Eating animals
By: Jonathan Safran Foer.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 341
ISBN-13: 9780316069908
Subjects: Vegetarianism -- Philosophy; Vegetarianism
Description: Brilliantly synthesizing philosophy, literature, science, memoir and his own detective work, "Eating Animals" explores the many fictions we use to justify our eating habits--from folklore to pop culture to family traditions and national myth--and how such tales can lull us into a brutal forgetting.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Storytelling; title: All or nothing or something else; title: Words/meaning; title: Hiding/seeking; title: Influence/speechlessness; title: Slice of paradise/pieces of shit; title: I do; title: Storytelling.