Eating Animals

by JonathanSafranFoer (Author)

• Used

  Mass Market Paperback
  2010

  $5.25

  Like many young Americans, Jonathan Safran Foer spent much of his teenage and college years oscillating between enthusiastic carnivore and occasional vegetarian. As he became a husband, and then a father, the moral dimensions of eating became increasingly important to him. Faced with the prospect of being unable to explain why we eat some animals and not others, Foer set out to explore the origins of many eating traditions and the fictions involved with creating them. Traveling to the darkest corners of our dining habits, Foer raises the unspoken question behind every fish we eat, every chicken we fry, and every burger we grill. Part memoir and part investigative report, Eating Animals is a book that, in the words of the Los Angeles Times, places Jonathan Safran Foer at the table with our greatest philosophers.

• Used

  Paperback
  2009

  $3.46

  Eating Animals is a uniquely passionate, powerful and provocative exploration of what we eat, and why, by the bestselling author of Everything is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.

• Used

  Hardcover
  2010

  $3.46

  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.

• New

  Paperback
  2011

  $13.21

  From the bestselling author of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close and Everything is Illuminated: Discover the mind-blowing, life-changing book which revolutionised the way we think about meat - coming soon as a major documentary film by Natalie Portman Eating Animals is the single most original book about food written this century. It will change the way you think and change the way you eat. For good. Whether you're doing veganuary, trying to cut back on animal consumption, or a lifelong meat-eater, you need to read this book. 'Universally compelling. Jonathan Safran Foer's book changed me' - Natalie Portman 'Moving, disturbing, should be compulsory reading. A genuine masterwork. Read this book. It will change you' Time Out 'If you eat meat and fish, you should read this book. Even if you don't, you should. It might bring the beginning of a change of heart about all living things' Joanna Lumley 'Gripping, breathtaking, original. A brilliant synthesis of argument, science and storytelling. One of the finest books ever written on the subject of eating animals' TLS 'Shocking, incandescent, brilliant' The Times 'Horrifying, eloquent, timely' Spectator