Jonathan Safran Foer

Tue., Nov. 10, 7:30 p.m., free, Free Library, Central Branch, 1901 Vine St., 215-567-4341, freelibrary.org.

by Lauren F. Friedman

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Published: Nov 3, 2009

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Anyone who thinks Michael Pollan is a radical food activist should listen closely when Jonathan Foer speaks: In Eating Animals (Little Brown, Nov. 2), he insists that Pollan and his ilk don't go nearly far enough. Skeptical? Prepare to be converted: More humane farming is great, he writes, but why does it go without saying that we should eat meat at all? Foer — formerly an ambivalent, occasionally lapsed vegetarian and the author of fiction best-sellers Everything Is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close — explores American eating habits, the meat industry and the place of food in our culture, ultimately arguing that the moral, ecological and public-health costs of meat-eating far outweigh the but-it's-so-tasty benefits.

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