Analysis Of Let Them Eat Dong By Jonathan Safran Foer

In the Story “Let them eat dong: A Modest proposal for tossing Fido in the oven” Jonathan Safran Foer brings to light the idea of how some animals are seen as special and not eaten. Using dogs as the example in showing how a person wouldn’t dare to eat one, but are okay with eat a pig or any other living creature. Making the argument that all living animals have feeling and are special in their own ways, so none of them should be eaten but rather cherished like a dog is. Although the story is unbelievably well written and with great point on culture about food, equality of animals and the…, yet there is only emotional appeal and bias towards his idea of not eating meat. Though out the story Foer makes the point that if we eat some animals why not all. Why do people find some animals life’s to be more important than other? When he states

At first glance and a quick scan the story seems to be a joke that really isn’t serious. Yet to fully understand what he meant the audience would have to reread it and pay close attention to what the author means. One the first page of the story there are three lines that catch people’s attention “The French, who love their dogs, sometimes eat horse…The Spanish, who lover their horses, sometimes eat their cows… Indians, who love their cows, sometimes eat their dogs “(217), they are funny but it’s a light way of hinting towards a bigger topic. It makes a lot of his argument about how different animals are seen and eating around the world pretty much a joke. The way the story is great but having a more normal straight to the point and with the fact the story might have given more information to the audience in how to better understand the issue. Since its written in a form where the reader has to understand that Foer is not series about consuming dog but rather making a point, many people could miss it and get