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Eating Animals

Jonathan Safran Foer

Part memoir and part investigative report, Bestselling author Jonathan Safran Foer spent much of his life oscillating between enthusiastic carnivore and occasional vegetarian. For years he was content to live with uncertainty about his own dietary choices but once he started a family, the moral dim...

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Behind the Bastards

It was mentioned briefly in a humorous context, where Robert Evans compared Hitler's rant about elephants and the meat industry to a passage from the book, highlighting the absurdity of the situation.

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I can't believe that Hitler's literally, like, reciting from Jonathan Safran Foer's Eating Animals, and like, at the same time-- Dude, you know how strong elephants are? They don't eat meat. They're j...

— Episode: Part Two: Hitler's Drug Problem

Episode: Part Two: Hitler's Drug Problem

It was mentioned briefly in a humorous context, where Robert Evans compared Hitler's rant about elephants and the meat industry to a passage from the book, highlighting the absurdity of the situation.

"

I can't believe that Hitler's literally, like, reciting from Jonathan Safran Foer's Eating Animals, and like, at the same time-- Dude, you know how strong elephants are? They don't eat meat. They're just like me! I'm like an elephant!

Episode: Part Two: Hitler's Drug Problem

It was briefly mentioned in relation to Hitler's bizarre rant about elephants and the meat industry while being injected with animal hormones, highlighting a strange juxtaposition of topics.

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I can't believe that Hitler's literally, like, reciting from Jonathan Safran Foer's Eating Animals, and like, at the same time-- Dude, you know how strong elephants are? They don't eat meat. They're just like me! I'm like an elephant!

Chasing Life

Professor Gardner listed 'Eating Animals' by Jonathan Safran Foer as one of the popular books used in his class. The students were motivated to change their diets due to the societal implications of their food choices, not health or weight.

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And we're not even gonna find scientific papers. We're gonna find popular books by Michael Pollan and Marian Nestle and Eric Schlosser and Jonathan Safran Foer and have them, it's gonna be a discussio...

— Episode: Do Diets Really Work?

Episode: Do Diets Really Work?

Professor Gardner listed 'Eating Animals' by Jonathan Safran Foer as one of the popular books used in his class. The students were motivated to change their diets due to the societal implications of their food choices, not health or weight.

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And we're not even gonna find scientific papers. We're gonna find popular books by Michael Pollan and Marian Nestle and Eric Schlosser and Jonathan Safran Foer and have them, it's gonna be a discussion-based class.

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