A Means to an End

In Reading Jonathan Safran Foer "Eating Animals" and in a chapter that in a way look similar to a dictionary.He discusses terms that seem to have no significances or importance to use but as you explore and dig deeper into the word and definition has a relevant essence to our lives and the things we consume. Neglect, a term I have chosen to sum up into one word about this book.

Eating Animals

Jonathan Saefan Foer’s book “Eating Animals" discusses major topics above and beyond the concept of what we consume, but about ourselves as individuals. We neglect to know what’s going on, not only with the food we consume, but our world as we know it. Based on ideas  from "Eating Animals", I believe that as individuals we need to take a stand on not only the food choices that the corporation regulate but information that is being hidden by corporations that is not only hazards to one’s health but to everyone’s well being.                                   

The government and Corporations hides behind headlines in articles on new strains of diseases that are connected strangely to the farm animals we eat and domesticate. Scientist has researched for years about the foods we eat, and the genetic connections we have with them. However, these scientists never reveal to the public that the animals we consume are connected to the diseases we have today. In 1918, an influenza pandemic known as the Spanish flu claimed the lives of over twenty- four million in twenty- four weeks globally. Every twenty- seven years there has been a "population control" pandemic, which wipes out millions, keeping the population in stable conduction. However, there has not been a pandemic for the past forty years and scientists believe that we are overdue for one.

In Saefan Foer’s travel to Brevig, to uncover the scientific cause of the Spanish flu, he states “[Johan] Hultin eventually uncovered the remains of a woman among the frozen dead of 1918 and named her Lucy. He cut out Lucy’s lungs and mailed them Taubenberger, who took samples from the tissue and found evidence of something quite remarkable. The results, published in 2005, show that the source of the 1918 pandemic was avian influenza –bird flu…”(Foer,126).