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Article: Our livestock deserve better.(COMMENTARY)(BOOK REVIEW)(Column)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- November 5, 2009
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Byline: A.G. Gancarski, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES
In Eating Animals, wunderkind Brooklyn, N.Y., author Jonathan Safran Foer has produced a part-time memoir that evolves into an argument against factory farming and the myriad social ills the practice has begotten in recent decades.
It is an ambitious project, three years in the writing, but not one that the gifted prose stylist is up to, unfortunately. The memoir material is interesting as far as it goes, but the arguments against carnivorism presented here are fairly warmed-over and familiar not only to anyone who has ever seriously considered adopting vegetarianism (or veganism), but to any ...