Nonfiction Book Review: Eating Animals by Jonathan Foer

Courtesy Austinist  Thu, 12/10/2009 - 10:15am

Jonathan Safran Foer In Eating Animals , Jonathan Foer (Everything Is Illuminated , Extremely Loud and Extremely Close ), begins with his grandmother’s chicken soup and memories of their family holiday gatherings.

He welcomes the reader to the table. He shares his journey from lapsed to committed vegetarian. Then, in a moderate, but eyes-open style, he examines the uncomfortable-to-think-about side of meat: the raising and killing of animals.

Though Foer...



 

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