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- Publisher: Little Brown and Company
- Number of Pages: 256
- ISBN: 0316069906
- WAPI (Tower ID): 113427121
- Release Date: November 2, 2009
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Product DescriptionMore Books by Jonathan Safran Foer (Author)Run a Quick Search on "Eating Animals" by Jonathan Safran Foer to Browse Related Products:Browse more products related to "Eating Animals"Browse more products related to "Jonathan Safran Foer"Review"[T]his book, its author warns, is not a case for vegetarianism. It's a case for being informed and taking responsibility....You might not like being lectured on this topic, and Foer is not a philosopher or a logician -- so his arguments now and then veer into the shrill zone. For some readers, this will be the final straw, the book that finally makes you forgo the Thanksgiving turkey in favor of 10,000 other available dishes." "Reading EATING ANIMALS is like getting a colonoscopy: It's important and salutary and everyone should do it. But if it were just a bit more pleasant, or done with a drop more lube, it would be a lot easier to make it a regular thing." "[Foer's] unflinching insistence that we take stringent moral inventory of our eating habits constitutes this book's greatest strengths....[W]hile your ethical standards regarding the treatment of animals may be less (or more) exacting than Foer's, his book will, at the very least, make you think hard about what those standards are, and why you are--or are not--living by them." "EATING ANIMALS closes with a turkey-less Thanksgiving. As a holiday, it doesn't sound like a lot of fun. But this is Foer's point. We are, he suggests, defined not just by what we do; we are defined by what we are willing to do without. Vegetarianism requires the renunciation of real and irreplaceable pleasures. To Foer's credit, he is not embarrassed to ask this of us." "EATING ANIMALS isn't just an anti-meat screed, or an impassioned case for vegetarianism. Instead, Foer tells a story that is part memoir and part investigative report. And it's a book that takes America's meat-dominated diet to task." Publisher's noteThe award-winning author of Everything Is Illuminated exposes common misconceptions about how animals are slaughtered and processed for food, drawing on sources from popular culture to national tradition to reveal how the meat industry misrepresents its practices. The award-winning author of Everything Is Illuminated exposes common misconceptions about how animals are slaughtered and processed for food, drawing on sources from popular culture to national tradition to reveal how the meat industry misrepresents its practices. Jonathan Safran Foer spent much of his teenage and college years oscillating between carnivore and vegetarian. As he became a husband and a father, he kept returning to two questions: Why do we eat animals? And would we eat them if we knew how they got on our dinner plates? Brilliantly synthesizing philosophy, literature, science, and his own undercover 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 justify a brutal ignorance. 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," huge bestsellers, Eating Animals is a celebration and a reckoning, a story about the stories we've told--and the stories we now need to tell. AnnotationJonathan Safran Foer recounts the results of his intrepid investigation into factory farming and industrial food production, an endeavor which convinced him of the benefits of a vegetarian diet. Foer, who had been an on-again/off-again vegetarian since childhood, was motivated to solidify his stand on diet by his impending fatherhood. He identifies and investigates the numerous myths that people tell themselves to justify their consumption of meat, from concerns about nutrition to cultural interests to family compromise, and systematically addresses each one through his own experience and his enthusiastic research, which included breaking into a factory farm in the middle of the night to observe their practices. Written with the same compelling wit and vigor which made Foer's first two novels such popular and critical successes, EATING ANIMALS consistently entertains even as it enlightens readers on the extensive detriments of remaining carnivorous. If You Enjoy "Eating Animals (Hardcover)", May We Also Recommend:
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