Eating Animals

The facts of this book are not a huge surprise, particularly if you're at all familiar with factory farming. But as Foer points out, straightforward and clear statistics are the basis of any rational discussion about global food production, so he thinks they are worth laying out again.

Probably the most interesting discussion in this book (to me) is about what kind of food systems conscientious consumers should support– Foer is rightly concerned that simply opting out of eating factory-farmed meat does nothing to alter how the rest of the world eats.