Natalie Portman: Eating Meat = Rape?
Actress Natalie Portman, a devoted vegetarian, wrote an interesting essay defending Jonathan Safran Foer’s ‘Eating Animals’ and crediting it for her transformation into a better person (or so she thinks) who doesn’t eat animals and rejects all animal byproducts.
“I’ve always been shy about being critical of others’ choices because I hate when people do that to me,” she writes. “I’m often interrogated about being vegetarian (e.g., ‘What if you find out that carrots feel pain, too? Then what’ll you eat?’).
“I’ve also been afraid to feel as if I know better than someone else—a historically dangerous stance (I’m often reminded that ‘Hitler was a vegetarian, too, you know.’) But this book reminded me that some things are just wrong.”
“He posits that consideration…which has more to do with being polite to your tablemates than sticking to your own ideals, would be absurd if applied to any other belief (e.g., I don’t believe in rape, but if that’s what it takes to please my dinner hosts, then so be it).”
The beautiful 28 year-old, who has a Harvard bachelor’s degree in psychology, chose the worst comparison to substantiate her beliefs – you just cannot put eating meat and rape in the same bag. It’s completely inappropriate, stupid and absurdly disrespectful to rape victims.
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