Well, this is no Eating Animals. I found Foer's ruminations a little confusing. His summaries of scientific data are nothing new (albeit appalling), but interspersed with a lot of navel gazing and ponderousness and rhetorical tricks - and I am one of the converted! Have to say that I was shocked to hear that the person who wrote Eating Animals sometimes eats hamburgers and still hasn't given up eggs and dairy!! - and he claims to crave animal products every day (I find that really strange to hea...

Сovid, officially designated the main source of fear and awe of modernity, has not canceled global climate change and anthropogenic factors affecting it. That's unless planes almost never flew to lockdown, and many learned the delights of working remotely, that is, CO2 emissions from high-octane fuel burned were slightly less. But, I'll say an unexpected thing now, which I read from Foer: the main source of environmental pollution is not our transport or even industry, but... our eating habits.

This is one of those books the vast majority of the Western world should read, even though in many ways it really isn't a particularly good read. The first couple sections are fine: we're destroying life on our irreplaceable planet and it will take a massive and collective effort—not unprecedented, as he shows us—to overcome what we're doing. Okay, I'm in. The best first, necessary step is to move away from an animal products-based diet. Yes, I'm totally on board. Aaaaand that's really it. Foer

As important as this subject is, this is not a book which will bring you any form of enlightenment. Unless, of course, you want to discover what Jonathan Safran Foer thinks about ... well... pretty much everything. Interspersed with the occasional relevant fact is a meandering, erratic piece of writing that leapt from mini story to anecdote to rant from one moment to the next. I'm not sure whether Foer was aiming for some kind of connection to the common man here, but it comes across as a self s...

Jonathan Safran Foer who, in his book Eating Animals, spoke about the horrific treatment of animals in factory farms, now informs us how our consumption of meat, dairy, and eggs is killing the planet. He makes a case for why we should all be vegan for the planet (though he himself is not and hems around making excuses for that), but without being preachy and with an understanding of how difficult this is for many people. (I personally don't understand that. Why isn't it easy when we know how ani...

ETA: [Dieses Buch haben wir auch im Papierstau Podcast besprochen (Folge 84: #TeamGreta)] /ETA Watch my high hopes, expectations and anticipation regarding this book crumble with every chapter... The book's general idea is so important and needs to be adressed more often and louder. It is, in a nutshell, the idea of everybody going vegan (or at least 2/3 vegan - no animal products before dinner) in order to gain a collectively large change for the better on all things climate. Yes sure, there's

The book is written in essay form, some personal, some informative. Its purpose is to highlight the changing climate, there are pages of facts and figures. Also, if you read his previous book, one would know he advocates not eating animals nor their by products. Something, by the way, which he admits having trouble doing, and his subsequent guilt after so doing. Anyone who believes in climate change can see how it is already affecting the weather in different parts of the world. Most agree somet...

Audiobook... read by Jonathan Safran Foer“Climate change is possibly the most boring subject the science world has ever examined”.Ha... well this urgent - serious non- fiction book is definitely not as adventurous as “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close”, or laugh-out-loud-comic-tragic as “Here I Am”, ( two books I liked ‘lots’ by Foer)....but it’s at least worth skimming.I say skimming because - while listening to the Audiobook.... my mind automatically checked out at times... ( a brain-skim-na...

Exactly as the tagline suggests, this is a book prompting the reader on how to save our planet. And it all begins at breakfast.Despite measuring in at just over 200 pages, the first 70 were spent on seemingly disparate topics almost exclusively unrelated to climate change. I was, at first, baffled, but soon found this to be a very clever device to ensure the reader began to associate the seemingly distant fears of the irrevocable destruction of our planet to more immediate threats, such as those...

(2.5) I’ve read all of Jonathan Safran Foer’s major releases, from Everything Is Illuminated onwards, and his 2009 work Eating Animals had a major impact on me. (I included it on a 2017 list of “Books that (Should Have) Literally Changed My Life.”) It’s an exposé of factory farming that concludes meat-eating is unconscionable, and while I haven’t gone all the way back to vegetarianism in the years since I read it, I eat meat extremely rarely, usually only when a guest at others’ houses, and my h...

This is not a bad book--it is just not what I thought I was getting. I heard the author interviewed on CBC radio, which prompted me to put a hold on it at the public library and I had to wait for quite a while to get a hold of it. I hadn’t realized that it was mostly a memoir, detailing the author’s struggle to adhere to his own beliefs about what he could personally do about climate change. I struggle with knowing what I can do about such a huge issue and I was hoping for advice. Most recommend...

This short book by Jonathan Safran Foer is a very personal look at the strategies for mitigating climate change. He lists the various human activities that contribute to climate change. He then comes up with the single-most important item on the list, that everybody can immediately help with. That factor is switching from an omnivorous diet to a plant-based diet. It is easy, cheap, and does not require politicians to get off their collective ass to solve the problem.Foer argues compellingly, all...

I thought this book was good. I loved the overall message that he was trying to get across but in my opinion I'm not sure that the book ended up accomplishing what he hoped it would. I wish that he would have talked about climate change and eating a more vegan diet just a little bit more. I think it's good how he added the personal elements in there to make the facts more relatable, but I personally think that it could have done with just a bit more facts on the main topic and a bit less persona...

This book was incredibly frustrating. I like Jonathan Safran Foer. I appreciate what he’s trying to do here. And most importantly, I agree with his overarching message. We need to care more collectively about the state and future of the planet. There are things we can each do to lessen the burden on our natural resources. Climate change is an issue that requires immediate, decisive and immense attention. But I’m not reviewing political topics, I’m reviewing a book written on one. And this just w...