Yes!

true true true

I love his books. I was bored half way through. Why would he not be involved in the making of his book into a movie???

Is this all he talks about?

Jesus. I loved “Everything is Illuminated,” it’s one of my favourite books, but there’s got to be something more interesting for him to speak of.

for an educated author she should realize its not “The Ukraine”

In fact there’s a movie with the same title as the book.

I totally agree… I am so disapointed with the author I regret I saw this interview. He should stay with writing … Is it sposored by PETA ?

This guy is as lame as they get..

I disagree. His writing has honestly made my life better – and that’s anything but lame to me. I like thoughtful people. And while I do eat meat, i’d certainly go vegetarian for a day if it meant i could hang with this guy. One of my favorite people ever.

I sort of agree, if you love animals then sure, don’t eat meat, but honestly, I would still eat meat if I had a pet cow. But I also think people eat wayy to much meat (and food in general!), so I’m down with vegetarianism. I eat meat sometimes, but I don’t find it that important to my diet.

jeez, I wish the audience or the interviewer or whoever would ask different questions!!

thank goodness he was asked about his books.

Jonathan Safran Foer is one of my all-time favorite authors, and this just made me love him even more.

Hearing him speak and what his books are about make me hope that if I ever read them I will hate them. Such a twerpy little pretentious douche. And a vegetarian. I’ve seen one half decent interview of him. Doesn’t stand up to the greatness of great authors, especially older authors. But we’ve got our great living (or VERY recently living) ones: Foster Wallace, Franzen, Eugenedes, McCarthy. And our older great ones, Pynchon, Kosinski, Fitzgerald.

There are no actual damaging environmental ramifications from eating meat that aren’t also evident from vegetarianism. Imagine converting all the existing wildlife habitat to vast croplands necessary to support a world converted 100% to veganism. There goes most of the habitat for the wildlife! Simple ecology. Rigid Veganism is a sham, and is no more “correct” than a mixed (natural) diet that we evolved to digest. I’ll be the thorn in his idea of 100% vegans within 20 yrs.

Me too. His books are awesome, and I don’t want to watch the rest of this interview! I thought this would be about his books.

Im a vegeterian myself, but the point of this interveiw should have surely been the book?!! Mind you we can’t be sure weather it’s his fault of the interveiwers.

Being vegetable is good and all. But the body does need meat.

I really respect Jonathan Safran Foer and I fell in love with his character, Oskar Schell, but this vegetarian thing is weird. I mean we don’t eat meat in order not to harm animals. But what about plants? Don’t they suffer? Just because they’re silent and they don’t move, it doesn’t mean that they don’t hurt… Unfortunately we cannot live on minerals and light, like plants do.