Jonathan Safran Foer Webinar Reaction Assignmet

1. The webinar and the excerpt both are informative, persuasive, and inspiring. On October 28-29, 2014, the Jonathan Safran Foer Webinar was the presented by Jonathan Safran Foer himself.

50 Word Summary

The main content of the webinar was about Jonathan Safran Foer's novel, Eating Animals, and his excerpt, A Case of Eating Dogs. The whole topic was to get into deeper meaning in what food we eat and get us to think of the mockery of the food we eat everyday. We discussed the benefits and disadvantages of being a vegetarian with Safran Foer. For example, he talked something about a vegetarian's diet may be more or less expensive to the majority of an American diet. In A Case for Eating Dogs it gave deep mockery of dogs and livestock we eat. This excerpt also gave dark humor of how much people(especially in the United States) actually do not pay attention of what kind of nourishment enter their body. My overall reaction was pure fascination because it got me thinking and questioning thoroughly.

Description of three stand-out moments

• One major moment throughout the whole two day discussion of the novel was the excerpt A Case of Eating. I found this somewhat inspiring and important. Safran Foer gave an excellent example of comparing dogs to the livestock we eat. I found it important because it revealed how people do not and would not pay attention of the food they eat. Also, he gave a strong case to question oneself of what is wrong and what is right. This inspired me to learn much more what I eat.
• Another moment I thought stood out was the dark humor Safran Foer used in the excerpt. It is important for him to use dark humor in order t get his point out towards the reader. I actually liked how emphasized it because it presented humorously how dogs is just the same meat as any other meat we eat, It also showed a darker way of how people will not notice any difference. I like the last two paragraphs of the excerpt especially. It made me think more into deeper meaning than before.
• A lot has fascinated and stood out to me this whole time. However, in the webinar Safran Foer said his goal is not to turn us to vegetarians but to inform us how our food is processed. This stood out the most because I expected him to give us this long lecture of why we should go vegetarian. All he cared about was to give us a deeper background of how our food is processed and let us consider it.

2. How this presentation can relate to your life?

This whole webinar and excerpt can relate a lot to my life by letting me know how my food is processed and consider food into more depths. I mean food is my everyday life because food is life. By getting deeper knowledge of what I'm eating inspires me to question food more and search more information. This two day experience moved me to actually read the novel first hand. I agree to pretty much everything but I would just like to point out that erasing meat from your daily life will be a hard process. There are a lot of people with different circumstances. Some may be easy to adapt to but others such as myself will be very hard. I see this as something learn lots from but getting rid of something may be impossible. Overall it was a new experience to learn from and I enjoyed every single bit.