Eating animals - Jonathan Safran Foer

Part memoir and part investigative report, Eating Animals is the
groundbreaking moral examination of vegetarianism, farming, and the food
we eat every day that inspired the documentary of the same name.

Bestselling author Jonathan Safran Foer spent much of his life
oscillating between enthusiastic carnivore and occasional vegetarian.
For years he was content to live with uncertainty about his own dietary
choices-but once he started a family, the moral dimensions of food
became increasingly important.

Faced with the prospect
of being unable to explain why we eat some animals and not others, Foer
set out to explore the origins of many eating traditions and the
fictions involved with creating them. Traveling to the darkest corners
of our dining habits, Foer raises the unspoken question behind every
fish we eat, every chicken we fry, and every burger we grill.

Part
memoir and part investigative report, Eating Animals is a book that, in
the words of the Los Angeles Times, places Jonathan Safran Foer "at the
table with our greatest philosophers" -and a must-read for anyone who
cares about building a more humane and healthy world.