Battle between eating meat and going vegetarian

27 February 2010

Jonathan Safran Foer’s battle between eating meat and going vegetarian is one faced by millions of people. It is also a moral issue with which some of the greatest thinkers in history have grappled. We crave for peace, yet deny it to the living beings we share this planet with. We have forgotten that compassion is the distinguishing mark of a civilisation, and all our otherwise great achievements are clouded by the suffering of billions of animals. The environmental and health issues related with meat eating are a clear indicator that the human race has to revert to a plant based diet if it is to leave this planet in a good enough shape for future generations,

Nitin Mehta
Croydon