"Her history with meat was remarkably similar to mine: there were things she believed while lying in bed at night, and there were choices made at the breakfast table the next morning. There was a gnawing (if only occasional and short-lived) dread that she was participating in something deeply wrong, and there was the acceptance of both the confounding complexity of the issue and the forgivable fallibility of being human. (...)Of course our wedding wasn't vegetarian, because we persuaded ourselves that it was only fair to offer animal protein to our guests (...). And we ate fish on our honeymoon, but we were in Japan, and when in Japan... And back in our new home, we did occasionally eat burgers and chicken soup and smoked salmon and tuna steaks. But only every now and then. Only whenever we felt like it.
And that, I thought, was that. And I thought that was just fine. I assumed we'd maintain a diet of conscientious inconsistency. Why should eating be different from any of the other ethical realms os our lives? We were honest people who occasionally told lies, careful friends who sometimes acted clumsily. We were vegetarians who from time to time ate meat."
Eating animals, Jonathan Safran Foer
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3 comments:
Interesting. But sound very like past tense. What next?
Só o título assusta!... Mas o texto é muito bonito. Quem me dera conseguir ser vegetariana! But I do love meat!!!
Eu também adoro carne, mas depois de ler este livro simplesmente não sou capaz de a voltar a comer sem sentir um enorme peso na consciência - portanto, vegetarianismo. O livro não tem nenhuns factos especialmente novos; o que ele faz (com sucesso) é pôr-nos à frente dos olhos aquelas coisas que já intuíamos mas que escolhíamos ignorar.
Acabou-se a carne, para mim =/
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