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marzipantorte's review against another edition
dark
hopeful
informative
reflective
tense
medium-paced
4.25
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Gore
ghostly_monstera's review against another edition
challenging
informative
reflective
sad
4.75
This book was hard to read: captivating, real, and a reminder that we need communal spaces to be curious and prosses things with other people. Foer does a fantastic job of simply presenting information without attacking anyone. He just wants to share the information he has gathered on the journey of writing this book.
And we desperately need information. How can we care for a planet when we know nothing about how systemically we are treating it? Food is wrapped up in culture, history, and identify. How do you unpack all that food can mean to people?
I genuinely loved this book. I never felt like Foer was preaching to me or angry with me. But he was asking questions I didn't yet have the knowledge to ask but desperately needed the answers to. He discusses the lives of animals (obviously) but he also takes a look at the people surrounding the industry. We get letters from a factory farmer, a small turkey farmer, a vegetarian cattle rancher, a vegan slaughterhouse builder, and many others. The more voices we hear, the clearer the picture will become.
We need to hear stories. We need to listen without presumption and hear how those big life questions and choices impact those people.
I do wish he would have mentioned that other cultures and those of other beliefs have difference access and ideas to eating animals, but he did acknowledge that the scope of his research would be in America.
Over all, a much needed book that encourages us to ask questions about the world around us and act on the answers we find.
And we desperately need information. How can we care for a planet when we know nothing about how systemically we are treating it? Food is wrapped up in culture, history, and identify. How do you unpack all that food can mean to people?
I genuinely loved this book. I never felt like Foer was preaching to me or angry with me. But he was asking questions I didn't yet have the knowledge to ask but desperately needed the answers to. He discusses the lives of animals (obviously) but he also takes a look at the people surrounding the industry. We get letters from a factory farmer, a small turkey farmer, a vegetarian cattle rancher, a vegan slaughterhouse builder, and many others. The more voices we hear, the clearer the picture will become.
We need to hear stories. We need to listen without presumption and hear how those big life questions and choices impact those people.
I do wish he would have mentioned that other cultures and those of other beliefs have difference access and ideas to eating animals, but he did acknowledge that the scope of his research would be in America.
Over all, a much needed book that encourages us to ask questions about the world around us and act on the answers we find.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal death, Gore, Death, Animal cruelty, and Blood
lcoll93's review against another edition
challenging
informative
medium-paced
3.75
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Graphic: Animal cruelty and Animal death
yannyboi69's review against another edition
challenging
informative
slow-paced
4.25
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal death and Animal cruelty
Minor: Antisemitism
carlyalynnsia's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
5.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal cruelty and Animal death
mvonmalmborg's review against another edition
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
slow-paced
5.0
loved this so much that i would have totally devoured the book in one night if it hadn’t been for the fact i cried 4 times and threw up twice. i think that pretty much sums up the reading experience here….
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Graphic: Animal cruelty and Animal death
forestbiiird's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
informative
inspiring
sad
medium-paced
5.0
A vegetarian for the last 10 years, I had always thought vegans were kinda silly. I mean, eggs and milk, they don't require you to kill an animal, right? So eating it was okay. But at the same time I knew there might be something horrible that I didn't know about, and I avoided learning. I was already doing so much more than the people around me; surely it was enough to cover the little (if any) suffering birds and cows had to endure to give me these tasty things.
The book told me: you a giving money to the people who torture birds and cows. Look at these scenes of pain and suffering and think if you want to be a part of this.
Well, that is an easy decision, when you put it like this.
The book told me: you a giving money to the people who torture birds and cows. Look at these scenes of pain and suffering and think if you want to be a part of this.
Well, that is an easy decision, when you put it like this.
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Graphic: Animal death and Animal cruelty
_lilireads's review against another edition
informative
sad
fast-paced
3.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal cruelty and Animal death
dylanlouise's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
informative
sad
medium-paced
4.0
I really liked this one! It's definitely part memoir, part expose, and I appreciated how much of the author was in it. It does get a bit gory, as most vegan theory books do, but the sections of that in this book were all to illustrate an experience, rather than just prove a point. Would recommend to anyone who wants to understand the farming industry argument for veganism, and anyone looking for a change of pace from the usual theory-driven volumes.
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Graphic: Blood, Animal cruelty, and Animal death
tea_t's review against another edition
challenging
informative
sad
medium-paced
5.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal cruelty and Animal death