In the book review, “Flesh of Your Flesh” (2009), Elizabeth Kolbert, a staff writer at The New Yorker, asserts that many Americans view pets and animals differently. Americans tend to spend more than thousands of dollars each year buying pet food and accessories for their pets, but when it comes to eating meat from the grocery store or from restaurants not all people think the same way as if the meat they are eating were pets, and show regret towards the eating of animals. Americans are careless of where their food came from, and Kolbert supports her claim by first exploring Jonathan Safran Foer’s book “Eating Meat”. Kolbert then reviews how Foer is “well aware, some of the animals that suffer most are from the factory-farm system”(Foer 1), and finally, Kolbert describes how most animals are harmed on the farm. For example, Kolbert describes how chick’s beaks are trimmed with a hot blade, and “laying chickens are all jammed together tightly in a cage”(Kolbert 1). Kolbert appears to write in hopes of making the audience question if they should eat meat while owning a pet in order to make the audience feel bad for the actions they do; she does this by describing the excruciating circumstances that the farm animals are living in and the harsh mistreatments that people are doing to them in order to kill them. Kolbert has a direct tone with her audience that most likely consists of Americans who have meat diets but also own pets and are wondering if they should keep eating meat.