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Foer is best known as a brilliant novelist, but he’s also a vegan activist, and We Are the Weather is one of the first and most memorable books to make the point that our taste for meat is ravaging the planet and destabilizing the climate.
It is a strange book—the first 63 pages are mostly a rumination on the Holocaust and various forms of psychological denial—and Foer, a magnificent writer, is a somewhat less magnificent analyst of science and politics.
But his key point is vital and unassailable: The earth is becoming an animal farm, and if we’re going to…
From Michael's list on The best books about how our food affects our environment.
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