Wie viele junge Menschen schwankte der Autor lange zwischen enthusiastischem Fleischgenuss und Vegetariertum hin und her. Als Familienvater dann wurden ihm die moralischen Dimensionen der Wahl seiner Nahrungsmittel mehr und mehr bewusst. Aus Literatur und Philosophie und seiner eigenen Suche nach der Wahrheit zieht er überraschende Schlussfolgerungen darüber, warum wir essen was wir essen.
Jonathan Safran Foer spent much of his teenage and college years oscillating between omnivore and vegetarian. But 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, ...
