Summer Reading 2011 Eating Animals  

Foehr's website is a mine of information about the author, the book, the issues. It includes a description of the author as well as a "getting started" resource page.

About the Author

Jonathan Safran Foer.   Biography from Contemporary Authors Online.  Detroit: Gale, 2010.  From Literature Resource Center.

"For Foer, Meat is Murder... And Worse."  Interview.  All Things Considered, November 1, 2009.

Comment and Reviews

Yevgeniya Traps, "The Artist as Vegetarian." American Book Review Sept-Oct 2010 v31 i6 p23.

Michael Pollen, "The Food Movement, Rising." The New York Review of Books June 10, 2010 v57 i10 p31; see also "The Food Movement, Rising: An Exchange." 

William Leith, "Brutal and Brutalising."   Spectator March 13, 2010 v312 i9472 p45.

Jennifer Schuessler, "Mau-Mauing the Flesh Eaters."  The New York Times Book Review Nov 15, 2009 p31.

Elizabeth Kolbert, "Flesh of Your Flesh."  The New Yorker Nov 9, 2009 v85 i36 p7.

Michiko Kakutani, "'You Know That Chicken is Chicken, Right?'" The New York Times Nov 19, 2009 pC25.

Farm Fresh North Carolina Diane Daniel

Food Safety: A Reference Handbook Nina Redman

Intensive Agriculture and Sustainability: A Farming Systems Analysis Glen C. Filson, ed.

An Introduction to Animals and the Law Joan Schaffner

Secret Ingredients: The Brave New World of Industrial Farming Stuart Laidlaw

The Taste for Civilization: Food, Politics, and Civil Society Janet A. Flammang