Eating Animals
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4.7 • 21 Ratings
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Publisher Description
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
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The latest from novelist Foer is a surprising but characteristically brilliant memoir-investigation, boasting an exhaustively-argued account of one man-child's decade-long struggle with vegetarianism. On the eve of becoming a father, Foer takes all the arguments for and against vegetarianism a neurotic step beyond and, to decide how to feed his coming baby, investigates everything from the intelligence level of our most popular meat providers-cattle, pigs, and poultry-to the specious self-justifications (his own included) for eating some meat products and not others. Foer offers a lighthearted counterpoint to his investigation in doting portraits of his loving grandmother, and her meat-and-potatoes comfort food, leaving him to wrestle with the comparative weight of food's socio-cultural significance and its economic-moral-political meaning. Without pulling any punches-factory farming is given the full expose treatment-Foer combines an array of facts, astutely-written anecdotes, and his furious, inward-spinning energy to make a personal, highly entertaining take on an increasingly visible (and book-selling) moral question; call it, perhaps, An Omnivore's Dilemma.
Customer Reviews
Thought Provoking
A deeply thought provoking book that challenges many people's long held views regarding the consumption of meat. Exceptionally well researched and argued - a must for anyone who cares about the welfare of animals.
Brilliant
I have this book in print, so I didn't buy the iBook, but it really is fantastic and informative and sad and funny all at once. It's very well written and easy to read. This book is the reason I've been vegetarian for a year now.
Eating animals
Love it! Funny, serious, informative. A treasure of a book.