Eating Animals
$25.39
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
29 January 2013
Summary
A passionate expose that serves up the truth about the meat on our plate - and where it’s come from.
“I simply wanted to know - for myself and my family - what meat is. Where does it come from? How is it produced? What are the economic, social and environmental effects? Are there animals that it is straightforwardly right to eat? Are there situations in which not eating animals is wrong? If this began as a personal quest, it didn’t stay that way for long …”
Jonathan Safran Foe…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141031934 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 014103193X |
| Author: | Jonathan Safran Foer |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Edition: | 2nd |
| Release Date: | 29 January 2013 |
| Weight: | 243g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 22mm |
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Critics Review
A spirited, emotional and well-researched investigation into what our taste for flesh really means
A spirited, emotional and well-researched investigation into what our taste for flesh really means Observer Deserves a place at the table with our greatest philosophers Los Angeles Times Shocking, incandescent, brilliant The Times Everyone who eats flesh should read this book – Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall Extremely smart and incredibly curious Vanity Fair Gripping, horrible, wonderful, breathtaking, original. A brilliant synthesis of argument, science and storytelling. One of the finest books ever written on the subject of eating animals – The Times Literary Supplement
About The Author
Jonathan Safran Foer
Jonathan Safran Foer is the author of Everything Is Illuminated, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Eating Animals and Here I Am. He has also edited a new modern edition of the sacred Jewish Haggadah. Everything Is Illuminated won several literary prizes, including the National Jewish Book Award and the Guardian First Book Award. He edited the anthology A Convergence of Birds- Original Fiction and Poetry Inspired by the Work of Joseph Cornell, and his stories have been published in the Paris Review, Conjunctions and the New Yorker. Jonathan Safran Foer teaches Creative Writing at New York University.
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