Let Them Eat Dog In The Oven By Jonathan Safran Foer

In the article Let Them Eat Dog: A Modest Proposal for Tossing Fido in the Oven, author Jonathan Safran Foer takes a sardonic approach to dispute whether or not humans should eat animals. If one does not read this article in depth, they would be led to believe that this is an argument about why people do not eat dogs. A deeper look into the essay will verify that the author is saying that eating animals is cruel, therefore we should not eat any animals. The essay begins with Foer explaining that we always see chefs cook the meat of pigs, cows, and lambs regularly but we would absolutely never see a puppy being cooked. Foer then explains that dogs are far less intelligent than pigs yet we still gravitate towards consuming a farm animal rather

In other countries people do not hesitate to eat a dog or a horse however we do not eat those here because we have emotional connections to these animals. In India, for example, they eat their dogs but would never even dream of eating their cows; we are the exact opposite. Foer poses the question: if our neighbors do not own pets, would we even be able to be offended if they ate a dog for dinner? It really makes you think. Next, he asks us, why do we stray away from eating a severely impaired human, but not a pig with potentially more brain capacity than said human? It is such an unthinkable act to eat dogs here in the U.S., but really there is no known downside to eating them. In many countries among various cultures, people eat dog beneficially. We do the same with cows and pigs, so why not eat a dog? Most people argue that it is inhumane to kill a dog just to eat it—but we could argue the same for killing a pig just for the sake of eating it. Most animals are treated inhumanely throughout their lives, and we hardly do anything to protect them while they are alive. But if we hear about a dog getting shot to death, we go haywire. There is a Human Methods of