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Jonathan Safran Foer is fascinated by trauma. His first novel, the critically acclaimed “Everything is Illuminated,” chronicled his young facsimile’s eastern European journey to unpack the lives of his Holocaust-survivor relatives. “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close,” his second, was a deeply-felt emotional mosaic about the resonance between the 9/11 attacks and the Dresden firebombings. Foer’s first work of nonfiction, “Eating Animals,” has a different sort of trauma in mind: the suffering inflicted on livestock...
Despite these adjustments, however, Foer’s formidable intellect remains preoccupied with the nature of violence and how a thinking person should go about dealing with it in the world. A recent father, Foer undertook the research for “Eating Animals”—an examination of the various aspects of animal agriculture—in order to come to an informed decision about whether or not to feed meat to his newborn son. What follows is a harsh portrayal of the modern factory-farming industry and an unflinching investigation of the implications that...
...Foer devotes most of this book to providing a detailed condemnation of industrial animal agriculture—or factory farming—which provides more than 99% of the meat consumed in America today and which has exactly nothing to do with the pastoral image most people associate with the word “farm...
...Foer says he hopes the site inspires people to do more than simply browse for weird places on their ... lunch hour, of course. The duo is planning a guided tour through Philadelphia that tackles the city's stranger scenes. (Who's up for America's longest-operating surgical theater?) "Armchair traveling can only take you so far," Thuras says. "We're interested in anything that encourages more actual travel...
Thuras and Foer say they've both been surprised by the reception they've gotten during the site's short lifespan; high traffic forced them to beef up their server in the first week the site went live. Thuras says it's hard to say exactly why Atlas Obscura resonates with travelers, who have flocked in droves to contribute new places to the site. "I think as the world gets smaller, people are still excited to see that there's lots still to discover - and that there's still a lot of weird stuff out there," he says. The hope...