Title: Eating Animals Pdf
Author: Jonathan Safran Foer
Published Date: 2010-09-01
Page: 368
"Stirring...compelling, earnest....Foer brings an invigorating moral clarity to the topic."―Entertainment Weekly"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....It's a book that takes America's meat-dominated diet to task."―NPR, All Things Considered"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."―Andrew Weil, MD"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"A work of moral philosophy....The fact that Foer makes me wonder whether I'm being, at best, a hypocrite every time I eat a piece of beef suggests he's completely successful in at least one ambition." ―Geoff Nicholson, San Francisco Chronicle"Extraordinarily thoughtful and intelligent." ―Holly Silva, St. Louis Post-Dispatch"Foer's book raises critical ethical questions we all need to face....We shouldn't be polluting the planet to satisfy our appetites."―Huffington Post "Eating Animals stands as a pop-cultural landmark, destined to be the starting point for a lot of overdue conversations." ―Philadelphia Daily News"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."―Jonathan Safran Foer is the author of Everything Is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. His books have been translated into thirty-six languages. Everything Is Illuminated received a National Jewish Book Award and a Guardian First Book Award, and was made into a film by Liev Schreiber. Foer lives in Brooklyn.
Bestselling author Jonathan Safran Foer spent much of his life oscillating between enthusiastic carnivore and occasional vegetarian. For years he was content to live with uncertainty about his own dietary choices-but once he started a family, the moral dimensions of food became increasingly important.
Faced with the prospect of being unable to explain why we eat some animals and not others, Foer set out to explore the origins of many eating traditions and the fictions involved with creating them. Traveling to the darkest corners of our dining habits, Foer raises the unspoken question behind every fish we eat, every chicken we fry, and every burger we grill.
Part memoir and part investigative report, Eating Animals is a book that, in the words of the Los Angeles Times, places Jonathan Safran Foer "at the table with our greatest philosophers" -and a must-read for anyone who cares about building a more humane and healthy world.
Life-changing Eating Animals doesn't convince readers to not eat meat, dairy, or fish, but is framed around three ideas: that our farming practices have become increasingly unethical, harmful to our environment, and dangerous to our bodies. His empathetic ways of showing these unapologetic truths, along with his witty sense of humor, lets even the most close-minded people enjoy this book. There are intense and grotesque descriptions of turkey, beef, egg, pork, and fish farming, but they're important. We see from this book the main point: factory farms have taken over our food industry and are awful in numerous ways to humans and animals. With Foer's vivid descriptions, enjoyable narrations, and humor, I recommended this book to meat-eaters and vegetarians alike. It's not preachy, but makes a controversial topic that many of us turn our heads to something so impactful. He includes letters from factory farmers and descriptions of his own three year investigation, and we are learning right along with him in an entertaining and capturing way.... to keep my review for this book short and sweet because I do not have a whole lot to ... I’m going to keep my review for this book short and sweet because I do not have a whole lot to say about this that others have not already said. I feel this book is a four star book because it does give the reader an inside glimpse into the meat industry from the perspective of the most commonly eaten animals in America--Chickens, Pigs, and Cows. This work also comes with the proper citations that helps to defend the authors argument. So why did I give this book a four out of five star review instead of the full stars? Personally, I feel with a topic as heavy as animal rights/abuse, there will already be enough hard truths to swallow and emotions poured on to the reader, so I do not think the background family information was necessary, or any of the extra mood killing stories about starvation and such. I know these pieces were written to help the author illustrate his points, but to me I just felt like this additional history was unnecessary. I also did not like the fact that with a convincing argument like the author has, that he leaves out what to do when one decides to go vegan/vegetarian. He gives you just enough information to make a decision, but not enough to follow through with a new diet, I personally just feel there should be some info in the back of the book that informs the reader where to go next. But these two issues I have brought up are the only reason this book lost a star, other than these issues, the book is solid. If you are already an animal rights activist though, you probably won’t learn a whole lot here.Required reading for anyone with compassion We are a species with our collective heads in the sand. We don't want to think about what goes on at the mass slaughter facilities. Why don't we take our children to watch animals being harvested if there is nothing to be ashamed of? We take them to harvest strawberries. It's because we know that it's wrong. Foer makes us look. What he shows us should make us disgusted to belong to a species that tolerates and encourages mass suffering and cruelty.
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