Eating Animals, by Jonathan Safran Foer

It was tough to read this at the same time as My Life in France, Julia Child's valentine to life and food in France -- which featured a lot of meat. Harder still to eat chicken after reading the section on commercial chicken farming. In the end, Foer remains a vegetarian, a more dedicated one than before, and I remained more of a fan of Michael Pollan's Omnivore's Dilemma, and remain an omnivore. But Eating Animals a very fair, well researched and reasoned book which makes one think hard about what's for dinner. It's also very well written. 341 pp.