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. In this book, Jonathan believes that those who eat meat are. 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.īrilliantly 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. Jonathan Safran Foer is an American writer who is known for his novel, Everything Is Illuminated. 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. It will change the way you think, and change the way you eat. It will change you' Time Out Eating Animals is the most original and urgent book on the subject of food written this century. Jonathan Safran Foer spent much of his teenage and college years oscillating between omnivore and vegetarian. Discover Jonathan Safran Foer's eye-opening and life-changing account of the meat we eat.
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