-foer-we-are-the-weather-interview-meat-vegan-climate-change'][B]Jonathan Safran Foer Wants to Save the World — Beginning With Breakfast - Eater[/B][/URL] [B]In his new book, “We Are the Weather,” the author suggests fighting climate change by going vegan for two meals a day [/B] Someone’s got to do something. [I]We’ve [/I]got to do something.” Jonathan Safran Foer found himself repeating this mantra with increasing frequency and intensity over the past few years, but especially this year. Sometimes it would be in response to separated families at the border, other times about gun control, but more often than not, it was about climate change. At a certain point, according to the author and novelist ([I]Everything Is Illuminated[/I], [I]Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close)[/I], it became intolerable. Foer says he knew what he [I]thought [/I]he knew about the environmental crisis and what individuals could do about it (plastic straws = bad, recycling = good), but he needed more. So he began researching, and he found a piece of the climate change puzzle that had eluded him, even after publishing his non-fiction book [I]Eating Animals, [/I]about animal suffering in a world of industrialized factory farming. When it comes to climate change, animal agriculture — and our diet — is culpable. [/QUOTE]
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