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To reduce risk of pandemics for ourselves, our gaze needs to turn to the health of animals.

From the bestselling author of the essential new 2019 book on animal agriculture and climate crisis: We are the Weather

Discover Jonathan Safran Foer's eye-opening and life-changing account of the meat we eat

'Should be compulsory reading. A genuine masterwork. Read this book. It will change you' Time Out


Eating Animals is the most original and urgent book on the subject of food written this century. It will change the way you think, and change the way you eat. For good.

Whether you're flirting with veganuary, trying to cut back on animal consumption, or a lifelong meat-eater, you need to read this book.

'Shocking, incandescent, brilliant' The Times

'Everyone who eats flesh should read this book' Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall

'Universally compelling. Jonathan Safran Foer's book changed me' Natalie Portman

'Gripping [and] original.
A brilliant synthesis of argument, science and storytelling. One of the finest books ever written on the subject of eating animals' Times Literary Supplement

'If you eat meat and fish, you should read this book. Even if you don't, you should. It might bring the beginning of a change of heart about all living things' Joanna Lumley

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its time to end our inhumane treatment of animals, for the sake of our appetite. there are far more healthy alternatives to meeting our caloric requirements than keeping animals in crowded and filthy cages, feeding them grains and antibiotics, and killing them

factory farms should be banned

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A must-read. Eating animals comes at a price. To us, the animals, the planet. The book provides an honest, measured and yet not sensationalised account of factory farming. It does not preach, it simply educates and helps to lift the vail of our ignorance about the food we eat.

Learn the real price of eating animals

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Full of eye opening information and moral perspectives that even I a long time vegan didn't know about, but this book often fails to grasp the connection between all of animal agriculture and negative impacts it has on our society.

Every level of animal agriculture is damaging to our health, our planet and the animals, whereas if you read this book you could be forgiven for thinking only factory farms were the problem which is simply not true.

Still it's a valuable book and I imagine would have an impact upon people new to the idea of vegetarianism or veganism.

Interesting & insightful but sometimes too simple.

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I loved this book. I had a rough, narrow view of the meat industry, and now I feel like I know so much more. This book persuaded me to become a vegetarian. I'm glad I know what is actually happening to these animals; these facts should be more widely known.

Truly enlightening.

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I've been listening to running books and ultra running books and some authors of touched on the subjects of vegan or plant based diets and there's been more publicity lately about the damage that intensive farming and fishing does to our planet. Having said that this book just put the tin hat on it for me. Come on... lets face it.. we all know it...when corporations get involved... or when things get to a level where it becomes corporate then u know that this is a well oiled machine focused on one thing - making as much money as possible.. shareholder return.. on the back of animals, birds and fish and applying the latest technologies and processes, wiping out all the traditional methods of farming, ruining the environment in the process... all in the name off efficiency and making more money. I haven't eaten meat or dairy since listening to this book.. about a week now. so what am i going to do about it now is the question for me?

Animals - A Commodity for Corporate Profit!

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