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Eating Animals
Eating Animals
Jonathan Safran Foer & Jonathan Foer
Jonathan Safran Foer spent much of his teenage and college years oscillatingbetween carnivore and vegetarian. As he became a husband and a father he keptreturning to two questions Why do we eat animals? And would we eat them if weknew how they got on our dinner plates? Brilliantly synthesizing philosophyliterature science and his own undercover detective work Eating Animalsexplores the many fictions we use to justify our eating habitsfrom folklore topop culture to family traditions and national mythand how