Like many young Americans, Jonathan Safran Foer spent much of
his teenage and college years oscillating between enthusiastic
carnivore and occasional vegetarian. As he became a husband, and
then a father, the moral dimensions of eating became increasingly
important to him. Faced with the prospect of being unable to
explain why we eat some animals and not others, Foer set out to
explore the origins of many eating traditions and the fictions
involved with creating them.
Traveling to the darkest corners of our dining habits, Foer
raises the unspoken question behind every fish we eat, every
chicken we fry, and every burger we grill. Part memoir and part
investigative report, Eating Animals is a book that, in the
words of the Los Angeles Times, places Jonathan Safran Foer
"at the table with our greatest philosophers."
關於作者:
Jonathan Safran Foer is the author of Everything Is
Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. His
books have been translated into thirty-six languages. Everything
Is Illuminated received a National Jewish Book Award and a
Guardian First Book Award, and was made into a film by Liev
Schreiber. Foer lives in Brooklyn.