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Eating Animals
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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.
To reduce risk of pandemics for ourselves, our gaze needs to turn to the health of animals. Discover Jonathan Safran Foer’s eye-opening and life-changing account of the meat we eat.
‘Should be compulsory reading. A genuine masterwork. Read this book. It will change you’ Time Out
Eating Animals is the most original and urgent book on the subject of food written this century. It will change the way you think, and change the way you eat. For good.
Whether you’re flirting with veganuary, trying to cut back on animal consumption, or a lifelong meat-eater, you need to read this book.
From the bestselling author of the essential book on animal agriculture and climate crisis: We are the Weather.
‘Shocking, incandescent, brilliant’ The Times
‘Everyone who eats flesh should read this book’ Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
‘Universally compelling. Jonathan Safran Foer’s book changed me’ Natalie Portman
‘Gripping [and] original. A brilliant synthesis of argument, science and storytelling. One of the finest books ever written on the subject of eating animals’ Times Literary Supplement
‘If you eat meat and fish, you should read this book. Even if you don’t, you should. It might bring the beginning of a change of heart about all living things’ Joanna Lumley
| About Author | Jonathan Safran Foer is the author of two bestselling, award-winning novels, Everything Is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, and a bestselling work of nonfiction, Eating Animals. He |
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| Author | Jonathan Safran Foer |
| Format | Ebook |
| ISBN | 9780316086646 |
| Language | English |
| Pages | 370 |
| Publication Date | 11-02-2009 |
| Publisher | Penguin |
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Dwalin (verified owner) –
I did not enjoy this book. For starters, it is very poorly written. And the title is misleading. The book is not about eating animals but more about a case for vegetarianism. The introduction is nearly 80 pages long. There is about only 100 pages of actual information, which is vague, and the remaining is basically, for lack of a better word, indoctrination of why you should become vegetarianism. Although, I appreciate the information of the horrors of factory farms, I do not agree with his sentiment of being vegetarianism. He talks a lot about animal welfare, which I agree with but he thinks we shouldn’t be eating animals because it’s wrong. He hasn’t studied history. He is fortunate to live in a time of abundant food but in the past people needed to eat animals in order to survive. And if you look at bears, tigers, killer whales, wolves, you’ll find that they all eat other animals. I think there is nothing wrong with eating animals. I think it is better in moderation, say once a week. According the CBS’s 60 minutes, the people who live the longest eat it once a week. And if people would eat meat once per week or less, I’m sure the topics in this book, like health, environment, animal welfare would be much better. The truth is people like my dad love eating meat almost everyday. But he is taking a forceful approach in his book about being vegetarianism, trying to make them change, which I did not appreciate.