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Eating animals / Jonathan Safran Foer.

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Shelf Location	Collection	Volume Ref.	Branch	Status	Due Date
641.303 FOE	Adult Non Fiction		Campsie .	. Available .

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Field name	Details
ISBN	9780241144251 (pbk.)
Name	Foer, Jonathan Safran, 1977-
Title	Eating animals / Jonathan Safran Foer.
Published	Camberwell, Vic. : Hamish Hamilton, 2009.
Description	vii, 341 p. ; 23 cm.
Notes	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Storytelling -- All or nothing or something else -- Words/meaning -- Hiding/seeking -- Influence/speechlessness -- Slices of paradise/pieces of shit -- I do -- Storytelling.
Summary	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.
Subjects	Vegetarianism -- Philosophy
Subjects	Vegetarianism
Links to Related Works	Subject References: Vegetarianism . Vegetarianism -- Philosophy . See Also: Diet . Macrobiotic diet . Veganism . Vegetarian cookery . Authors: Foer, Jonathan Safran, 1977- .