EATING ANIMALS
Book ID/图书代码： 12844009B33481
English Summary/英文概要： A provocative exploration of what we eat, and why, by the bestselling author of Everything is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.
Jonathan Safran Foer spent much of his teenage and college years oscillating between carnivore and vegetarian.
As he became a husband and a father, he kept returning to two questions: Why do we eat animals? And would we eat them if we knew how they got to our dinner plates? Brilliantly synthesizing philosophy, literature, science, and his own undercover 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 justify a brutal ignorance. Marked by Foer’s profound moral ferocity and unvarying generosity, as well as the vibrant style and creativity that made his previous two books huge bestsellers, EATING ANIMALS is a celebration and a reckoning, a story about the stories we’ve told - and the stories we now need to tell. EATING ANIMALS is an exposure and examination of our relationship - both practical and ethical - with meat. The book will present the gut-wrenching truth about the price paid by the environment, the government, the Third World, and the animals themselves in order to put meat on our tables more cheaply and conveniently than ever before. Passionate, informative, rational, convincing and entertaining, EATING ANIMALS will be a ’Fast Food Nation’ for anyone who cares about the way we eat now.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 在儿子出生后，美国知名作家弗尔决心为了自己和家人，重新审视“吃动物”这件事——
我们吃的肉到底是什么？它们从哪儿来？如何被生产？那些动物处境如何，与我们有何关系？我们吃肉有哪些经济、社会和环境影响？
弗尔结合权威资料和数据，从文化、伦理、生态等角度，全面而细致地梳理“吃动物”这一议题。他实地走访（包括暗访）美国现代肉食工业的各个环节，记录了从流水线工人、工业化农场主、动保人士到农业专家的观点交锋，呈现工业化养殖不为人知的一面，探讨每一个汉堡、每一块炸鸡、每一条鱼背后的现实危机和道德困境。
★ “美国最优秀青年小说家”乔纳森·萨福兰·弗尔的非虚构佳作。
★ 一部美国现代肉食工业的调查备忘录，一次关乎“我们是谁”的内心之旅。
★ “吃动物”不仅是一个重要的哲学议题，还是一项年产值超过1400亿美元的产业，涉及全球1/3的土地，深刻影响海洋生态系统(DB)
Awards/获奖情况：Praise
’The everyday horrors of factory farming are evoked so vividly, and the case against the people who run the system presented so convincingly, that anyone who, after reading Foer’s book, continues to consume the industry’s products must be without a heart, or impervious to reason, or both.’--J M Coetzee, Nobel and Booker prize winning author
’A blend of solid - and discomforting - reportage with fierce advocacy that will make committed carnivores squeal.’
Kirkus Reviews
’EATING ANIMALS carefully, deliberately, takes you through every relevant dimension of factory farming: the cruelty, the environmental destruction, the dehumanization of workers (sadism inflicted on animals for the workers’ amusement is extraordinarily common in these factories). One sees it from the inside, the outside, the moral high ground, the dithering consumer level, through Foer’s family stories, from slaughterhouse workers, animal behaviorists, even from defenders of the system.Foer’s aim is not to make your choice, but to inform it. He has done us all a great service, and we, and the animals, owe him our thanks.’
Dr. Andrew Weil, The Huffington Post
’Foer employs an adroit blend of storytelling, philosophical reflection and rigorous investigative journalism to illustrate ’how our food choices impact the ecology of our planet and the lives of its animals,’ and to persuade us toward unflinching self- examination in how we choose our nourishment. He admirably presents fact and science, while pricking the reader’s conscience by recounting his own probing questions about dietary choice and moral acceptability. EATING ANIMALS is ’an argument for vegetarianism, but it’s also an argument for another, wiser animal agriculture and more honorable omnivory.’
Bookpage
’Jonathan Safran Foer’s book EATING ANIMALS changed me from a twenty-year vegetarian to a vegan activist.’
Natalie Portman (actress), The Huffington Post
’EATING ANIMALS is part personal journey, part modern muckraking and a surprisingly candid and empathetic book on food. Foer doesn’t preach but instead invites us to have a conversation with family farmers and factory farmers, animal activists and slaughterhouse workers. His book is important not because he has all the answers (he often acknowledges his own uncertainty), but because he asks the right questions and makes it impossible for us not to ask them too.’
Aaron Gross (founder of Farm Forward), The Huffington Post
Praise for Eating Animals:
A spirited, emotional and well-researched investigation into what our taste for flesh really means. -- Observer
Deserves a place at the table with our greatest philosophers. -- Los Angeles Times
Gripping, horrible, wonderful, breathtaking, original. A brilliant synthesis of argument, science and storytelling. One of the finest books ever written on the subject of eating animals. -- Times Literary Supplement (TLS)
About the Author/作者介绍： 乔纳森·萨福兰·弗尔
1977年出生，从普林斯顿大学毕业后，曾短暂就读于西奈山医学院。之后辍学，做过停尸间助手、珠宝销售员、农场看管员和捉刀写手。
2002年，首部长篇小说《了了》获全美犹太人图书奖和《卫报》首作奖。
2005年，长篇小说《特别响 非常近》入围国际IMPAC都柏林文学奖。改编的同名电影由汤姆·汉克斯主演，获奥斯卡金像奖“最佳影片”提名。
2019年，非虚构作品《我们就是天气：拯救地球从早餐开始》获《金融时报》年度最佳图书、《卫报》年度饮食类最佳图书。
曾入选多项媒体评选，包括《格兰塔》杂志“美国最优秀青年小说家”，《纽约客》杂志“20位40岁以下最佳作家”，《前进》杂志“50位最具影响力的犹太裔美国人”等。
Jonathan Safran Foer is the author of Everything Is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. His books have been translated into thirty-six languages. Everything Is Illuminated received a National Jewish Book Award and a Guardian First Book Award, and was made into a film by Liev Schreiber. Foer lives in Brooklyn.
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Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：Rights Sold:
Dutch - Ambo Anthos Uitgevers
Italian - Ugo Guanda Editore S.p.A
Korean - Minumsa Publishing Co., Ltd.
Danish - Tiderne Skifter Forlag A/S
German - Verlag Kiepenheuer & Witsch
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