Jonathan Safran Foer - Eating Animals
by KCET
on January 5, 2010 11:37 AM
Hear award-winning author and wunderkind Jonathan Safran Foer (Everything Is Illuminated, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close) discuss his first nonfiction book, Eating Animals, in which he probes the many fictions we use to justify our eating habits, from pop culture to family traditions to national myth. Marked by Foer's moral ferocity and vibrant writing style, the critically hailed book--which made it to countless Top Ten lists of 2009--is a celebration... and a reckoning.
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