Jonathan Safran Foer - Animals a tányéromon

“I was driven by unexpected impulses when I found out I was going to be a father. I started cleaning, replacing old light bulbs, cleaning windows, filing documents, getting my glasses repaired, buying a dozen white socks, installing a roof rack on the car and a space-separating dog grate on the back seat, exercising for the first time in half a decade... and I decided to write a book about about eating meat."

Jonathan Safran Foer's book is the most original-sounding book written on the topic of food this century. With a lot of humor, irony and awakening thoughts, he points out the evils of the meat industry and meat eating, as well as how unfair and dishonest our relationship with animals is in many cases. Animals on my plate is guaranteed to change the way you think about eating and meat, and in a good way.

“This story didn't start out as a book. I just wanted to know - for myself and my family - what meat is. I wanted to be as specific as possible. Where it comes from? How is it produced? How are animals treated, and to what extent does it matter? What are the economic, social and environmental effects of eating animals? However, my personal research did not remain in this direction for long. Through my efforts as a parent, I came face to face with facts that as a citizen I could not ignore, and as a writer I could not keep to myself. But reckoning with those facts and writing responsibly about them are not one and the same thing."