Wie viele junge Menschen schwankte der Autor lange zwischen enthusiastischem Fleischgenuss und Vegetariertum hin und her. Als Familienvater dann wurden ihm die moralischen Dimensionen der Wahl seiner Nahrungsmittel mehr und mehr bewusst. Aus Literatur und Philosophie und seiner eigenen Suche nach der Wahrheit zieht er überraschende Schlussfolgerungen darüber, warum wir essen was wir essen.
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.
Autorenportrait:
Jonathan Safran Foer wurde 1977 geboren und studierte in Princeton Philosophie und Literatur. Sein erster Roman Alles ist erleuchtet war ein sensationeller Erfolg in den USA. Foer lebt und schreibt in New York an seinem zweiten Roman.
Rezension:
PRAISE FOR EATING ANIMALS : 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 J.M. Coetzee
