The Corner (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
It's fashionable to attack modern farming methods these days, whether it's in trendy books by authors such as Michael Pollan and Jonathan Safran Foer or documentaries such as Food Inc . When you live in a society that worries more about obesity than hunger--one that produces food more abundantly than any other in human history--it's easy to take agriculture for granted and fantasize about a world of...
Grist Magazine (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
by Tom Philpott Martha Stewart is easy to caricature. But the sister values good ingredients—and has realized that industrial agriculture churns out flavorless crap. That has caused her to ask second-order questions about the food system—and use her immense popular appeal to shed light on the horrors of factory meat farming. She has devoted her latest episode to the topic of “vegetarian...
New York Post (Free subscription) | yesterday
Even if Jonathan Safran Foer has ruined your enjoyment of turkey, you still gotta love Thanksgiving. We certainly do, which is why we won’t be updating our award-winning Web site until Monday — unless all hell breaks loose, of course, in which case w...
Jewish Book Council Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Posted by Naomi Firestone Moment Magazine lists its “Intriguing Books of 2009″: Accomplice to Evil: Iran and the War Against the West Michael A. Ledeen (Truman Talley) Eating Animals Jonathan Safran Foer (Little, Brown) The Clothes On Their Backs Linda Grant (Scribner) Anne Frank: The Book, The Life, The Afterlife Francine Prose (HarperCollins) Homer & Langley E. L. Doctorow (Random...
Foodista Blog (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
The author Jonathan Safran Foer often tackles subjects that make other authors uncomfortable, stories about the victims of horrific events. In Everything is Illuminated, he chronicled a young man’s journey to Ukraine to find the woman who saved his grandfather from the Nazis. He was one of the first to write about the events of [...]
Veggie Revolution (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
A book review by Sally Kneidel, PhD http://sallykneidel.com/ As a biologist and co-author of two books about the meat industry, I was asked by Jonathan Safran Foer's publicist to review Foer's new non-fiction book Eating Animals . I confess I didn't want to read it, because the topic can be distressing. But I'm glad I did. It's among the best books I've ever read on the topic: remarkably thorough and...
Jake Today (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
Vegetarians take note. Here's a book for you. The reviewer may not like the book, but he is a bit too partial to pastrami. Vegans, check this book out, you might enjoy it! Jonathan Safran Foer's animal farm
Fanatic Cook (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Jonathan Foer's book is hard to read. Here's a story. It begins a chapter where he discusses the acts involved in transforming a living animal into a processed animal. "Paradise Locker Meats used to be located somewhat closer to Smithville Lake, in northwestern Missouri. The original plant burned down in 2002 when a fire broke out as a result of a ham smoking gone awry. In the new facility is...
Moderato (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Zadie SmithWhy do novelists write essays? Most publishers would rather have a novel. Bookshops don’t know where to put them. It’s a rare reader who seeks them out with any sense of urgency. Still, in recent months Jonathan Safran Foer, Margaret Drabble, Chinua Achebe and Michael Chabon, among others, have published essays, and so this [...]
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Suffering from 'novel nausea', Zadie Smith wonders if the essay lives up to its promise Why do novelists write essays? Most publishers would rather have a novel. Bookshops don't know where to put them. It's a rare reader who seeks them out with any sense of urgency. Still, in recent months Jonathan Safran Foer, Margaret Drabble, Chinua Achebe and Michael Chabon, among others, have published essays,...
My Tragic Right Hip (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Last week I was excited to try Shortcovers -- I've been reading manuscripts and classics on my Sony eReader for over a year, and now wanted to try to buy new content from a source that made it easy to transfer from device to device. Shortcovers promises this is easy . And let's keep in mind that I am not one to be afraid of technology. But many, many things went wrong: 1. On my way home from The Giller...
The Millions (A Blog About Books) (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Eating Animals is a sensitive and brave book and as such will always be met by certain criticisms reserved for things which are sensitive and brave.
Tape Noise Diary (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Flesh of Your Flesh New Yorker profiles Jonathan Safran Foer’s Eating Animals. Foer was just nine years old when the problem of being an “eating animal” first presented itself. One evening, his parents left him and his older brother with a babysitter and a platter of chicken. The babysitter declined to join the boys for dinner. “You know [...]
New York Times (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Jonathan Safran Foer uses his literary gifts to give the reader some very visceral, very gruesome descriptions of factory farming and the slaughterhouse.
Tom Nelson (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Administration Asked to Detail Cost to Jobs, Economy under EPA Decisions WASHINGTON – U.S. Reps. Joe Barton, R-Texas, and Greg Walden, R-Ore., today asked Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson to explain how four rules, including the greenhouse gas endangerment finding, would affect job losses in the United States. Drop That Burger - Forbes.com The green cognoscenti are choosing...
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