Eating Animals is Jonathan Safran Foer's eye-opening account of where meat comes from 'I simply wanted to know - for myself and my family - what meat is. Where does it come from? How is it produced? What are the economic; social and environmental effects? Are there animals that it is straightforwardly right to eat? Are there situations in which not eating animals is wrong? If this began as a personal quest; it didn't stay that way for long . . . ' Jonathan Safran Foer's Eating Animals is the most original book on the subject of food written this century. It will change the way you think; and change the way you eat. For good.'Moving; disturbing; should be compulsory reading. A genuine masterwork. Read this book. It will change you' Time Out'Shocking; incandescent; brilliant' The Times'Everyone who eats flesh should read this book' Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall'Gripping; horrible; wonderful; breathtaking; original. A brilliant synthesis of argument; science and storytelling. One of the finest books ever written on the subject of eating animals' The Times Literary Supplement'Horrifying; eloquent; timely' Spectator'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 LumleyJonathan Safran Foer was born in 1977. He is the author of Everything is Illuminated; which won the National Jewish Book Award and the Guardian First Book award; Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close; which is now a major film starring Tom Hanks and Sandra Bullock; and Eating Animals. He is also the editor of A Convergence of Birds.