Eating Animals

A tough read to get through. Uses emotionally driven rhetoric to pull at the readers logic and heart strings from beginning to end. Very fact driven. Interesting. As a Canadian, the facts don't carry across the boarder (though it certainly condemns many of our US neighbours!).

True life-changing books are extremely rare, and Eating Animals is one of them. Jonathan Safran Foer has taken 3 years of his life to get to the bottom of this question, and the result is a captivating, haunting, and mind boggling reading. Animal and Food lovers, this book is for you, an ABSOLUTE MUST!

If you've ever felt conflicted about eating animals then this book might just push you over the edge. At the very least you will give much more thought to what you're eating.

Jonathan Safran Foer could've taken the route many others have taken and simply presented the facts about factory farming (which speak for themselves). But framing it in terms of a personal journey of discovery makes its impact that much greater.

In the end, while he himself becomes vegetarian, he stops short of saying everyone else should become one too. His main point is that we all have to make choices about what's important to us, and whatever we decide our actions should reflect what's important to us.

Aside from a few short-lived flirtations with vegetarianism, I've eaten meat my entire life. And I never gave much thought to it. I've known about all the horrible practices of factory-farming from PETA newsletters I read in my teenage years, but I always seemed to push it to the back of mind and continued eating meat.

Reading this book has definitely changed me. For me to eat meat now would require me to forget about the pain and suffering I'm causing. This book has strengthened my resolve not to forget anymore.

Having heard about this book on Ellen, I decided to look into it. Having read it, i think that this is one of the most insightful, eye-opening and mind-blowing books ever written. It is a sometimes painfully honest account of where our food comes from, and how the production of our meat affects our world, and our bodies. It doesn't harp or push vegetarianism, it just provides truth and allows the reader to think for themselves. I think that it touches on topics that need to be brought to light, and that more people should use it to become educated about the food they eat and the world they live in.