Jonathan Safran Foer's nonfiction work Eating Animals offers a shocking and brutally honest look into the repulsive world of modern livestock-raising. He notes horrifying details such as the massively disproportionate ratios of actual animals killed to edible food product (such as how many cows go into a single burger), as well as many disgusting truths regarding the treatment of factory farm animals, telling how they can be treated beyond inhumanely by means of harming them by mutilating and skinning them alive with no methods to dull their pain. In addition, Foer notes the regrettable side-effects of the genetic modification of animals to get more meat off of them, like the animals' extreme lack of fitness and recurring pain. While the book was often painful to read (I will never be able to eat McDonald's, etc., again without thinking of it), and told me things that I simply didn't really want to know, it did give me a greater awareness of the evils of factory farms, and a greater appreciation for humane and organic farming.
-Conor
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