Jonathan Safran Foer is the author of Everything Is Illuminated, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close and Eating Animals. His books have been translated into thirty-six languages. Everything Is Illuminated received a National Jewish Book Award and a Guardian First Book Award, and was made into a film by Liev Schreiber. Foer lives in Brooklyn with his wife, the novelist Nicole Krauss, and their children.
"Eating Animals carefully, deliberately, takes you through every
relevant dimension of factory farming....One sees it from the
inside, the outside, the moral high ground, the dithering consumer
level, through Foer's family stories, from slaughterhouse workers,
animal behaviorists, even from defenders of the system....Foer's
aim is not to make your choice, but to inform it. He has done us
all a great service, and we, and the animals, owe him our
thanks."--Andrew Weil, MD
"A postmodern version of Peter Singer's 1975 manifesto Animal
Liberation.... Foer is the latest in a long line of distinguished
literary vegetarians."--Jennifer Schuessler, New York Times Book
Review
"Foer's case for ethical vegetarianism is wholly compelling....A
blend of solid--and discomforting--reportage with fierce advocacy
that will make committed carnivores squeal."--Kirkus Reviews
"For a hot young writer to train his sights on a subject as
unpalatable as meat production and consumption takes raw nerve.
What makes Eating Animals so unusual is vegetarian Foer's empathy
for human meat eaters, his willingness to let both factory farmers
and food reform activists speak for themselves, and his talent for
using humor to sweeten a sour argument."--O, The Oprah Magazine
"Should be compulsory reading...A genuine masterwork."--TimeOut
"Some of our finest journalists (Michael Pollan, Eric Schlosser)
and animal rights activists (Peter Singer, Temple Grandin)--not to
mention Gandhi, Jesus, Pythagoras, Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, John
Locke and Immanuel Kant (and so many others)--have hurled
themselves against the question of eating meat and the moral issues
inherent in killing animals for food. Foer, 32, in this, his first
work of nonfiction, intrepidly joins their ranks....It is the kind
of wisdom that, in all its humanity and clarity, deserves a place
at the table with our greatest philosophers."--Susan Salter
Reynolds, Los Angeles Times
"Stirring...compelling, earnest....Foer brings an invigorating
moral clarity to the topic."--Entertainment Weekly
"The everyday horrors of factory farming are evoked so vividly, and
the case against the people who run the system presented so
convincingly, that anyone who, after reading Foer's book, continues
to consume the industry's products must be without a heart, or
impervious to reason, or both."--J.M. Coetzee
"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... Without pulling any punches--factory farming
is given the full expose treatment--Foer combines an array of
facts, astutely-written anecdotes, and his furious, inward-spinning
energy to make a personal, highly entertaining take on an
increasingly visible...moral question; call it, perhaps, An
Omnivore's Dilemma."--Publishers Weekly
Eating Animals isn't just an anti-meat screed, or an impassioned
case for vegetarianism. Instead, Foer tells a story that is part
memoir and part investigative report....It's a book that takes
America's meat-dominated diet to task."NPR, All Things
Considered
Eating Animals stands as a pop-cultural landmark, destined to be
the starting point for a lot of overdue conversations."
Philadelphia Daily News
Huffington Post
Geoff Nicholson, San Francisco Chronicle
Holly Silva, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Foer's first work of nonfiction explores the meat industry and factory farming and discusses the ethical and moral implications of eating meat. (LJ 7/09) (c) Copyright 2011. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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