"[Jonathan Safran] Foer takes us alongside him as he bungles through undercover investigations and into the hidden world of today's industrial farming. We find out that turkeys have been so genetically modified they are not capable of sexual reproduction. We learn that the chickens on American's plates have been bred to grow so large so fast that their mere genetics destines them to suffering. We learn that "free range" means next to nothing and why it's fish and chicken you want to most avoid.

The book is a case against factory farming, but we don't hear only the bad news about animal agriculture. Foer also takes us to the most humane and sustainable animal farms in the nation. We get to hear a dizzying variety of voices: factory farmers, slaughterhouse workers, animal activists, a turkey farmer who apologizes to his animals, a vegetarian cattle rancher, and a vegan helping to build a slaughterhouse."

_ http://tiny.cc/M2Jvh

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Originally posted by ellenr-og:

...it's fish...you want to most avoid.

If my last fishing trip is any indication I’m a bloody expert at avoiding them.

Seriously, while I probably won't agree with much of what he writes, it still sounds like it will be an interesting read.

I've read several of his recent articles and I've found him to be an astute young man...

Interestingly enough some of his investigations in the book could get him in a heap o' trouble with the FBI. It's considered domestic terrorism, based on an interesting law prohibiting trespassing on, filming in, or otherwise documenting the operations of an "animal enterprise."

I saw a somewhat related comment today that I'll have to paraphrase:

You can tell "factory farmers" aren't farmers. Real farmers love to show you their farms and will tell you everything about how they do business and every detail of their work, no matter how minute. But factory farmers don't want you to see or know anything about their work and how they do it.