Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Foer makes a powerful indictment against modern factory farming practices: they are cruel & inhumane, proliferate an environmentally damaging industry, and become wellsprings of human disease from obesity to contagions. Foer charts his path from investigator to vegan to vegatarian slaughterhouse maker. (The final engineering feat bring to mind the Errol Morris documentary "Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.")
For Foer, turkey, chicken and pork industries are just irredeemable with the beef industry modestly better. Heritage breeds, those not already inbred to sickly mutants, are rare and unsustainable for the globe leaving no way out but vegetarinaism for the earnest researcher and father.
Very interesting is the economic angle: food prices have remained and are expected to be flat over the years, but food producer's costs and cost of living rise with everyone else, forcing them into the arena of institutionalized animal curelty to increase margins and have a sustainable business model.
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