false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255568755m/6604712.jpg 6604712 8 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 3149322 book 5 3 2009 Eating Animals total:163|5:85|4:55|3:18|2:3|1:2| 163 707 1952 89 5 45 false false Mon Nov 09 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Aug 21 00:35:49 -0700 2009 Sun Nov 22 03:37:45 -0800 2009
Then the next chapter would show me my previous ignorance. Over and over. "I get it, now." Then OMFG. OH MY FUCKING GOD. It was pretty horrifying reading about the chic...more...]]> 5 18 false false Mon Nov 09 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 05 06:42:05 -0800 2008 Mon Nov 09 19:45:08 -0800 2009
I’ve read so many books such as this but none for a while, and it’s because reading about how humans use animals is so devastating for me. It...more...]]> 5 15 false false Wed Nov 11 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 03 23:43:24 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 15 00:35:16 -0800 2009 Eating Animals around for a few days and you'll...more...]]> 5 40 false false Sat Oct 10 09:23:15 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 14 08:28:36 -0700 2009 TO SERVE MAN

i can't review this book. i can't even finish it. the page-count to tears-shed ratio is just too high. and my head is not in the right place for this shit. (and talk about preaching to the choir…) -- i haven't read jonathan safran foer's novels and fuckoff what he's ever wr...more...]]> 5 18 false false Thu Nov 19 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 16 06:21:21 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 23 07:18:07 -0800 2009 (your book, not steak)

Look, I love meat. I really do. I hate myself for that, but I love meat. I also deplore seeing living creatures suffer. (I'm the jerk that lets spiders out of the house instead of squishing them.) I also know that...more...]]> 4 2 false false Tue Nov 10 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 02 21:09:56 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 16 15:23:05 -0800 2009 1 more...]]> 0 1 false false Mon Nov 02 11:39:02 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 23 17:05:28 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 3 false false Fri Nov 13 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Oct 16 14:02:14 -0700 2009 Sun Nov 15 13:30:59 -0800 2009 1 Diet for a New America How Your Food Choices Affect Your Health, Happiness and the Future of Life on Earth in a way. It didn't have anything to do with nutrition like DfaNA, but it was similar in that the author in no way pushes anyone to give up eating animals or o...more...]]> 5 3 false false Sun Nov 15 18:32:22 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 19 21:32:26 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 32 false false Tue Nov 10 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Aug 20 20:20:39 -0700 2009 Tue Nov 10 15:02:28 -0800 2009 “For us to maintain our way of living, we must tell lies to each other and especially to ourselves. The lies are necessary because, without them, many deplorable acts would become impossibilities.”
-Derrick Jensen

People cannot talk about their food choices without resorting to a...more...]]> 5 3 false false Sun Nov 15 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 15 18:19:49 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 15 18:31:08 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 10 false false Tue Nov 10 08:43:35 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 10 10:09:59 -0800 2009 Omnivore's Dilemma and Fast Food Nation and all the types of books that people who are trying to be socially conscious are supposed to read, and I know about the horrors of factory farming and how brut...more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Nov 26 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 24 14:20:22 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 26 11:28:55 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 4 false false Tue Nov 03 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 02 10:56:20 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 03 14:41:14 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Nov 20 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 23 07:44:30 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 25 09:44:38 -0800 2009 Eating Animals. More than a work of advocacy, it reads as an honest exploration into the dilemma of eating meat that the author promises from the very beginning. We’re left to weigh the new knowledge we’ve g...more...]]> 5 20 false false Wed Nov 04 07:34:19 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 06 10:19:09 -0800 2009
With my son not being able to have any sort of gluten or artificial coloring in the food he eats, I've alw...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Nov 23 11:05:47 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 23 19:50:27 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 2 false false Mon Nov 09 05:37:00 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 12 09:41:54 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 4 false false Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Nov 13 12:30:49 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 13 12:32:08 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Nov 23 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 15 18:49:25 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 23 10:30:27 -0800 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=6604712