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Jonathan Safran Foer spent much of his life oscillating between enthusiastic carnivore and occasional vegetarian. Once he started a family, the moral dimensions of food became increasingly important.
Brilliantly synthesizing philosophy, literature, science, memoir, and his own detective work, Eating Animals explores the many stories we use to justify our eating habits and how such tales can lull us into a brutal forgetting.
Part memoir and part investigative report, Eating Animals is marked by Foer's moral ferocity, unvarying generosity, humor, and distinctive style that made his previous books Everything is Illuminated, and Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close such successes.