"The everyday horrors of industrial farming are vividly recalled here, and the arguments against those who orchestrate this particular system are presented so convincingly that anyone who has read Foer's book and continues to consume products from the industry either has no heart or does not understand logic, or both."
(J. M. Coetzee, author of "The Lives of Animals")

Jonathan Safran Foer spent his teenage and college years wavering between carnivorous and vegetarian diets. But on the threshold of his new life as a father, faced with the prospect of having to decide for himself what diet his son will follow, his casual contemplation took on a new, urgent dimension. Searching for answers, Foer was forced to visit industrial farms in the middle of the night, analyze all the emotional materials from which his childhood meals were made, and scrutinize some of his most primal instincts about what is right and wrong.

Combining philosophy, literature, science, and autobiography with unique intelligence, "Eating Animals" explores the numerous stories we use to justify our dietary habits - from folk tales to family traditions and national myths - and how these stories can lull us to sleep and plunge us into oblivion. With the characteristic intensity and deepening of ethical issues, with the generosity and vivid writing that made Foer's previous books so beloved, Eating Animals is both a hymn and a call, a story about the stories we have been told - and the stories we must now tell in turn.