Eating Animals is the first non-fiction title from American writer Jonathan Safran Foer – author of Everything Is Illuminated and Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close – and documents his conversion to vegetarianism.
Spurred on by the imminent birth of his first child, for whom he will have to make decisions about what to eat, Foer goes on a pilgrimage to discover where the food on his plate comes from, looking at the reality of meat production in the States, and factory farms that “treat living animals like dead ones”.
From battery turkey farming in California to the 28 million pounds of antibiotics pumped into animals destined for the human food chain, to the “concentrated animal feeding operations” that produce whole cities’ worth of excrement, to broiler hens artificially fattened and slaughtered only 42 days after hatching, it makes for sobering reading.
Read an extract here.
For more on the book, visit www.eatinganimals.com