Eating Animals
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| Rating | : | 4.78 (875 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B002VGERCI |
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| Number of Pages | : | 102 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-09-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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It should be compulsory reading A simply written, yet perfectly crafted book (I have never highlighted as many powerful and evocative sentences in a single book before!). It makes a compelling argument both for and against. And, for once, tackles the issue holistically.It is the first thing that has compelled me to take a firm stance within my own framework. And it has encouraged me to. A recommended book for any (formal) eating animal. I regret being able to give no more than five stars to this book. Nearly at the end of my most vulnerable years, I've become more conscious of the choices I have and will have to make as a human being, especially when it comes to food. The reason why I wanted to read this book in the first place was to know whether my decision to become a vegetarian was . "Philosophy of Eating Animals" according to Sam Modahl. One of my first introductions to the idea of animal slaughter that I can recall is the movie Chicken Run. Do any of you remember that movie? This was back when we had more claymation going on, and there’s a few scenes that depicted abuse of the chickens, I mean the main goal of the movie was for the chickens to escape. Let’s be honest, how ma
Jonathan Safran Foer spent much of his life oscillating between enthusiastic carnivore and occasional vegetarian. 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." . Once he started a family, the moral dimensions of food became increasingly important.Faced with the prospect of being unable to explain why
. On the eve of becoming a father, Foer takes all the arguments for and against vegetarianism a neurotic step beyond and, to decide how to feed his coming baby, investigates everything from the intelligence level of our most popular meat providers-cattle, pigs, and poultry-to the specious self-justifications (his own included) for eating some meat products and not others. The latest from novelist Foer is a surprising but characteristically brilliant memoir-investigation, boasting an exhaustively-argued account of one man-child's decade-long struggle with vegetarianism. From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. Foer offers a lighthearted counterpoint to his investigation in doting port