Julia Powell “Julie & Julia” On Irritating Jonathan Safran Foer
Written by Vegetarian Star on December 7th, 2009 in Authors, Food & Drink.
Julia Child rarely showed any love for vegetarians.
And the author of her life story, Julia Powell, admits she wasn’t keen on eating less meat until she read a book by one irritating vegetarian author named Jonathan Safran Foer.
“Jonathan Safran Foer irritates the shit out of me, but he’s right,” Powell said.
“He and I are really together in that what we’re trying to come to a decision about what we feel like we can eat. There’s got to be some middle ground between the industrial farming system and all the ways that’s broken and the various privileged ways people like me [respond].”
Powell now calls herself a “restaurant vegetarian”–meaning she will only eat meat when she knows where it’s coming from.
Working in a butcher shop allowed Powell to witness the gory details of “gruesomely grinning, fleshy half skulls, eyes still in their sockets” before meat gets to the plate.
“If you make a relationship with the people you’re getting your food from, you’re going to feel so much better, I promise,” said the author of Julie & Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen.
Or lose your lunch.
Like Paul McCartney said, “If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be vegetarian.”
via thedailybeast.com via treehugger.com
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