Jonathan Safran Foer spent much of his teenage and college years wavering between omnivore and vegetarian. However, on the eve of his fatherhood – confronted with the prospect of having to make dietary decisions on behalf of a child – his casual questioning took on a sense of urgency. His search for answers ultimately required him to visit factory farms in the middle of the night, analyze the emotional ingredients of meals from his childhood, and question some of his most fundamental instincts about right and wrong. He brilliantly combines philosophy, literature, science, memoir, and his own detective work.