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Great book for anyone who considers going vegetarian or vegan or just wants to be informed and mindful about what they eat!
Very informative but reads super nicely at the same time. Looks at several sides of the coin and is very down to earth and not too lecturing. A little odd thoug that after all the research on the meat industry no conclusion on the dairy industry were drawn. It promotes vegetarianism with all the arguments that should have led to veganism.
The POV is very American so the data might not apply everywhere.
It is quite graphic, fair warning, animal abuse is described frequently.

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natrabbits's review against another edition

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challenging informative medium-paced

5.0

As a vegetarian, this book was very difficult and I had to skip portions and return to them. Foer's arguments have been useful in my conversations with non-vegetarians. If you are looking for a reason to stop eating meat, read this book!

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ghostly_monstera's review against another edition

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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.

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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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shelby1994's review against another edition

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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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challenging dark informative sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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