Eating Animals

Eating Animals (english Eating Animals ) is a non-fiction book by American writer Jonathan Safran Foer, which deals with the problems of factory farming. The book was published in 2009 in the U.S. and in August 2010 in Germany. The German translation is by Isabel Bogdan, Ingo Herzke and Brigitte Jakobeit.

Content

Jonathan Safran Foer began his research when he became a father. He wanted to " make informed decision about what I give to eat my son. " One reason he has gathered much of what the current practice in agriculture as comprehensively describes. Incoming evidence to the scientific sources to which Foer is based, can be found in the respective notes. All figures relate mainly to livestock in the United States. The German edition is, therefore, in addition to the footnotes of the author, a second appendix has been added, in which the situation in Germany as compared to that represented in the United States. The information has been contributed by the Vegetarian Union Germany.

The novel describes the prevailing practice in both the exploitation of nature, as in fishing, and in the U.S. factory farms and slaughterhouses. Since his written requests to an American manufacturer and marketer of meat, in which he had endeavored to management, had not been answered to Foer gave together with an animal protection activist access to a poultry farm to describe the conditions in the turkey production. He talks about the lives of animals whose slaughter and about the dangers of diseases as a result of factory farming. He frequently presents at pictorial comparisons. He also stressed several times how many drugs are present in the feed of the animals and what consequences this may offer in detail, both for the animals and for the consumers who eat the animals or their products.

Foer points out the problems and the dangers of factory farming, but calls explicitly on to become vegetarians.

Reception

The book has been discussed not only in Germany and received mostly positive in the media. Foer says he himself was surprised that his book "is not a bit was controversial ." The perception was at the forefront, the book did manage to " initiate a general discussion on vegetarianism, about an idea, then, for a long time but a few like to smiled ecologists and old aunts practiced ". It was " a brilliant blend of investigative journalism and autobiography ." In connection with the dioxin scandal late 2010/early 2011 at toxic residues in eggs, poultry and pork, which stemmed from feed, the book found Decent eat together with the new release. A self-experiment. by Karen Duve increasing attention.