Thanks to Foer, the disgusting realities of the modern animal agriculture industry and the incredible callousness of those who warm their hands on it become apparent. If you continue to eat animals after reading this book, then you are either heartless or insane, which is terrible in itself. As a schoolboy and then a student, Jonathan Safran Foer repeatedly wavered between omnivory and vegetarianism. But on the verge of fatherhood, he finally thought seriously about choosing the right diet for his unborn child. Trying to find answers to the questions that tormented him, he sneaked into a livestock farm under cover of darkness and received powerful emotional confirmation of the most negative guesses that had haunted him since early childhood. This book is about what he learned and what he decided. Drawing on numerous impressive examples from philosophy, literature, science, and, of course, his small but extremely powerful newly acquired detective experience, Foer enthusiastically explores the cultural phenomena with which we try to justify our predatory eating habits. Myths, folklore, family traditions and even pop culture - all these achievements of mankind continually plunge us into a state of deep oblivion regarding how and what we eat.