The Casual Vegan

Okay, from what I can tell, Jonathan Safran Foer, author of Everything is Illuminated, is actually just a vegetarian, but people that crave some literary literature on the topic of not eating meat should look into his new book, Eating Animals. For those celebrity-philes out there, Natalie Portman cites this book as being the reason that she went from being a vegetarian of 20 years to a vegan. Here’s a summary of Eating Animals:

…on the brink of fatherhood –facing the prospect of having to make dietary choices on a child’s behalf– his casual questioning took on an urgency. His quest for answers ultimately required him to visit factory farms in the middle of the night, dissect the emotional ingredients of meals from his childhood, and probe some of his most primal instincts about right and wrong. 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.

The book comes out today in bookstores. Read an article adapted from Eating Animals published in the New York Times on October 9th, 2009, or a more recent article on CNN from Foer called Eating Animals is Making Us Sick.

Related posts:

1. Cats as Casual Vegans
2. Michael Pollan
3. Publication Bias in Animal Research

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