The Face on Your Plate – The Truth About Food - Hardcover

Masson, Jeffrey M

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393065952 ISBN 13: 9780393065954

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2009

Synopsis

In this revelatory work, Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson shows how food affects our moral selves, our health and the environment. He raises questions to make us conscious of the decisions behind every bite we take: like the effect eating animals has on our land, waters, even global warming; what the results of farming practices - de-beaking chickens and separating calves from their mothers - are on animals and humans; and, how the health of animals affects the health of our planet and our bodies. As a psychoanalyst, Masson looks at how denial keeps us from recognising the animal at the end of our fork - think pig, not bacon - and investigates each culture's distinctions among animals considered food and those that are forbidden. "The Face on Your Plate" brings together Masson's intellectual, psychological and emotional expertise over the last twenty years into the pivotal book of the food revolution.

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Review:

This book could, quite literally, save the world.--Sophie Morris

Few bring to the table the wealth of knowledge and insight found here. . . . Masson s rare combination of passionate advocacy and scientific perspicacity makes this book unusually powerful. "

Intelligent, absorbing and very easy to digest, this is an essential book for any person who thinks and/or eats. --Debra Ginsberg"

This book could, quite literally, save the world. --Sophie Morris"

About the Author:

* JEFFREY MOUSSAIEFF MASSON is the author of the best-selling When Elephants Weep and Dogs Never Lie About Love, as well as The Pig Who Sang to the Moon and The Assault on Truth. An American, he lives in New Zealand.

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0393065952
• ISBN 13: 9780393065954
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256