Reviews tagging 'Animal cruelty'

The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan

10 reviews

brakebills42's review

dark emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty

sbgage's review against another edition

funny informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty and Animal death

alixgb's review

challenging hopeful informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.5

This book was fascinating - very dense, but moved more quickly in the second half. It's definitely a book that is helping motivate me to change the way I eat and feed my family. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death and Animal cruelty

klapaucius's review

informative reflective medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Violence

atuin's review against another edition

informative fast-paced

3.5

A very interesting discussion on the ethics and safety issues of the American food system, with some solutions on how to fix them. I do find it a missed opportunity to not discuss how wealth inequality impacts peoples food options, and the goal of only eating local is sometimes worse for the environment than shipping it from elsewhere depending on the type of farm. Overall most of the info is accurate and it’s written in an engaging way! 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death and Animal cruelty

deerlordxx's review

challenging informative medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty and Animal death

cglharmony's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty

alexander_'s review

informative reflective relaxing medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, and Fatphobia

contre_qui's review

challenging informative medium-paced

3.5

Really interesting read! I felt the way Pollan talks about vegetariansm to be somewhat condescending, but otherwise I felt it was an interesting and informative book.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Animal cruelty, and Blood

Minor: Excrement

This book discusses very frankly the treatment and slaughter of animals such as chickens, cows, and pigs in the American industrialized food system. There is also a moderately graphic scene of humane chicken slaughter, but this scene does deal with animal death and lots of blood.

gwas007's review

hopeful informative fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty and Animal death