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Eating animals / Jonathan Safran Foer.

Van Pelt Library TX392 .F58 2009
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Foer, Jonathan Safran, 1977-
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Vegetarianism--Philosophy.
Vegetarianism.
Physical Description:
vii, 341 pages ; 25 cm
Edition:
First edition.
Place of Publication:
New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2009.
Summary:
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.
Contents:
Storytelling
All or nothing or something else
Words/meaning
Hiding/seeking
Influence/speechlessness
Slices of paradise/pieces of shit
I do
Storytelling.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780316069908
0316069906
OCLC:
318877983

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