Description: Like many others, Jonathan Safran Foer spent 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. So Foer set out to find answers for himself. This quest 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. This book is what he found. Brilliantly synthesizing philosophy, literature, science, memoir, and his own detective work, Eating animals explores the many stories we use to justify our eating habits - folklore and pop culture, family traditions and national myth, apparent facts and inherent fictions - and how such tales can lull us into a brutal forgetting. Marked by Foer's moral ferocity and unvarying generosity, as well as the humor and style that made his previous books, Everything Is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, widely loved, Foer's latest tour de force informs and delights, challenging us to explore what is too often conveniently brushed aside. A celebration and a reckoning, Eating Animals is a story about the stories we've told -and the stories we now need to tell.
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Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Personalize: No
Type: Novel
Signed: No
Ex Libris: No
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Personalized: No
Original Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Book Title: Eating Animals
Number of Pages: 352 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Little Brown & Company
Publication Year: 2009
Topic: Public Policy / Agriculture & Food Policy (See Also Social Science / Agriculture & Food), Industries / Food Industry, Agriculture & Food (See Also Political Science / Public Policy / Agriculture & Food Policy)
Item Height: 1.2 in
Genre: Political Science, Social Science, Business & Economics
Item Weight: 19.9 Oz
Author: Jonathan Safran Foer
Item Length: 9.5 in
Item Width: 6.2 in
Format: Hardcover
