Eating Animals
There are many things out there that talk about our current meat industry that makes a person want to eat local and farm raised. This is a brand new release.
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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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“For a hot young writer to train his sights on a subject as unpalatable as meat production and consumption takes raw nerve. What makes Eating Animals so unusual is vegetarian Foer’s empathy for human meat eaters, his willingness to let both factory farmers and food reform activists speak for themselves, and his talent for using humor to sweeten a sour argument.” (O, The Oprah Magazine )
“The everyday horrors of factory farming are evoked so vividly, and the case against the people who run the system presented so convincingly, that anyone who, after reading Foer’s book, continues to consume the industry’s products must be without a heart, or impervious to reason, or both.”
(J.M. Coetzee )
“Stirring….compelling, earnest…Foer brings an invigorating moral clarity to the topic.” (Entertainment Weekly )
“Eating Animals carefully, deliberately, takes you through every relevant dimension of factory farming…One sees it from the inside, the outside, the moral high ground, the dithering consumer level, through Foer’s family stories, from slaughterhouse workers, animal behaviorists, even from defenders of the system… Foer’s aim is not to make your choice, but to inform it. He has done us all a great service, and we, and the animals, owe him our thanks.” (The Huffington Post Dr. Andrew Weil )
“[Eating Animals] is a postmodern version of Peter Singer’s 1975 manifesto Animal Liberation…Foer is the latest in a long line of distinguished literary vegetarians.” (New York Times Book Review Jennifer Schuessler )
“Some of our finest journalists (Michael Pollan, Eric Schlosser) and animal rights activists (Peter Singer, Temple Grandin)-not to mention Gandhi, Jesus, Pythagoras, Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, John Locke and Immanuel Kant (and so many others)-have hurled themselves against the question of eating meat and the moral issues inherent in killing animals for food. Foer, 32, in this, his first work of nonfiction, intrepidly joins their ranks…It is the kind of wisdom that, in all its humanity and clarity, deserves a place at the table with our greatest philosophers.” (Los Angeles Times Susan Salter Reynolds )
“A work of moral philosophy…After reading this book, it’s hard to disagree [with Foer].” (San Francisco Chronicle Geoff Nicholson )
“Foer’s case for ethical vegetarianism is wholly compelling…A blend of solid-and discomforting-reportage with fierce advocacy that will make committed carnivores squeal.” (Kirkus Reviews )
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