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Eating Animals |  | Author: Jonathan Safran Foer
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Category: Book
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Media: Hardcover
Edition: Third printing
Pages: 352
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Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.1 x 1.4
ISBN: 0316069906
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.303
EAN: 9780316069908
ASIN: 0316069906
Publication Date: November 2, 2009
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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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 Should be required reading. March 9, 2010
L. Todaro
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I normally don't make product reviews but was so affected by this book that I felt compelled to add my review. I am a life long vegetarian so always had a "clear conscience" about my food choices. However, reading this book has forced me to eliminate eggs from my diet as well...It is impossible to turn your head to the terrifying reality of what factory farming is doing to our bodies, our environment, and gentle, defenseless animals.
Do not turn your head the other way - read this book - it will change your life.
 Cover Misleading March 8, 2010
Chelsea Books (New York, NY)
2 out of 9 found this review helpful
I wanted to like this book, as it was so obviously inspired by "Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma. I thought it would be a useful addition to my bookshelf. Instead, we are given few industry facts buried within an large autobiography of the authors family. I'm glad that his Grandmother survived the Nazis and that he has a strong Jewish family tradition, but do we really need to be told so, repeatedly?
I would have been just as disturbed had the author kept banging on about being Christian, Muslim or Scientologist. Why does this have to be such a factor in the book? We all have had grandmothers who all had a certain cooking ability, certain behavioral influences, but is it appropriate to belabor so in a book ostensibly about "Eating Animals"?
The narrative is OK, as the author is an experienced fictional writer. In my opinion, and as others here have said, he should stick to doing so. Straddling autobiographical, investigative and fictional modes, as he has done with this book, takes an expert hand. Safran is not up to the job, and it simply makes the book tiresome to one who cares less about religion or the Safran family history than he does. He should have perhaps reconsidered the title, as it is certainly misleading.
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A. Baker
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Jonathan Safran Foer - the boy knows how to write! For serious! I'm sometimes skeptical when fiction authors I love wander into the realm of non-fiction, but with Foer's literary talent (Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close AND Everything Is Illuminated = pure brilliance!) and subject matter, I didn't hesitate for a second to pick up (and then devour) "Eating Animals." I wasn't disappointed. Foer presented the truth of the horrors of the farming industry in the US (I don't even need to put factory beforehand, because I now know that factory farms are pretty much ALL there is) in such a way that is was actually ENJOYABLE to read. Sure, I was repulsed, I was disgusted, I had to stop several times to dry heave or to tell my boyfriend yet another horrifying fact, but it was still GOOD.
Early on, Foer states that he didn't set out to write a book trying to convince people to go vegetarian. And I believe him. Because that's not what this book was about. It was about his quest for himself to see what meat was all about. And the fact is, the facts he found are all he needs to try to convince people to become vegetarian. He showed absolutely EVERY possible side of the story, including from interviews with ranching vegetarians and slaughterhouse workers to sections written by hardcore vegans and slaughterhouse owners and factory farm owners, etc. . . If there is another side to the story, I haven't found it - what Foer gives are the cold, hard facts. And the facts are so horrible that, no matter how you present them, it sounds like you're trying to convince. And what can I say, if you know the facts, you're probably wanting to convince people to go veggie.
So even though he didn't "set out" to write a book trying to convince people to go vegetarian, this book tries to convince people to go vegetarian. Which is a GOOD THING! It makes the convincing all that much more real.
Honestly, I am a vegan. And this book made me gladder than ever to be a vegan. At the same time, in a weird way, it makes me wish that I hadn't been a vegan beforehand and that the book had turned me. Because it would make my pleadings for you to go out and read it hold so much more weight. I want to go out and buy a copy for every single person I know and sit with them and make them read it. But then, I'm afraid. Because what if they didn't stop eating animals afterward? How could I respect them then?
In the meantime, I can only hope that I remember all of the facts he has presented, and that, when discussing veganism, I find a way to present said facts in such a succint, interesting, knowledgable way as Foer has in this brilliant memoir. I can only hope that people will choose to stop living in denial and start learning the facts, even though they know that what they learn will be horrifying.
 Something everyone should know about the meat industry March 8, 2010
A. Armes
This is a must read if you eat meat! After reading this book I'm not going to eat another piece of chicken again. I will pay extra money to purchase family farm raised pork and beef. I recommend Foer's factual account (documented citations) of the meat industry and particulary the ills of factory farming. Foer pushes a little too hard on his vegetarian and PETA beleifs.
Should be required reading for all meat & pultry eaters March 7, 2010
Michael Brochstein (New York, NY)
If the first step in resolving a problem is acknowledging that you have the problem, then requiring all meat and poultry eaters to read this book would probably satisfy step one. The knowledge gained from reading this book will probably lead to changes in our society that would benefit everyone (regardless of whether everyone became a vegetarian or not). Well written, fast reading. Highly recommended!
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