Reviews tagging 'Animal cruelty'

Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer

64 reviews

munches's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty and Animal death

shelby1994's review against another edition

challenging dark slow-paced

4.0

Reading this made me become a vegetarian. That's it. That's the review. 
(There is not enough space in the world for the number of content warnings that should be applied to this book; safe to say, don't make the mistake I did and try to read this while eating your lunch. You will throw up and have to leave work early to ponder the value and morality of human existence.) 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, and Gore

emmamoulton's review against another edition

challenging dark informative sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Confinement, Death, and Violence

mckeelyshannon's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective sad medium-paced

One of my favorite lines in the book is “If nothing matters, there's nothing to save.”

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Death, Gore, and Violence

vicanarc_'s review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

This is a good book if you are already vegetarian because it will give you facts to despute people's arguments against vegetarianism.
This book is in no way pleasent to read, but it tells the truth, and you can't deny it.
It's not pretty, but we have to come to term with the effects we have as white western capitalistic people when we eat animal products, and especially meat.

The author is in no way condesceding or "pushy" in his views, he is not the stereotypical "annoying" vegeterian. As a newbie vegan, i actually found him way too soft, but i understand that's the best way to present data to people who may not be already familiar with the topic

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Excrement, Gore, and Torture

allison_21's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty and Animal death

gracethesnail's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty and Animal death

krsweet's review against another edition

challenging informative medium-paced

2.5

The book was an interesting look into animal welfare in farming. I am glad for the descriptions of the practices, but some of the inclusions (such as information from PETA, which has been known to falsify claims) detract from the overall message. Some passages struck me as particularly dated as well, with language around human suffering throw in for shock value, especially mentions of sexual abuse and slavery. I wouldn't recommend this book to a friend, for those reasons, but I did gain a lot from it. I don't think I can take the word of the author as fact, but I do think his argument was persuasive. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Torture, and Violence

janehuynh's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty and Animal death

typedtruths's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Blood