People (Not) Eating Tasty Animals

Halloween Jack — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:29:02 -0800

Natalie Portman has been a vegetarian for twenty years, but was recently inspired to become a vegan by Jonathan Safran Foer's first nonfiction book, Eating Animals. Portman wrote an essay for the Huffington Post in which she compares the book favorably to Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma (previously on the blue), and makes this specific criticism of the latter book:

But he reminds us that being a man, and a human, takes more thought than just "This is tasty, and that's why I do it." He posits that consideration, as promoted by Michael Pollan in The Omnivore's Dilemma, which has more to do with being polite to your tablemates than sticking to your own ideals, would be absurd if applied to any other belief (e.g., I don't believe in rape, but if it's what it takes to please my dinner hosts, then so be it).

Salon's Broadsheet blog takes umbrage.

I think I like Natalie Portman more now.

badego — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:12:46 -0800

Natalie Portman releases the fire of pain inside her body and immolates herself. Neat! (YT)

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People (Not) Eating Tasty Animals

I think I like Natalie Portman more now.