num_pages: 288
description:  The best-selling author of When Elephants Weep explores our relationship with the animals we call food.In this revelatory work Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson shows how food affects our moral selves our health and the environment. It raises questions to make us conscious of the decisions behind every bite we take: What effect does eating animals have on our land waters even global warming? What are the results of farming practicesdebeaking chickens and separating calves from their motherson animals and humans? How does the health of animals affect the health of our planet and our bodies? And uniquely as a psychoanalyst Masson investigates how denial keeps us from recognizing the animal at the end of our forkthink pig not baconand each food and those that are forbidden. The Face on intellectual psychological and emotional expertise over the last twenty years into the pivotal book of the food revolution.
language: English
title: The Face on Your Plate: The Truth About Food
publisher: W. W. Norton  Company