Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer

Eating Animals

by Jonathan Safran Foer

Eating Animals is a riveting expose which presents the gut-wrenching truth about the price paid by the environment, the government, the Third World and the animals themselves in order to put meat on our tables more quickly and conveniently than ever before.

Interweaving a variety of monologues and balancing humour and suspense with informed rationalism, Eating Animals is as much a novelistic account of an intellectual journey as it is a fresh and open look at the ethical debate around meat-eating. Unlike most other books on the subject, Eating Animals also explores the possibilites for those who do eat meat to do so more responsibly, making this an important book not just for vegetarians, but for anyone who is concerned about the ramifications and significance of their chosen lifestyle.

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An excellent book with both the author's experiences and facts about the impact of meat consumption on global warming and climate change, the scary state of farms and factories, and the ethics of what the animals endure there. This book helped solidify my reasons for being a vegetarian. If I'd still been a meat eater while reading this, I wouldn't by the time I finished!

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