![]() ![]() ![]() It’s a shame that, after he rips the meat industry apart in a manner that seems valiant and deserved, Foer misses the opportunity to propose political action. He politely encourages, though by no means bullies, the reader to follow suit. ![]() In exposing the multiple abuses of animals at factory farms, and the hazards these tremendously unhygienic, manure-filled facilities pose to public health, Foer, an acclaimed young novelist (“Everything Is Illuminated,” “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close”), delves into his personal conversion to vegetarianism. ![]() The reality of the industrial animal farm, typically a compound of gigantic, windowless, feces-mucky sheds in which tens of thousands of animals are tightly confined, is vividly and trenchantly documented in Jonathan Safran Foer’s best-selling anti-meat manifesto, “Eating Animals,” now out in paperback. Nine billion of these are killed in the United States, under a hideous system known as “factory farming.” At these farms, barnyard animals don’t roam in the sunshine, nor is there a kindly farmer to take care of them, as in the books we read to our children. First Back Bay paperback edition, 341 pages.Įvery year the world slaughters 50 billion chickens. ![]()
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