Eating Animals

Jonathan Safran Foer spent much of his teenage and college years oscillating between enthusiastic carnivore and occasional vegetarian. 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 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. Eating Animals explores the many fictions we use to justify our eating habits—from folklore to pop culture to family traditions—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 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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353 Pages
Published by Little, Brown and Company on Nov 02, 2009
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Review by sunbreak
Likeless so far. Lead the way
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