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Se niente importa: Perché mangiamo gli animali? by Irene Abigail Piccinini, Jonathan Safran Foer
applegnreads's review against another edition
1.0
I would like to give this less than one star. I hated this book with a passion. Here's the thing... he writes a book about the evils of factory farming. I'm right with him, there's not much good about factory farming. However, he laces it with emotional appeals which are not appropriate considering the facts should have been enough. So, pigs do not sound like infants. The inspectors eyes were crazed, really? Is that a color? He compares the number of young a pig and a cow have to say how much we've increased the young of a pig. Really, the numbers were never the same. Why would you compare them? So, on one hand he's gone too far.
On the other hand, he goes not far enough. He says that the reason people shouldn't be meat eaters at all even if they can get all their meat from sustainable farms is that by eating meat at all, they're supporting factory farming. This is an argument I find suspicious to begin with but he doesn't bother applying it universally anyway. He becomes a puppy owner who is a vegetarian. Because puppys can come from puppy mills and eggs and dairy are mostly from factory farms, this means he continues to support these practices too, right?
Dude, figure out your arguments before you write a book. Ugh.
On a completely different note, his sum total of wordage dealing with people who choose to get meat from hunting is... that argument is silly. Silly? Thanks.
On the other hand, he goes not far enough. He says that the reason people shouldn't be meat eaters at all even if they can get all their meat from sustainable farms is that by eating meat at all, they're supporting factory farming. This is an argument I find suspicious to begin with but he doesn't bother applying it universally anyway. He becomes a puppy owner who is a vegetarian. Because puppys can come from puppy mills and eggs and dairy are mostly from factory farms, this means he continues to support these practices too, right?
Dude, figure out your arguments before you write a book. Ugh.
On a completely different note, his sum total of wordage dealing with people who choose to get meat from hunting is... that argument is silly. Silly? Thanks.
katieinca's review against another edition
4.0
There's a certain amount of sleight of hand at work here that makes me resist giving it five stars, and I don't know whether it comes from laziness or trickery, but there you go. Those bits are vastly overwhelmed by the actual facts that are interesting, disturbing, and verifiable, and make this more than worth the time spent reading it. Call this a 4.5.
This book has not made me a vegan, or even a vegetarian. Possibly I'm the only person who'll read it and come out more dedicated to buying meat from small farms.
What it HAS done is made me think about is the fact that none of my Goodreads friends or my Facebook friends who haven't already read it are going to, whatever review I write. We have two kinds of people in this country: people who already know some of this stuff and are disturbed by it enough to avoid factory-farmed meat, and people who don't want to know. What's occupied many of my hours since finishing this book is what to do about the fact that the vast majority of my friends, my family - my country - fall into the latter category, and are determined to stay there. Our recently acquired assumption that cheap meat is normal and necessary is leading us to our doom, and I'm not talking about the hard to quantify effects of a malfunctioning moral compass. I'm talking about unprecedented amounts of s*** poisoning land, water, and whole towns/states. I'm talking about mass death from pandemics.
This book has not made me a vegan, or even a vegetarian. Possibly I'm the only person who'll read it and come out more dedicated to buying meat from small farms.
What it HAS done is made me think about is the fact that none of my Goodreads friends or my Facebook friends who haven't already read it are going to, whatever review I write. We have two kinds of people in this country: people who already know some of this stuff and are disturbed by it enough to avoid factory-farmed meat, and people who don't want to know. What's occupied many of my hours since finishing this book is what to do about the fact that the vast majority of my friends, my family - my country - fall into the latter category, and are determined to stay there. Our recently acquired assumption that cheap meat is normal and necessary is leading us to our doom, and I'm not talking about the hard to quantify effects of a malfunctioning moral compass. I'm talking about unprecedented amounts of s*** poisoning land, water, and whole towns/states. I'm talking about mass death from pandemics.
yarelieliza's review against another edition
5.0
This is one of those rare books whose content sticks with me as I go about my day, and I'm sure it with stick with me as I go about my year and the rest of my life. Only about 2 other books of the hundreds I've read in my lifetime have been able to do this. JSF has challenged me to live my values by no longer living on the fence of "plant-based eating when convenient or for as long as it remains convenient." This book, with its well rounded presentation of various arguments on both sides, was the nail in the coffin of my formerly omnivorous ways. I cannot recommend it enough. It should be required reading in schools because we owe ourselves, our planet, future generations, and animals that much.
murdoch's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
reflective
tense
medium-paced
5.0
pikkugrepu's review against another edition
challenging
dark
informative
tense
medium-paced
4.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal cruelty and Animal death
sbgage's review against another edition
challenging
hopeful
informative
reflective
sad
fast-paced
4.0