Thandie Newton on Eating Animals
On our radar today:
‘Eating Animals, by Jonathan Safran Foer (Hamish Hamilton, £20). I believe that one of the biggest green steps that you can take is to become vegetarian. My children still eat (organic) meat about twice a week, but I’ve personally made the choice to give it up, not only due to animal welfare issues but also because of the contribution that factory farming of animals makes to global warming. Jonathan Safran Foer, who is also a novelist, was already eating a Kosher diet, so he was thinking about food and where it came from before he wrote this extraordinary exposé of the meat industry. The book is a total page-turner and even if you’re not vegetarian it’s a real incentive to eat meat more responsibly’