Eating Animals
A Vegan, Science, Memoir book. It shouldn't be the consumer's responsibility to figure out what's cruel and what's kind, what's environmentally destructive and what's sustainable....
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...
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It shouldn't be the consumer's responsibility to figure out what's cruel and what's kind, what's environmentally destructive and what's sustainable. Cruel and destructive food products should be illegal. We don't need the option of buying children's toys made with lead paint, or aerosols with chlorofluorocarbons, or medicines with unlabeled side effects. And we don't need the option of buying factory-farmed animals. Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals // I love sushi, I love fried chicken, I love steak. But there is a limit to my love, Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals // I can't count the times that upon telling someone I am vegetarian, he or she responded by pointing out an inconsistency in my lifestyle or trying to find a flaw in an argument I never made. (I have often felt that my vegetarianism matters more to such people than it does to me.) Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals //
I can't possibly finish this book. It makes me cry, feel disgusted and literally nauseated. I can only try to always be aware, a good vegetarian and support animal rights as much as I can. I'm not sure I can say this book was amazing. This is a different kind of five star rating. But it is probably one of the most important. Foer is the first author to (successfully and/or popularly) consider the human impetus for storytelling and forgetting alongside the alarming facts of animal industry. I wish I had written this book... There is no way that any compassionate and responsible person could read this book and not want to begin taking steps to end his or her contributions to factory farming. Jonathan Safron Foer is not an animal rights activist and thats not what this book is about. At the same time, it is not another Omnivores Dilemma, either. Eating Animals...
