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Eating Animals

by Jonathan Safran Foer

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Synopsis:

Jonathan Safran Foer spent much of his teenage and college years oscillating between carnivore and vegetarian. As he became a husband and a father, he kept returning to two questions: Why do we eat animals? And would we eat them if we knew how they got on our dinner plates?

Brilliantly synthesizing philosophy, literature, science, and his own undercover 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 justify a brutal ignorance.

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, huge bestsellers, 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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Brilliantly synthesizing philosophy, literature, science, and Foer's own undercover detective work, Eating Animals explores the many fictions people use to justify their eating habits — from folklore and family traditions to national myth — and how such tales justify a brutal ignorance.

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Jonathan Safran Foer is one of the most acclaimed young writers of his generation, a "certified wunderkind" (Time) whose work has appeared in The Paris Review, The New York Times, and The New Yorker. He has earned a National Jewish Book Award, a Guardian First Book Award, and remarkable praise for his first two novels, Everything Is Illuminated (adapted for film in 2005) and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. Eating Animals is his first work of nonfiction.

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Vicki Newell, December 5, 2009 (view all comments by Vicki Newell)
I've often thought about becoming a vegetarian because I know the health aspects of eating meat and I love all vegetables...except beets. The problem is, I aIso love meat. Chicken, steak, burgers, ham, bacon, roasts. YUM!

The book makes many good points but at times feels like it's trying to shock or gross you out so that you'll stop eating meat. I won't stop, although I'll try to be more aware of where the meat I'm eating is coming from.

I think everyone should read this book whether they are or want to become a vegetarian, it is full of much needed info and and gives you pause for thought. I believe animals were put here by God for food, so I don't believe is wrong to eat meat. But animals should not be mistreated for any reason. Period.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780316069908
Author:
Foer, Jonathan Safran
Publisher:
Little Brown and Company
Subject:
General
Subject:
Animal Rights
Subject:
Vegetarianism
Subject:
Vegetarianism - Philosophy
Publication Date:
November 2009
Binding:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Pages:
341
Dimensions:
956x630x113 124

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