Eating Animals: Book Review
Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer I just completed Jonathan Safran Foer's most recent book 'Eating Animals'. (He is the author of 'Everything is Illuminated' and 'Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close' - both of which I highly recommend). First, I must give some context to this - I read the majority of it while waiting for my car to have it's Spring 'tune-up', sitting across from a man who may have been a farmer (I recognized seed company-emblazed "free merch.") and a woman who appeared to be mapping out her Easter dinner menu while talking to her Mom about details of her Guinea Hen recipe. Reading this book, I wondered if they thought I was a vegan, tree hugging, PETA-loving, Green Peace-supporting, hippie freak (none of those terms, by the way, I would be the least bit offended by). Part of me wanted to ask, the other part of me was too absorbed in the book and didn't want to broach the subject. On to the...