Eating Animals

Informationen zum Autor Jonathan Safran Foer is the author of Everything Is Illuminated, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close and Eating Animals. His books have been translated into thirty-six languages. Everything Is Illuminated received a National Jewish Book Award and a Guardian First Book Award, and was made into a film by Liev Schreiber. Foer lives in Brooklyn with his wife, the novelist Nicole Krauss, and their children. Klappentext Jonathan Safran Foer spent much of his teenage and college years oscillating between omnivore and vegetarian. But on the brink of fatherhood-facing the prospect of having to make dietary choices on a child's behalf-his casual questioning took on an urgency His quest for answers ultimately required him to visit factory farms in the middle of the night, dissect the emotional ingredients of meals from his childhood, and probe some of his most primal instincts about right and wrong. Brilliantly synthesizing philosophy, literature, science, memoir and his own detective work, ...

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan S Foer, Jonathan Safran Foer
• Publisher: Hachette US
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2010
• EAN: 9780316127165
• ISBN: 978-0-316-12716-5
• No. of pages: 341
• Weight: 175 g
• Subjects: Guides > Food & drink > General, dictionaries, tables; Guides > Health > Diet; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Society; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; Vegetarische Ernährung, Ernährung, Fleisch