Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2009
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
vii, 341 pages ; 25 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780316069908, 0316069906
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Storytelling -- All or nothing or something else -- Words/meaning -- Hiding/seeking -- Influence/speechlessness -- Slice of paradise/pieces of shit -- I do -- Storytelling
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