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Jonathan Safran Foer spent much of his life oscillating between enthusiastic carnivore and occasional vegetarian, but once he started a family, the moral dimensions of food became increasingly more 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, all through Foer's lens of the moral ferocity, unvarying generosity, humor, and distinctive style that made his previous books Everything is Illuminated, and Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close such successes.
"A postmodern version of Peter Singer's 1975 manifesto Animal Liberation. Foer is the latest in a long line of distinguished literary vegetarians." -- New York Times Book Review