Eating Animals

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Eating Animals is a riveting exposure; which presents the gut-wrenching truth about the price paid by the environment, the government, the Third World and the animals themselves in order to put meat on our tables more quickly and conveniently than ever before.

Interweaving a variety of monologues and balancing humour and suspense with informed rationalism, Eating Animals is as much a novelistic account of an intellectual journey as it is a fresh and open look at the ethical debate around meat-eating. Unlike most other books on the subject, Eating Animals also explores the possibilites for those who do eat meat to do so more responsibly, making this an important book not just for vegetarians, but for anyone who is concerned about the ramifications and significance of their chosen lifestyle.

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Best book on the topic I've read so far. A good read for almost anyone who cares for their own health, the health of the planet and animal rights. Very convincing whatever your diet is.

这个属于简装里面比较差的了 比一般的再生纸还要薄一些 排版也很不喜欢 密密麻麻 字很小 字体却很粗 整个糊在一起 费眼睛

This book was a catalyst where I wasn't looking for one. After the first 35 pages a light bulb started lighting up...and I feared my life was about to change. I've never written a book review, but after reading what Jonathon learned in his 3 + years of researching factory farming, I had to tell others to read it. He provides serious, horrific and real information. I never knew about factory farming until I read his book and googled 'factory farming' on the web. It was all over from there. I started watching those videos on what we do to animals-the ones we don't want to see-and I could not stomach another bite of an animal again. I loved meat, ate it easily 3xday for all of my life, grew up near those green pastures in northern California where cows graze all day. Wow. Was I disconnected and fooled...

What I felt, was that he did not preach about not eating animals. He presented information that I could personally relate to and grasp. For me, Jonathon felt like a messenger...where many have failed to bring light to what humans are systematically doing to animals every moment of every day. He provided very important information about 99% of the animals I used to buy and eat for my family and friends. I had no idea that the US alone consumes 10 billion animals PER YEAR. I finally woke up. One chicken has 2 wings(that they never use)--how many chicken wings come in a basket at a restaurant-6? 12? 24? I used to throw meat away after getting full. I was throwing away a life-a wasted one who suffered in life and in death. What frightened me more about this book is why is an author bringing this info to me? Where are the ongoing news specials on this?

Jonathon's personal tone, statistical/historical data, research team, true accounts from the field, letters, etc., left me no choice than to agree with him. Of course, he is not a farm owner, hasn't worked on a farm, and can't come from a place of truly understanding 'farming'. And he doesn't shun farming, he actually helped me realize that the farming I thought ALL animals came from--humane ones--are actually a miniscule percentage of all farms. His writing is heartwarming, but gut-wrenching. His occasional wit about the insanity of factory farming made me laugh quietly, but kept me awake at night thinking & fretting.

Eating Animals forced me to realize the terrifying component of being lied to by these factory farms and the megacorporations that support them. I used to pay extra for organic milk & cage free eggs because I believed in Horizon Farms. I thought I was making a better choice for the animals. Ultimately, the author woke me up from a deep, deep sleep. As he eloquently presents about turkeys, how can we celebrate 'thanks' and 'family' or whatever tradition you have on Thanksgiving while the main course never saw the sun, felt the earth, a breath of fresh air, had his beak seared off with a hot blade and no pain killers, lived on top of thousands of other turkey's and their excrement, thrown into trucks for transport hundreds of miles without food or water, and never had one true moment of 'love.' If having a better understanding of what love means to you, read this book.

Eating Animals doesn't convince readers to not eat meat, dairy, or fish, but is framed around three ideas: that our farming practices have become increasingly unethical, harmful to our environment, and dangerous to our bodies. His empathetic ways of showing these unapologetic truths, along with his witty sense of humor, lets even the most close-minded people enjoy this book. There are intense and grotesque descriptions of turkey, beef, egg, pork, and fish farming, but they're important. We see from this book the main point: factory farms have taken over our food industry and are awful in numerous ways to humans and animals. With Foer's vivid descriptions, enjoyable narrations, and humor, I recommended this book to meat-eaters and vegetarians alike. It's not preachy, but makes a controversial topic that many of us turn our heads to something so impactful. He includes letters from factory farmers and descriptions of his own three year investigation, and we are learning right along with him in an entertaining and capturing way.

A simply written, yet perfectly crafted book (I have never highlighted as many powerful and evocative sentences in a single book before!). It makes a compelling argument both for and against. And, for once, tackles the issue holistically.
It is the first thing that has compelled me to take a firm stance within my own framework. And it has encouraged me to be vocal with others.
This book should be compulsory reading for everyone who purchases food. Meaning, yes, just about everybody!
Thank you Jonathan Safran Foer for another masterpiece. From someone who doesn't read non-fiction :)

It is very hard to write a review of this book without expressing one's own view of the ethics of meat eating, as most of the reviews - and many of the comments to some of these reviews - demonstrate. In fact, it is impossible to really separate the two when discussing a book that is both so personal in its narrative, and relentlessly focused on universal eating habits. My review is no different.

Taking a stab at the book itself: I am not familiar with Foer's fictional works, but his background is evident as he lends the whole subject a compelling narrative and style that really make "Eating Animals" quite a page-turner (I read it in a day and a half). To those familiar with this debate, the statistics are not really new, nor are the horror stories of factory farming. What is new is the personalization of his approach (I too am a father and could relate to the decisions he faces), and, most effectively, his unflinching, relentless, repetitious focus on the reality of consuming 99% of the available meat today: The environmental damage, the suffering, the waste, the lies and corruption, the exploitation, the veil of secrecy amongst the industrial farming concerns. It is Foer's relentless focus of these central issues and his unwillingness to avoid the obvious question (How can it be ethical to consume meat under these conditions?) that I believe distinguish this book and make it most effective.

So what does this mean to this reviewer in terms of his personal habits? Well, I am a long-time consumer of meat. I love everything about it in terms of taste, texture, variety, preparation, culture, etc. I am a serious hobbyist-cook, and meat has played a central role in what I prepare...Though largely tolerant/indifferent to others' eating habits, I have been largely turned off by the vegetarian and (especially) vegan communities as a whole. I have long viewed veganism as another example of our (U.S.) puritanical tradition of extreme reaction and self-denial to complex moral issues, married up with our (U.S.) lack of a strong, traditional food culture (go to somewhere like France or Spain, or Vietnam, and the difference is night and day). That said, when I read "The Omnivore's Dilemma" a few years ago, I did change many of my habits, and my purchases became almost exclusively organic for ethical reasons. However, like Pollan, I continued to eat meat, though shifting to more ethically raised and killed sources.

Now having recently completed Foer's book, I have yet to consume meat, and really this is because Foer's central "decision" is so unavoidable: Either you don't eat meat, or you support a lot of animal pain and suffering. I believe meat-eating can be ethical, but right now, in our world, it is really just too screwed up and sick to be patronized. So bringing together the book itself and my personal reaction to it, I would say this book is profoundly "impactful" (not a word - I know), if my reaction is representative of anything. I am still contemplating meat consumption for the long term, as deep down I think there is something fundamentally "not right" and borderline neurotic about complete self-denial of meat - I mean, it is so closely tied to our evolution and culture, and its presence is strong in almost every single human society, indigenous or otherwise. But until this settles in my mind, it feels better to just say "no". And ultimately, how it "feels" is probably going to be the ultimate deciding factor for me, because I don't believe ethical debates are ultimately solved through pure logic...Foer seems to say this as well...

I do have one big issue with "Eating Animals", and that is with regards to the future of killing animals for food (which I doubt will ever go away): How will the more acceptable animal food operations that Foer admires - like Frank Reese's turkey farm - ever develop into something beyond the fringe, when ethically minded people go straight to non-meat consumption? It does seem a bit disingenuous to promote these meat farms and then say you will not patronize them, as (SPOILER ALERT) Foer does.

So I am no longer eating meat for some time (maybe forever) as a result of this book, which is I believe is a testament to the power of the author's words. My only pressing issue now is what do I feed my cat?

As a vegan concerned about the environmental impact and ethics of meat production, I was already aware of most of the practices described in this book before I picked it up. So for me the most interesting part is Foer's reaction to this information, the internal struggle in his head, and the conclusions he drew from it all.

The book has quite a lot to offer: a good overview of the different ways meat is produced in the US, and numerous interviews with people from all sides of the story - from a factory farm operator, defending the necessity of such methods, up to a PETA member making a case for veganism. Such variety of views, together with the wide range of aspects of meat production that Foer tried to cover, make the subject difficult to handle from the point of view of book structure. Foer does this pretty well overall, but I'm still not a fan of the topic organization. Some chapters were better than others, but there were a bit too many cases of jumping around for my liking. I found myself wondering what's the main message of the book. Early on, Foer points out that this book isn't here to argue for vegetarianism. And that's true. The main message is a case against factory farming. However, while I completely agree with its conclusion, it's not a particularly strong case. In the end, for me, the vegan in me is happy with all the opposition to the idea of factory farming, but the scientist in me is rather unhappy about the way the argument is structured...

Foer's argument oscillates between an evidence-based evaluation of the environmental impact and a moral argument against raising animals who can't reproduce and whose bones can't support them. He describes the environmental damage done by these factory farms, and the very high concentration of animals kept there. To me, it would make sense to then assess the environmental impact per weight of the meat produced, which could then be compared against "traditional" animal farms, while somehow trying to account for the externalities such as the sharp increase in incidence of drug-resistant strains of various diseases, and the simpler effects on the neighborhood of these farms (such as strong smells). But that's not what Foer does. Instead, he switches completely to an ethical case, talking about how wrong it feels to do all these things to animals and that they deserve our respect. Yet he still isn't opposed to the idea of eating meat, which makes the ethical argument a bit shaky. So we have a responsibility to treat these animals relatively well, except that we still get to kill them at a young age? Where do we draw the line? Foer for example feels very bad at what is done in the factory farms, but finds killing a teen (in human age terms) cow for steak acceptable. I think that the choice to draw the line at this particular point is non-obvious, and would require a lot more justification and discussion, which alas cannot be found in this book. Don't get me wrong, I'm not dismissing his argument, but rather suggesting that it needs work to be developed.

I was disappointed that the book failed to discuss the difference between vegetarians and vegans, and the importance of those differences. Surely exploitation of animals in factory farms is just as bad when it isn't the meat that's the final product. But given that Foer is a vegetarian and not a vegan, I'm guessing this is a part of his journey that's still ahead of him personally.

I very much enjoyed the topic of the social role of sharing meals, and how this is affected when one stops eating meat. This is something I've been though, so I was curious to find out more. Unfortunately, this topic is also not sufficiently developed, in the end being not much more than a few ideas the author had when briefly contemplating some family relationships. I must say I wish he (or anyone else, really) wrote a book about this topic.

Overall, this book is a good conversation starter, a good choice for a first book on this topic, a fairly-detailed first look into the world of animal agriculture. If you haven't spent much time thinking about where your meat comes from, this is a very good place to start. If this is a topic that you've been regularly researching and are relatively knowledgeable about, then I'd say move on, there isn't much to see her. Unless you want to buy it for your omnivorous friends, of course :-)

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