![]() Frankly, I can’t say that I found it disgusting the first time round, so much as sad. If I went to a slaughterhouse now I wouldn’t recoil or find it disgusting. You have to put it away for a while and come back to it-that was how I wrote it. I coped, probably like you did when reading it. Jonathan Safran Foer: Yes, it was really disturbing. Was the writing process equally disturbing, and how did you cope with that? The novelist JM Coetzee has said of Eating Animals: “Anyone who, after reading Foer’s book, continues to consume factory farm products must be without a heart, or impervious to reason, or both.” Foer currently lives in New York with his wife, the writer Nicole Krauss, and their two sons.Įlizabeth Kirkwood: Even if you know about the methods of factory farming, this is still a deeply disturbing book to read. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A combination of philosophy, science, memoir and reportage, the book examines the stories we tell ourselves to justify our eating habits and how such fictions can lull us into a brutal forgetting. Eating Animals, his first extended work of non-fiction, is a powerful and disturbing look at the moral and environmental effects of factory farming and the devastating impact our dietary choices have, on both our health and the world around us. Jonathan Safran Foer is the author of the novels Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, and Everything is Illuminated, which won the National Jewish Book Award and the Guardian First Book Award. ![]()
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