Eating Animals
 Jonathan Safran Foer at Barnes & Noble Union Square to discuss his book Eating Animals. | |
| Author | Jonathan Safran Foer |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | Non-Fiction |
| Publisher | Little, Brown and Company |
Publication date | 2009 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Pages | 352 pp (hardcover) |
| ISBN | ISBN 0316069906 Parameter error in {{ISBNT}}: invalid character |
| LC Class | TX392 .F58 2009 |
Eating Animals is the third book by the American writer Jonathan Safran Foer, published in 2009. It is a work of non-fiction.
Background
Jonathan Safran Foer spent much of his teenage and college years choosing between the omnivore and vegetarian lifestyles. When he discovered that he was to be a father, pondering the responsibility of making dietary choices on his son's behalf, he began to urgently explore his eating choices. His journey led to visits to factory farms in the middle of the night, ponderings on favorite meals from his childhood, and the questioning of some of the most elemental questions regarding the morality of eating animals. Combining philosophy, literature, science, memoir and his own detective work, Eating Animals examines the many fictions that Americans use to justify their eating habits, which ignore the very brutal conditions faced by factory farmed animals in United States.
Critical Review
Eating Animals received mixed reviews. The New Yorker reviewed the book positively, while The New York Times Book Review was ambivalent about the efficacy of Foer's arguments.