Eating Animals
A father's investigation of factory farming, animal suffering, and family food traditions tests whether a caring Thanksgiving can coexist with the way meat is produced.
8 parts, about 18 minutes to read.
At a glance
- Author
- Jonathan Safran Foer
- Parts
- 8 parts
- Reading time
- about 18 minutes
- The whole book
- Also to read in full
What the summary covers
- Storytelling: Food and Family2 min
- All or Nothing or Something Else2 min
- Words and Meaning2 min
- Hiding and Seeking2 min
- Influence and Speechlessness2 min
- Slices of Paradise, Pieces of Shit3 min
- I Do3 min
- Storytelling: The Table We Make2 min
Read it alongside
- Goes deeperDo Fish Feel Pain?
Foer questions industrial fishing through fish suffering; Braithwaite adds tests of disrupted attention and its restoration after pain relief, explaining why injury reflexes alone cannot establish felt pain.
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