File Format | PDF
File Size | 2.03 MB
Pages | 175
Language | English
Category | Animalism
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Description: 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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Eating Animals