

Foer's son is representative of the generations that are entering a world of industrialized farming, in which the decision to eat meat has many more implications than taste. Overview įoer presents the book as a way for him to decide whether or not his newborn child should eat meat. The book was adapted and extended into a 2018 documentary film with the same name, directed by Christopher Dillon Quinn and co-narrated by Foer and Natalie Portman. It was written in close collaboration with Farm Forward, a US nonprofit organization promoting veganism and sustainable agriculture.

A New York Times best-seller, Eating Animals provides a dense discussion of what it means to eat animals in an industrialized world. Eating Animals is the third book by the American novelist Jonathan Safran Foer, published in 2009.
