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Eating Animals

By: Jonathan Safran Foer
Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
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To reduce risk of pandemics for ourselves, our gaze needs to turn to the health of animals.

From the bestselling author of the essential new 2019 book on animal agriculture and climate crisis: We are the Weather

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.

'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

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A worthwhile exploration by someone who loves meat into what the true cost is to us; the animals; and to the planet.

Should be mandatory reading for high schools everywhere.

“I love sushi, I love fried chicken, I love steak. But there is a limit to my love.”

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This book should be mandatory reading in high school. Well written, detailed, honest and objective.

"If nothing matters, there is nothing to save."

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A great argument against factory farming. This book is full of facts and anecdotes from farmers. An insightful read. Highly recommend.

Eating Animals

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Interesting information and story overall, but very America-centric with limited exploration of how animals might be raised and farmed in other countries. The philosophical arguments had been made many times before and were quite repetitive and boring.

Interesting but repetitive

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