Summary
Jonathan Safran Foer: Eating Animals
If you have already read some publications dealing with animal rights, you have probably come across either a work that presents the problem exclusively in essayistic and scientific terms, or else with didactic fiction whose goal is to teach people about animal rights through the medium of fine literature.
The book Eating Animals by the extremely popular and award-winning writer Jonathan Safran Foer simultaneously adopts both approaches, combining intimate memoir prose with in the form of research work. The reader therefore has in front of him an extremely readable and intriguing literary work at the same time loaded with information about the horrors of the meat industry.
How influential this book is is also shown by the fact that Hollywood actress Natalie Portman changed her eating habits under its influence. Nothing surprising, because when the harsh facts are combined with the literary talent of one of today's most respected storytellers, it is a guarantee that you will never look at the meat on your plate the same way again.
This book is especially intriguing because of Foer's motivation to write it. Namely, while waiting for the birth of his first child, Foer decided to impartially present all the arguments for and against eating meat so that he could rationally make a decision about the optimal diet on which to raise his son.
What he discovered during his research shocked him, and it could catch many of his readers off guard, fundamentally changing their lives and making them happier, healthier and more morally aware people.
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