Sit down with the author of Everything Is Illuminated, which won the National Jewish Book Award for Fiction and The Guardian’s First Book Award as he shares his thoughts on the kosher meat industry and vegetarianism. To learn more please visit http://www.goveg.com/jsfkosher.asp?c=tube
Duration : 0:9:3
If we didn’t eat …
If we didn’t eat animals, they would become over populated. In fact, if we raised endangered species for consumption, they would thrive.
you’re so cool man. …
you’re so cool man. let us support vegetarianism. stop killing animals for food. Animals have lives
i could not agree …
i could not agree more
dude, you just …
dude, you just corrected one of the most trivial and entirely meaningless mistakes ever. so what does that say about your life?
You should listen …
You should listen to this very intelligent young man.
He is the most promising novelist for decades
dude…you spelled …
dude…you spelled the word ‘fucking’ wrong. so what does that say about your life???
shalom!
shalom!
Where did you get …
Where did you get that idea?
Besides being a vegetable? That’d be really hard… lol.
He’s cute
He’s cute
you suck at ign …
you suck at ign life
Well everyone, do …
Well everyone, do realize that this video is psoted by PETA which is an animal rights organization. This video was obviously edited to show only his pro-animal rights statements. If you want to hear about his writing search for a video NOT posted by PETA.
Probably because …
Probably because plants can’t sense pain since they do not have a nervous system.
I really respect …
I really respect Jonathan Safran Foer and I fell in love with his character, Oskar Schell, but this vegetarian thing is weird. I mean we don’t eat meat in order not to harm animals. But what about plants? Don’t they suffer? Just because they’re silent and they don’t move, it doesn’t mean that they don’t hurt… Unfortunately we cannot live on minerals and light, like plants do.
Being vegetable is …
Being vegetable is good and all. But the body does need meat.
JSF, sexy pants.
JSF, sexy pants.
Im a vegeterian …
Im a vegeterian myself, but the point of this interveiw should have surely been the book?!! Mind you we can’t be sure weather it’s his fault of the interveiwers.
Me too. His books …
Me too. His books are awesome, and I don’t want to watch the rest of this interview! I thought this would be about his books.
There are no actual …
There are no actual damaging environmental ramifications from eating meat that aren’t also evident from vegetarianism. Imagine converting all the existing wildlife habitat to vast croplands necessary to support a world converted 100% to veganism. There goes most of the habitat for the wildlife! Simple ecology. Rigid Veganism is a sham, and is no more “correct” than a mixed (natural) diet that we evolved to digest. I’ll be the thorn in his idea of 100% vegans within 20 yrs.
Hearing him speak …
Hearing him speak and what his books are about make me hope that if I ever read them I will hate them. Such a twerpy little pretentious douche. And a vegetarian. I’ve seen one half decent interview of him. Doesn’t stand up to the greatness of great authors, especially older authors. But we’ve got our great living (or VERY recently living) ones: Foster Wallace, Franzen, Eugenedes, McCarthy. And our older great ones, Pynchon, Kosinski, Fitzgerald.
Jonathan Safran …
Jonathan Safran Foer is one of my all-time favorite authors, and this just made me love him even more.
thank goodness he …
thank goodness he was asked about his books.
jeez, I wish the …
jeez, I wish the audience or the interviewer or whoever would ask different questions!!
I sort of agree, if …
I sort of agree, if you love animals then sure, don’t eat meat, but honestly, I would still eat meat if I had a pet cow. But I also think people eat wayy to much meat (and food in general!), so I’m down with vegetarianism. I eat meat sometimes, but I don’t find it that important to my diet.
I disagree. His …
I disagree. His writing has honestly made my life better – and that’s anything but lame to me. I like thoughtful people. And while I do eat meat, i’d certainly go vegetarian for a day if it meant i could hang with this guy. One of my favorite people ever.
This guy is as lame …
This guy is as lame as they get..