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Se niente importa: Perché mangiamo gli animali? by Irene Abigail Piccinini, Jonathan Safran Foer
6 reviews
cleotheo's review against another edition
informative
reflective
fast-paced
3.75
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal death, Animal cruelty, and Excrement
Moderate: Death
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
mirschens's review against another edition
challenging
informative
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
4.25
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal cruelty and Animal death
Minor: Cancer, Death, and Drug use
emmamoulton's review against another edition
challenging
dark
informative
sad
tense
medium-paced
5.0
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.”
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Death, Gore, and Violence
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.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Torture, and Violence
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