Eating Animals

Jonathan Safran Foer

Hamish Hamilton, Mar 29, 2010 - Social Science - 341 pages

From the Publisher: 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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User Review  - lynda - Goodreads

My bible for living a vegan life. After reading this I don't see how anyone can put packaged meat in their bodies again.

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User Review  - Margot - Goodreads

I think it's time for me to read another one of these food politics books, because I've lapsed into lazy (factory-farmed) food consumption again recently. This book changed the way I think about the ...

About the author

Jonathan Safran Foer (born 1977) is an American author best known for his novels Everything Is Illuminated (2002) and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005). He was born in Washington, D.C. and attended Georgetown Day School and Princeton University. In 2000, Foer was awarded the Zoetrope: All-Story Fiction Prize and in 2007 he was included in Granta's Best of Young American Novelists. His forthcoming nonfiction book is entitled, Eating Animals. In June 2004, he married the novelist Nicole Krauss. They live in Park Slope in Brooklyn, New York, and have two children.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Eating Animals
• Author: Jonathan Safran Foer
• Publisher: Hamish Hamilton, 2010
• ISBN: 0241143934, 9780241143933
• Length: 341 pages
• Subjects: Social Science / Agriculture & Food