Jonathan Safran Foer - Eating Animals [With Pdf] (2009)

Narrated by Jonathan Todd Ross

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, Eating Animals explores the many fictions we use to justify our eating habits - from folklore to pop culture to family traditions and national myth - and how such tales can lull us into a brutal forgetting. Marked by Foer's profound moral ferocity and unvarying generosity, as well as the vibrant style and creativity that made his previous books, Everything Is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, widely loved, Eating Animals is a celebration and a reckoning, a story about the stories we've told - and the stories we now need to tell.

Jonathan Safran Foer

[font=Trebuchet MS]What the Critics Say[/font]
"The latest from novelist Foer is a surprising but characteristically brilliant memoir-investigation, boasting an exhaustively-argued account of one man-child's decade-long struggle with vegetarianism. On the eve of becoming a father, Foer takes all the arguments for and against vegetarianism a neurotic step beyond and, to decide how to feed his coming baby, investigates everything from the intelligence level of our most popular meat providers-cattle, pigs, and poultry-to the specious self-justifications (his own included) for eating some meat products and not others. Foer offers a lighthearted counterpoint to his investigation in doting portraits of his loving grandmother, and her meat-and-potatoes comfort food, leaving him to wrestle with the comparative weight of food's socio-cultural significance and its economic-moral-political meaning. Without pulling any punches-factory farming is given the full expose treatment-Foer combines an array of facts, astutely-written anecdotes, and his furious, inward-spinning energy to make a personal, highly entertaining take on an increasingly visible (and book-selling) moral question; call it, perhaps, An Omnivore's Dilemma." -- Publishers Weekly

"For a hot young writer to train his sights on a subject as unpalatable as meat production and consumption takes raw nerve. What makes Eating Animals so unusual is vegetarian Foer's empathy for human meat eaters, his willingness to let both factory farmers and food reform activists speak for themselves, and his talent for using humor to sweeten a sour argument." -- O, The Oprah Magazine

"The everyday horrors of factory farming are evoked so vividly, and the case against the people who run the system presented so convincingly, that anyone who, after reading Foer's book, continues to consume the industry's products must be without a heart, or impervious to reason, or both." -- J. M. Coetzee

"Stirring...compelling....Foer brings an invigorating moral clarity to the topic." -- Entertainment Weekly

"Eating Animals isn't just an anti-meat screed, or an impassioned case for vegetarianism. Instead, Foer tells a story that is part memoir and part investigative report....It's a book that takes America's meat-dominated diet to task." -- NPR, All Things Considered

"Foer's aim is not to make your choice, but to inform it. He has done us all a great service, and we, and the animals, owe him our thanks." -- Andrew Weil, MD

"Foer's case for ethical vegetarianism is wholly compelling....Eating Animals is a blend of solid-and discomforting-reportage with fierce advocacy that will make committed carnivores squeal." -- Kirkus Reviews

"A work of moral philosophy....The fact that Foer makes me wonder whether I'm being, at best, a hypocrite every time I eat a piece of beef suggests he's completely successful in at least one ambition." -- San Francisco Chronicle

"Extraordinarily thoughtful and intelligent." -- St. Louis Post-Dispatch

"Eating Animals stands as a pop-cultural landmark, destined to be the starting point for a lot of overdue conversations." -- Philadelphia Daily News

Amazon rating: 4.4 out of 5 (based on 203 Customer Reviews) - http://www.amazon.com/Eating-Animals-Jonathan-Safran-Foer/dp/1440762864

Audio CD Details
Publisher: Recorded Books, LLC (October 29, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1440762864
ISBN-13: 978-1440762864

[color=#4682B4]This pack includes the E-book too.

E-Book Details
Publisher: HAMISH HAMILTON
Publication Date: November 2009 (First E-book Version)
ISBN: 978-0-316-08664-6

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Website - http://www.eatinganimals.com/
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[font=Trebuchet MS]Get Active[/font]
If you've already read Eating Animals, you know that factory farming - which accounts for virtually all meat sold in supermarkets and prepared in restaurants - is almost certainly the single worst thing that humans do to the environment. Changing the way our food is produced begins with us; with the choices we make every day.

Here are 10 things you can do to make a difference:

[font=Trebuchet MS]1.[/font] Read Eating Animals and ask your friends, family, and coworkers to do the same. http://www.eatinganimals.com/site/book/

[font=Trebuchet MS]2.[/font] In the words of Farm Forward: Eat conscientiously-as few animals as possible, ideally none. More than 99 percent of animal products are produced under factory farm conditions. http://www.farmforward.com/farming-forward/food-choices

[font=Trebuchet MS]3.[/font] Support pending state and federal legislation to improve standards for farms. Learn more about legislation aimed to improve conditions for farm animals [http://www.hsus.org/farm/camp/legislation.html/] and legislation that addresses the effects of farms on our environment [http://www.waterkeeper.org/ht/d/Contents/cids/275,1383/pid/201/] and communities [http://www.sustainabletable.org/issues/community/].

[font=Trebuchet MS]4.[/font] Tell Congress that you want to support alternatives to factory farming. Every year, agribusiness receives billions of dollars in subsidies and grants that make factory farming possible. http://fdn.actionkit.com/cms/sign/Factory_Farm_Bailout/#1

[font=Trebuchet MS]5.[/font] Have a conversation with the people who produce your food. If you aren't allowed to see where your food comes from, you probably shouldn't be eating it. http://www.eatwellguide.org/i.php?pd=Home

[font=Trebuchet MS]6.[/font] Stay informed about current issues in the fight for more humane and sustainable farming. Sign up to receive newsletters from groups like Farm Forward http://www.farmforward.com and the Humane Society of the United States http://hsus.org/You can also follow many of your favorite groups on Twitter.

[font=Trebuchet MS]7.[/font] Spread the word! Talk about Eating Animals with your friends, family and colleagues, and encourage them to read up on and these important issues themselves.

[font=Trebuchet MS]8.[/font] Support organizations working for change. Check out Jonathan's favorite organizations.

* Farm Forward - http://www.farmforward.com/
* Farm Sanctuary - http://www.farmsanctuary.org/
* Food and Water Watch - http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/
* Food Democracy Now! - http://www.fooddemocracynow.org/
* Humane Society of the United States - http://www.hsus.org/
* People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals - http://www.peta.org/
* Sierra Club - http://www.sierraclub.org/
* Sustainable Table - http://www.sustainabletable.org/
* Waterkeeper Alliance - http://www.waterkeeperalliance.org/

[font=Trebuchet MS]9.[/font] Buy products from the most progressive farmers in America. Sustainable Table's Eat Well Guide http://www.eatwellguide.org/i.php?pd=Home provides an extensive list of small farmers. We also encourage you to support Frank Reese, whose Good Shepherd Poultry Ranch is featured in Eating Animals. http://www.reeseturkeys.com/

[font=Trebuchet MS]10.[/font] Organize your friends and family to place large orders from progressive farmers. For small farmers like Frank Reese, shipping is by far the most expensive aspect of bringing their products to your table. By placing large orders together with your friends, family and colleagues, anyone can afford to eat the most humane and sustainable products in America.

Source: http://www.eatinganimals.com/site/resources/
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Part 1 Duration - 05:16:21 [217 MB]
Part 2 Duration - 04:55:24 [202 MB]

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