Eating Animals

Jonathan Safran Foer

Little, Brown, Nov 2, 2009 - Social Science - 641 pages

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  - Amanda - Goodreads

This was a very thought out presentation/argument for conscious consumerism. It's not a plea for everybody to be a vegetarian because, as Foer mentions, not only can a book NOT convert some crazy ...

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User Review  - Nancy - Goodreads

A bit tiresome, but it did get me to only buy organic meat, which is saying a lot.

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. His title Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close made The N.Y. Times Best Seller List for 2012.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Eating Animals
• Author: Jonathan Safran Foer
• Publisher: Little, Brown, 2009
• ISBN: 0316086649, 9780316086646
• Length: 641 pages
• Subjects: Social Science / General