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Eating Animals

If nothing is sacred, there is nothing to save.

Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer

August 12, 2020 by LadyStardust 1 Comment

I don’t know that I can offer a traditional (or unbiased) review of this book, because it has become deeply personal for me, but I’ll try. I officially stopped “eating animals” because of Eating Animals. This is the only book I frequently re-read, because it means so much to me, and is a bolstering reminder of why I choose to live the way I do. It’s been a transformative and eye-opening book for me, and I highly recommend it for anyone who’s ever felt uneasy […]

Filed Under: Cooking/Food, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Jonathan Safran Foer, meat, Morality, Philosophy, vegan, vegetarian

LadyStardust's CBR12 Review No:1 · Genres: Cooking/Food, Non-Fiction · Tags: Jonathan Safran Foer, meat, Morality, Philosophy, vegan, vegetarian ·
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On the (not?) eating of animals

March 31, 2014 by bonnie Leave a Comment

I know that JSF is a polarizing author. You either love him or you hate him. You find his fiction avant-garde or too pretentious. I liked him a lot in college, though since my exposure to contemporary fiction has widened, I don’t LOVE him the way I used to. But I’m still in the favorable camp towards his fiction. But I think Eating Animals may be his most compelling work to date. When he found out he was going to be a father, Foer went through […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: bonnie, Jonathan Safran Foer, vegetarian

bonnie's CBR6 Review No:19 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: bonnie, Jonathan Safran Foer, vegetarian ·
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