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Eating Animals |  | Author: Jonathan Safran Foer
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
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Pages: 352
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Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 5.9 x 1.2
ISBN: 0316069906
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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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 Life-Changing September 3, 2010
Jessie Strand (Brooklyn, NY)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Eating Animals is a life-changing book that could ostensibly elicit a much needed revolution. Less than half way through reading it I was already trying to convince my family and friends to read it. Having become a vegetarian as a child I was familiar with many of the inhumane ways farm animals are treated, as well as the monumental degree to which factory farming contributes to global warming. However, this book still left me feeling shocked and heartbroken. As someone who has wavered from vegetarian to vegan to pescetarian for most of my life, I was moved by Foer's personal narrative. Eating Animals has made me unable and unwilling to turn a blind eye to the suffering endured by animals, including humans, for the sake of our consumption. I highly recommend this book to EVERYONE, regardless of whether or not you eat meat. Everyone has the right to know, and should know, how their food is produced and how their daily decisions impact their surroundings.
Eating August 29, 2010
Dr Adam Weiss (Buffalo Grove,IL.)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
We all have to eat, but the way we choose to eat and what we put in our bodies is a very powerful position to be in.
Author Safran argues the right and wrong of animal processing and what you as a consumer can do to make intelligent choices to what goes on your plate at every meal, every day. This book was very insightful and as a reader you come out with a much better understanding of what takes place to bringing food to the table rather than an after thought many of us do when we decide to eat. Highly recommended.
 Where Do You Get Your B12? August 28, 2010
J. Hagg
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
Although the facts concerning the cruelty to animals on factory farming operations and in slaughtering houses made this a two star instead of a one star review, I am still undoing the damage of nine years on a vegan diet. The only ways to obtain B12 is either supplementation or through eating animal products. Vitamin D is either gotten through sunlight, supplementation or animal products. Animal products are the only way to obtain EPA and DHA, the breakdown products of Omega three linoleic acid. EPA and DHA are brain food and also work inside the bodies cell to enable them to function. Flax is high in linoleic acid, which is parent product that breaks down in EPA and DHA, but from all I have read many people do not make this conversion well.
The best book I've read on nutrition is "The Metabolic Type Diet," by William Wolcott. According to Wolcott some people need higher fat, protein diets than other people. I'm one of those, so my years of vegan eating with little fat or protein were a disaster for me. According to Wolcott, a second group need a mix of high fat, protein foods, low fat, protein foods and more carbohydrates. A third group need more carbohydrates, and less fat and protein. We all need some of each group, fats carbohydrates and proteins, some people just need more of certain nutrients and less of other nutrients.
My love for animals aside, I can not be healthy on either a vegan or vegetarian diet. Having been a Seventh Day Adventist for a number of years, I've seen way to many pasty colored, skinny, ridden with allergies, just pain unhealthy vegans. Even a vegetarian diet needs adequate fat and protein to be workable.The author doesn't mention these vital concepts even once in the book. The book of Proverbs tells us that how we treat our animals will affect us personally. My solution to the "horrors" of the way most animals are raised and butchered is to eat the healthiest animal products I can obtain. If at all possible locally grown and always organic. I know the farmer who raises my beef, as well as my chicken. I know this is more expensive and some can't afford it. But just look at what we spend our money on that we could do without. The quality of our food is extremely important. I'm typing this review on a ten year old computer, which obviously works just fine and live in a small condo, but eat the highest quality food I can afford.
I agree with the reviewers who contend the author is often silly, overly emotional in his arguments for a vegetarian diet, and overly pushy concerning his vegetarian beliefs. While animals have very real feelings, they are not human. Also, even though the author claims to be a vegetarian, he is a vegan. His thanksgiving dinner is all carbohydrates, which is unhealthy. He has nothing good say about even pastured, organic eggs and dairy, which are eaten by vegetarians. Also, what does his wife think of all of this? After a few words about her in discussing the birth of their not his baby, the book is all about author and his odd parents and grandparents. He goes to lengths to let you know how different these people are. I only hope the author comes to his senses before he does his son any real harm. I know some very sickly vegans. A really interesting book on the subject of factory farming is,"Righteous Porkchop."
Changed How I Eat & Look at Food August 26, 2010
DTRA (So Cal USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I heard about this book during an episode of Charlie Rose. The information brought up was enough for my wife and I to decide on getting the book for ourselves. It has been more than worth it, and now we find ourselves talking about and getting it for others frequently.
I have always been a meat eater's meat eater. I love grilling, steaks, burgers, hot-dogs, bacon, you name it. After finding out how these products get to our stores and onto our plates I have changed. Now the only meat my wife and I eat is fish and we are moving steadily towards veganism. The irony is that the change hasn't been bad at all. I've found that 95% of the foods I love can be matched or beaten by simply good cooking using items from the farmers market (for burgers we grill eggplant and portabella mushrooms with onions, peppers, avocado, cabbage, veggie bacon and vegan cheese). Throughout this process, along with getting more exercise, I have lost 50Lbs. We look better, we feel better, we cook better, and it hasn't been difficult to do.
The book is incredibly thoughtful and well written. It presents a broad perspective on the complex issues involved with eating animals and the repercussions thereof. There is a distinct argument for vegetarianism throughout the book - but after all, there is a distinct argument for vegetarianism in life. The information is compelling and enjoyable and easily digested. The effect over all is one of building a clear vision of the issue and inevitably increasing how intentional one is about their eating habits - even if that simply means giving money to cleaner, more conscientious meat producers. Both to keep those businesses alive that produce healthy(er) meat and for the flavor and health of your meals themselves.
Great read, strongly recommended.
Life Altering August 22, 2010
E. Ball
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Never would I have picked up a book with the title Eating Animals. But I'm a fan of Jonathan Safran Foer's writing so I had to check it out. His desire to know what he was feeding his newborn son and his relationship and love for his dog, caught my attention and in my case, the rest, as they say, is history. I am now a vegetarian after 60 years of being a meat eater. I cried every day that I read this book. The factory farming scenes that Foer describes are horrific and I realized I could no longer be part of such cruelty. Throw in the incredible damage to our planet because of factory farming, and I am fully convinced vegetarianism is essential for so many reasons, including our own physical health. Whether or not it will have this effect on everyone, everyone who is a meat eater should read this book and know where their food comes from and the process it goes through before reaching their table.
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