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"Eating Animals" is the third book by American writer Jonathan Safran Foer. Published in 2009, it is an account of the author's investigation into the meat industry and factory foods.
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Jonathan Safran Foer spent much of his teenage and college years oscillating between omnivore and vegetarian. But on the brink of fatherhood-facing the prospect of having to make dietary choices on a child's behalf--his casual questioning took on an urgency. His quest for answers ultimately... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)
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- Paul Willis: Farmer who coordinates pork production for Niman Ranch
- Frank Reese: Poultry farmer
- Nicolette: Vegetarian ranger and wife of Bill Niman.
- Mario Batali: Owner of Paradise Locker Meats, a slaughterhouse in Missouri
- Knut: German polar bear
- Franz Kafka: German novelist
- Bill Niman: Owner of Niman Ranch
- George Orwell: The dog owned by the author
- Temple Grandin: Add a description of this character.
- Michael Pollan
- Celia Steele
- Jacques Derrida
- Max Brod
- Marc Bekoff
- Patrick Martins
- Benjamin Franklin
- Gene Baur
- Jeffery Taubenberger
- César Chávez
- David Pimentel
- Wendell Berry
- Nicholas Kristof
- Johan Hultin
- Walter Benjamin
- Bruce Friedrich
- Charles Vantress
- Dr. Lesley Rogers
- David Foster Wallace
- Phyllis
- Eric Schlosser
- Hitler
- Marion Nestle
- Doc
- Abraham Lincoln
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“It's much easier to be cruel than one might think.”
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“When arguing the facts, no one ever points out that the choice is between cruelty and ecological destruction, or the willing desire to eat animals.”
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“Most simply put, someone who regularly eats factory-farmed animal products cannot call himself an environmentalist without divorcing that word from its meaning.”
Jonathan (author)
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Animal agriculture makes a 40% greater contribution to global warming than all transportation in the world combined; it is the number one cause of climate change.
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omnivores contribute seven times the volume of greenhouse gases that vegans do.
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Ninety-nine percent of all land animals eaten or used to produce milk and eggs in the United States are factory farmed.
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It’s always possible to wake someone from sleep, but no amount of noise will wake someone who is pretending to be asleep.
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Most simply put, someone who regularly eats factory-farmed animal products cannot call himself an environmentalist without divorcing that word from its meaning.
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According to a study published in Consumer Reports, 83 percent of all chicken meat (including organic and antibiotic-free brands) is infected with either campylobacter or salmonella at the time of purchase.
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Shame is the work of memory against forgetting. Shame is what we feel when we almost entirely — yet not entirely — forget social expectations and our obligations to others in favor of our immediate gratification.
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Just how destructive does a culinary preference have to be before we decide to eat something else? If contributing to the suffering of billions of animals that live miserable lives and (quite often) die in horrific ways isn’t motivating, what would be? If being the number one contributor to the most serious threat facing the planet (global warming) isn’t enough, what is? And if you are tempted to put off these questions of conscience, to say not now, then when?
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From 1935 to 1995, the average weight of “broilers” increased by 65 percent, while their time-to-market dropped 60 percent and their feed requirements dropped 57 percent. To gain a sense of the radicalness of this change, imagine human children growing to be three hundred pounds in ten years, while eating only granola bars and Flintstones vitamins.
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Journalist Scott Bronstein wrote a remarkable series for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution about poultry inspection, which should be required reading for anyone considering eating chicken. He conducted interviews with nearly a hundred USDA poultry inspectors from thirty-seven plants. “Every week,” he reports, “millions of chickens leaking yellow pus, stained by green feces, contaminated by harmful bacteria, or marred by lung and heart infections, cancerous tumors, or skin conditions are shipped for sale to consumers.”
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First Sentence edit
When I was young, I would often spend the weekend at my grandmother's house.
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Authors & Contributors edit
- Jonathan Safran Foer (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Little Brown
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2009
ISBN: 0316069906
Page Count: 352
Publisher: Little Brown
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2009
ISBN: 0316069906
Page Count: 352
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: TX392 .F58 2009
- Dewey: 641.303
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Links to Supplemental Material edit
- Eating Animals: Official Website
- Jonathan Safran Foer - Wikipedia
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