Book review of sorts!

I recently finished reading the book Eating Animals written by Jonathan Safran Foer. Part memoir part investigative journalism. I found this description of the book on amazon

                        "If this book were packaged like a loaf of bread, its Nutrition Facts box would list high percentages of graphic descriptions of factory farm methods of animal breeding, mass confinement, and assembly-line slaughter as well as the brutality and waste of high-tech fishing methods; fresh studies of animal (fish included) intelligence and their capacity for suffering; and undiluted facts about industrial animal agriculture’s major role in global warming. Sensitive to the centrality of food in culture and family life, Foer, author of the novels Everything Is Illuminated (2002) and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005), frames his first nonfiction book within the story of his Holocaust survivor grandmother’s complex relationship with food and his response to fatherhood. He presents assiduously assembled facts (supported by70 pages of end notes) about the miserable lives and deaths of industrialized chickens, pigs, fish, and cattle and about agricultural pollution and how factory farming engenders species-leaping flu pandemics. He also asks philosophical questions, such as why we eat such smart and affectionate animals as pigs but not dogs. Foer brings extraordinary artistry, clarity, valor, and compassion to this staggering investigation into the ethics, horrors, and dangers of factory farming. An indelible book that should reach a diverse audience and deepen the conversation about how best to live on a rapidly changing planet."


This book is brutally honest leaving very little to the imagination. I feel that if you are unwilling to know the truth about where your food, mainly your meat comes from, then do you really have the right to be eating it? I say No. I am not the type of person who judges or looks down on those who are eating a hamburger. Thats your decision. I do however have a problem with our society and mostly our government allowing the actions that occur to get that hamburger to your plate. 
Jonathan does talk about the difference between factory farming and the small farms. I, like him, am all for the small farms. Or at the least the ones doing it "right". 
Look at how many drugs are being put into the animals, and essentially the meat we are consuming. Yet we wonder why there are more diseases that are drug resistant, why girls are hitting puberty at younger ages, why for example H1N1 occurred. - Factory Farming- thats why. 
Buy locally, grass fed, antibiotic free, humanly treated animals - during life and death. Sadly thats not what is available to the mass population. Its expensive, and hard to find. THIS should be the norm, this should be what is demanded. Not mystery meat. 


Alright thats my rant. Sorry. Honestly though, pick up this book. Its a great read - if you can stomach some of the details.