Jonathan Safran Foer: I’ve got no beef with his plan to save the planet | Rebecca Nicholson
The US novelist has come up with a way to wean people off their taste for animal products
Jonathan Safran Foer published in 2009. I didn’t read it until 2015, because I had a feeling that it would be persuasive and I would have to stop eating meat, which I found delicious, especially buttery, white-bread ham sandwiches and chicken shish kebabs. It took a long time before I was ready to have my last pepperoni pizza, but in choosing to pick up a book that I knew laid out the horrors of mass meat production, it was clear that I was almost there. And when I’d finished reading it, I simply stopped eating meat. The trade-off no longer seemed worth
