Vegetarian US novelist Jonathan Safran Foer, who set out to research ethics of what we eat to see if he would ever be able to justify it to his son, joins Lateline...
‘…the breadth of this industry, as much as how terrible it is, is what is so grotesque…Does what we get justify the means and what we lose?…People who study fish populations globally have estimated that in the year 2048 there will be no more wild fish and if that number sound precise it’s because it’s based on a very precise calculation…And when I say no wild fish, I don’t mean that your tuna roll is going to cost twice as much or that it’s going to become a tilapia roll instead. I mean there will be no wild fish…I think we need to move away from this binary “You are a vegetarian or not” to “You are somebody who cares or does not”. And for people to care, there are a lot of different paths on can take…’ - read more…
2 years ago • Notes