Eating Animals

　　正如一針見血的書名，內容談的是每個人都得思考的問題：吃或不吃，動物？

　　作者Foer寫過兩本暢銷小說，他在為人父後，開始思考該餵小孩吃什麼。於是他在美國進行一年半地毯式調查，發現「吃動物讓我們生病」。首先他目睹及蒐集很多事例，說明食品工業其實是很病態的(99%食用肉都是經由人工飼養而來)，大規模的飼養動物，不只對環境、生態造成直接危害，人們也必須付出龐大的代價，例如養殖場帶來抗藥性病原體，產生人畜共生傳染病，如禽流感與豬流感。

　　本書以特別且與讀者切身的論點，點出食肉弊病，提供讀者重新思考吃肉這件事。目前高居美國亞馬遜網路書店暢銷榜，好萊塢女星娜塔莉波曼（Natalie Portman）也公開表示，閱讀這本書後，她開始吃素。Foer 10/28在CNN網站撰寫本書簡介的文章，也是當天該網站被轉寄最多次的文章。(文/歐蘭紐頓)

　　Jonathan Safran Foer spent much of his teenage and college years oscillating between omnivore and vegetarian. But on the brink of fatherhood-facing the prospect of having to make dietary choices on a child's behalf-his casual questioning took on an urgency His quest for answers ultimately required him to visit factory farms in the middle of the night, dissect the emotional ingredients of meals from his childhood, and probe some of his most primal instincts about right and wrong. Brilliantly synthesizing philosophy, literature, science, memoir and his own detective work, Eating Animals explores the many fictions we use to justify our eating habits-from folklore to pop culture to family traditions and national myth-and how such tales can lull us into a brutal forgetting. Marked by Foer's profound moral ferocity and unvarying generosity, as well as the vibrant style and creativity that made his previous books, Everything is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, widely loved, Eating Animals is a celebration and a reckoning, a story about the stories we've told-and the stories we now need to tell.