Book
Eating animals
Edition
1st ed.
Publication Information
New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2009.
Physical Description
vii, 341 p. ; 25 cm.
Summary
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.
Contents
- Storytelling
- All or nothing or something else
- Words/meaning
- Hiding/seeking
- Influence/speechlessness
- Slice of paradise/pieces of shit
- I do
- Storytelling.
Subjects
- Vegetarianism > Moral and ethical aspects.
- Food of animal origin.
- Animal industry > Moral and ethical aspects.
- Food industry and trade > Moral and ethical aspects.
- Food industry and trade > Social aspects.
- Food industry and trade > Health aspects > United States.
- Food habits > United States.
- Nutrition > United States.