Eating Animals

· Penguin UK
4.7
38 reviews
Ebook
352
Pages

About this ebook

Discover Jonathan Safran Foer's eye-opening and life-changing account of the meat we eat.

'Should be compulsory reading. A genuine masterwork. Read this book. It will change you' Time Out


Eating Animals is the most original and urgent book on the subject of food written this century. It will change the way you think, and change the way you eat. For good.

Whether you're flirting with veganuary, trying to cut back on animal consumption, or a lifelong meat-eater, you need to read this book.

From the bestselling author of the essential book on animal agriculture and climate crisis: We are the Weather.

'Shocking, incandescent, brilliant' The Times

'Everyone who eats flesh should read this book' Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall

'Universally compelling. Jonathan Safran Foer's book changed me' Natalie Portman

'Gripping [and] original. A brilliant synthesis of argument, science and storytelling. One of the finest books ever written on the subject of eating animals' Times Literary Supplement

'If you eat meat and fish, you should read this book. Even if you don't, you should. It might bring the beginning of a change of heart about all living things' Joanna Lumley

Ratings and reviews

4.7
38 reviews
Jamie O'Sullivan
July 9, 2019
Brilliant book. The author weaves the factual with the human narrative expertly, dealing with the role meat plays in our lives while looking at why this can and must change.
5 people found this review helpful
Nathalie Orengo
February 1, 2014
Although I'm a vegetarian now, this book is not about turning you into one but more about giving you the proper information so you can make the correct decision for yourself foodwise. I think it is a must read, everyone should what they are actually eating.
7 people found this review helpful
Dave Andrew
January 24, 2021
A very well balanced perspective on this hugely important subject. Read it and Everything will be Illuminated.
1 person found this review helpful

About the author

Jonathan Safran Foer is the author of Everything Is Illuminated, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Eating Animals and Here I Am. He has also edited a new modern edition of the sacred Jewish Haggadah. Everything Is Illuminated won several literary prizes, including the National Jewish Book Award and the Guardian First Book Award. He edited the anthology A Convergence of Birds: Original Fiction and Poetry Inspired by the Work of Joseph Cornell, and his stories have been published in the Paris Review, Conjunctions and the New Yorker. Jonathan Safran Foer teaches Creative Writing at New York University.

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