Eating Animals
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Exposes common misconceptions about how animals are slaughtered and processed for food, drawing on sources from ranging from popular culture to national tradition to reveal how the meat industry misrepresents its practices.
Hachette Book Group
Jonathan Safran … More »
Exposes common misconceptions about how animals are slaughtered and processed for food, drawing on sources from ranging from popular culture to national tradition to reveal how the meat industry misrepresents its practices.
Hachette Book Group
Jonathan Safran Foer spent much of his teenage and college years oscillating between omnivore and vegetarian. But on the brink of fatherhood-facing the prospect of having to make dietary choices on a child's behalf-his casual questioning took on an urgency His quest for answers ultimately required him to visit factory farms in the middle of the night, dissect the emotional ingredients of meals from his childhood, and probe some of his most primal instincts about right and wrong. Brilliantly synthesizing philosophy, literature, science, memoir and his own detective work, Eating Animals explores the many fictions we use to justify our eating habits-from folklore to pop culture to family traditions and national myth-and how such tales can lull us into a brutal forgetting. Marked by Foer's profound moral ferocity and unvarying generosity, as well as the vibrant style and creativity that made his previous books, Everything is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, widely loved, Eating Animals is a celebration and a reckoning, a story about the stories we've told-and the stories we now need to tell.
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The latest from novelist Foer is a surprising but characteristically brilliant memoir-investigation, boasting an exhaustively-argued account of one man-child's decade-long struggle with vegetarianism. On the eve of becoming a father, Foer takes all the arguments for and against vegetarianism a neurotic step beyond and, to decide how to feed his coming baby, investigates everything from the intelligence level of our most popular meat providers-cattle, pigs, and poultry-to the specious self-justifications (his own included) for eating some meat products and not others. Foer offers a lighthearted counterpoint to his investigation in doting portraits of his loving grandmother, and her meat-and-potatoes comfort food, leaving him to wrestle with the comparative weight of food's socio-cultural significance and its economic-moral-political meaning. Without pulling any punches-factory farming is given the full expose treatment-Foer combines an array of facts, astutely-written anecdotes, and his furious, inward-spinning energy to make a personal, highly entertaining take on an increasingly visible (and book-selling) moral question; call it, perhaps, An Omnivore's Dilemma.(From Publisher's Weekly)
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Add a CommentInitially, I found the writing to be a little disjointed; however, I loved the book overall and the overall message. I really didn't know all that he wrote about and it made me feel awful - humans are bleeping awful - how could we even allow this to happen? I have spoken about the book a few times and told people they should read it and I often get a response of "oh, I really don't want to know". Foer makes a quote near the end that was something to the effect of "you are either ignorant or indifferent" and once you are no longer ignorant, it is difficult to remain indifferent. A must must read!
This book is really interesting and informative and quite well written. However, it'll probably make you stop eating meat.
A well-researched book, with a variety of interviews and research on how and who your meat comes from. Written from the perspective of a new father who is looking for answers (and certainly doesn't get them from big Ag).
Most other books talk about how terrible conditions are for the animals. Safran Foer certainly does that, but he also mentions the effects factory farming has on people. It's a touching book that has made me reconsider how I eat.
As essential a book on food and morality as *Food Politics*, *Food, Inc* or anything Michael Pollan has done. Very worth picking up.
I am not a vegetarian or vegan, but this book was excellent. It really made me question the morality of the way I eat.
This book is prompting me to think more seriously about where my food comes from - especially meat. Not only is factory farming cruel to animals, it's terrible for the environment, the community it's in, and human health. Ugh. Will definitely make you re-examine your food.
Unreal book. Author writes with ease and great literary flow. The book is perplexing, inspiring, and motivating. Greatly enjoyed the read and would recomend this book to anyone who cares about what their family eats, cares about the environment, and being more intune with sustainability.
A serious book with a compelling narrative that could change the way you live and eat. An informative book that will make you laugh, cry and really think about the food on your plate.
Excellent book which tells the truth about what goes on in factory farms. I highly recommend this book. It made me feel proud to be a vegetarian.