"The point of a story can penetrate far deeper than the point of any bullet."

~ Lawrence Nault - The Mountain Hermit

Monday, March 26, 2012

Eating animals

Jonathan Safran Foer's novel Eating Animals can raise many different opinions depending the reader's own attidute. My brother, who's devoted carnivore felt irritation mixed with amusement after he saw the title of the book. My sister instead (who mostly shares my opinions) was slightly interested in it and would have probably stolen it from my bookshelf, if I hadn't been careful.
   For my point of view Eating Animals was a good book, which supported my intent to become a vegetarian. Like the title tells, the novel is about eating animals. The main aspect is in faults of factory farming. Sometimes descriptions about breeding and slaugthering animals made me feel sick and got my to think next time when I eat meat.
   Althought Foer himself is vegan, he say he can understand those who eat meat. In the novel this is same time a credit and frailty: on the one hand Foer gives reader the freedom of choice, but on the other hand the book seems sometimes to drift in abstract level without making a clear point. But I think Foer's point was only to make people think about what they're eating.

Mark: 7+

Monday, March 12, 2012

Kony 2012

If you have some time, please, watch this video. You don't have to do anything, but you can be one of them, who make the difference.