Like many young Americans, Jonathan Safran Foer spent much of his teenage and college years oscillating between enthusiastic carnivore and occasional vegetarian. As he became a husband, and then a father, the moral dimensions of eating became increasingly important to him. Faced with the prospect of being unable to explain why we eat some animals and not others, Foer set out to...(展开全部)

Jonathan Safran Foer spent much of his teenage and college years oscillating between omnivore and vegetarian. But on the brink of fatherhood-facing the prospect of having to make dietary choices on a child's behalf-his casual questioning took on an urgency His quest for answers ultimately required him to visit factory farms in the middle of the night, dissect the emotional ing...(展开全部)

好萊塢女星娜塔莉．波曼（Natalie Portman）公開表示，閱讀這本書後，她開始吃素：「讓我從20年葷食者一舉轉成積極的素食主義者。」 在知名節目艾莉脫口秀（The Ellen DeGeneres Show）上，作者針對提問寫書是不是要改變別人，作出回答：「我不是要嘩眾取寵，我是從自己開始改變。」他自認身為家長有責任教導孩子如何選擇食物，因為改變世界的開始，就是改變自己。 麥可‧波倫（Michael Pollan）曾說:「我們吃的東西在過去五十年裡發生的改變，比過去一萬年還要多。」 美食記者、作家謝忠道：「當天然／自然的食品都不再那麼天然自然時，人類何去何從？」 你知道每天吃下肚的奶蛋魚肉，充斥著多少彌天大謊？ 你了解在大啖牛雞豬羊的同時，吞噬了多少有害物質？ 或許你不關心吃下多少生靈，但你必須重視張口咬下的食物。 當我們所食用的動物、畜產品有...(展开全部)

Literature on the ethics and politics of food and that on human–animal relationships have infrequently converged. Representing an initial step toward bridging this divide, Messy Eating features interviews with thirteen prominent and emerging scholars about the connections between their academic work and their approach to consuming animals as food. The collection explores how au...(展开全部)

First published in 1995, "Intuitive Eating" has become the go-to book on rebuilding a healthy body image and making peace with food. We've all been there - angry with ourselves for overeating, for our lack of willpower, for failing at yet another diet. But the problem is not us; it's that dieting, with its emphasis on rules and regulations, has stopped us from listening to our ...(展开全部)

As we taste, chew, swallow, digest, and excrete, our foods transform us, while our eating, in its turn, affects the wider earthly environment. In Eating in Theory Annemarie Mol takes inspiration from these transformative entanglements to rethink what it is to be human. Drawing on fieldwork at food conferences, research labs, health care facilities, restaurants, and her own kitc...(展开全部)

"To understand your eating, you first have to understand yourself. This easily-read book helps you to step back and discover what influences your eating habits." Dr Ian Campbell - Founder of the National Obesity Forum and medical consultant on ITV's The Biggest Loser and Fat Chance "This valuable book makes sense of how food and eating may be misused and become entangled with e...(展开全部)

Though it shares many similarities with eating disorders, emotional eating is embedded in and accepted by our culture in many ways. Happy events and celebrations call for indulgence and overeating, but so do the lowest emotional points. Emotional eating becomes a problem when this dysfunctional eating pattern becomes a go-to mechanism for coping with depression, anxiety, loss, ...(展开全部)

As we taste, chew, swallow, digest, and excrete, our foods transform us, while our eating, in its turn, affects the wider earthly environment. In Eating in Theory Annemarie Mol takes inspiration from these transformative entanglements to rethink what it is to be human. Drawing on fieldwork at food conferences, research labs, health care facilities, restaurants, and her own kitc...(展开全部)

Our evolutionary ancestors once possessed the ability to intuit what food their bodies needed, in what proportions, and ate the right things in the proper amounts—perfect nutritional harmony. From wild baboons to gooey slime molds, most every living organism instinctually knows how to balance their diets, except modern-day humans. When and why did we lose this ability, and how ...(展开全部)