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Eating Animals |  | Author: Jonathan Safran Foer
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
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Rating:  145 reviews
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Media: Hardcover
Edition: Third printing
Pages: 352
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Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.1 x 1.4
ISBN: 0316069906
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.303
EAN: 9780316069908
ASIN: 0316069906
Publication Date: November 2, 2009
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Product Description
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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 comprehensively damning March 20, 2010
Jonathan Balcombe (Washington, D.C.)
This is the most comprehensively damning indictment against factory farming yet written. Engaging, intelligent, riveting, horrifying. It should be required reading for anyone who eats animals or the things we take from them. Safran Foer shows why 99% of the meat and dairy products American consumers are buying is produced in a way that violates our most basic values concerning animal cruelty and ecological decay.
 Tired of Vegetarians Preaching All the Time March 18, 2010
Jack Robert Fixx (Earth)
1 out of 7 found this review helpful
Let me start by saying I am not a fan of Ted Nugent's politics. But he and I do have one solid thing in common. Vegetarians get on our nerves. Somebody actually gave me this book with hopes of "converting" me to a vegetarian lifestyle. I had previously saw this snotty author on a couple talk shows promoting this book. Besides being an uber snob, he was rather rude to those who disagreed with his point of view. I have found this personality trait to be consistent with most vegetarians. Could it be they are protein deprived? If I want to be a vegetarian the decision will be mine to make, not Mr. Foer's. I'm sick of vegetarians and vegans jumping on carnivores with the zeal of televangelists. That said, I tossed Mr. Foer's book in the garbage. I usually pass good books along to friends. Note I said "good books." This one is just full of propaganda and lofty vegetarian platitudes. Mind you, it's not that I don't like animals. They taste wonderful with A-1 sauce. Get a grip, Mr. Foer's. The world is not entitled to your narrow minded opinions. Now if you'll excuse me, my porterhouse steak awaits.
Foer's book propelled me to 'do something', while Pollan's just made me think about it. March 17, 2010
Belle E. Rempert
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book should be required reading for anyone who decides they want to eat meat during their lifetime. If you know the truth, you can make a better informed decision, and I think the problem is that people just don't know about what goes on. I found this book horrifying in some parts, and was astounded at what can and does go on when it comes to the treatment and death of animals all because we feel like eating some chicken nuggets that day. He writes in a way that is not some empty, factual, industrial exploration. It is actually interesting and he draws you in with his narrative, correctly and meaningful connecting eating meat and it's implications and influences on a human beings life, which I believe was the point of the book; Connecting what it means to eat animals with your own life. I have read Michael Pollan's book, and very much enjoyed it. But I read this book after Omnivore's Delimma, and was blown away by how much more impact and meaning it had for me than Pollan's. And while I still like his book tremendously, I see how Foer's book really made me want to 'do something'...while Pollan's just made me think about it.
Also, after reading this book, in regards to the facts and truth he reveals, it made Ominvore's Delimma feel like a high school course in factory farming. Perhaps that is because he was willing to go all the way, show us the disgusting dirty truth, because he isn't going to turn around and eat meat later. Pollan still eats meat, so I wonder if that has anything to do with how his book actually treads lightly in regards to slaughter and inhumane issues. He covers them, for sure, but not as in depth as Foer did. And that makes me curious.
Overall, I wish I could convince everyone to read this book. It is so important. Not only to animals, but to people and their environment they are choosing to destroy in the name of profit.
Some people just dont get it... March 17, 2010
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
If you are human it is impossible not to relate and be changed by this book. It has been nothing short of life changing for this hardened carnivore... Ignore the bad reviews from those who have never read the book or who are still in denial of the reality this book brings to light.
An important book - especially if you eat meat! March 15, 2010
Suspense Fan (Germany, Europe)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
What? You want ME to read that book?
Nah! I don't need no stinkin' Vegetarian horror stories ...
Chances are, that - if you always, regularly or sometimes eat meat - you are right within the target group for this book ... but you are most likely not going to read it.
There are many reasons for that ... You do not want to spoil your appetite with new horror stories. After all, you know that if you look closely at how meat is made, you expect that you will not find much there that is pleasant.
But, what I found most interesting about the book, is, that - if you DO eat meat - then you will find a lot of very useful information why you should at least avoid some kinds of meat (not because your heart bleeds because of animals suffering, but rather because you value your personal health)
So, you might find the book very interesting reading...
Best regards,
Andy
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