About this title: In this feisty, terrifying, and ultimately heartwarming novel, two women--one in America, one in Japan--take on the beef industry, hoping to expose the dangers of hormone use in cattle farming. Winner of the Imus American Book Award, the Kiriyama Book Prize, and the Versailles World Cookbook Award.
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Description: Very Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 366, 16 pp.; 21 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Spine slightly bowed. Age toning. "The perfect fiction companion to The Omnivore's Dilemma and In Defense of Food. Now that Michael Pollan's New York Times bestsellers have opened up a national dialogue about where food really comes from, conscientious readers everywhere will want to devour My Year of Meats. When documentarian Jane Takagi-Little finally lands a job producing a Japanese television show that ... read more
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Description: Very Good. 0140280464 Paperback, Condition: Very Good; this book is in very good condition with light curve to the spine / light reading creases to the covers. read more
Description: Very Good. 0140280464 Paperback, Condition: Very Good; this book is in very good condition with light discoloration due to aging and other light wear. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Viking Adult
Date Published: 1998-06-01
ISBN-13:9780670879045ISBN:0670879045
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. VG/VG. Very Good Hardcover book with Very Good Dust Jacket. Binding tight and straight. Pages clean and unmarked. read more
"This is a great book! It's a well-written page-turner with interesting characters. While a work of fiction, the book leaves the reader wondering about the U.S.'s meat industry and fearing the worst! I'm glad I don't eat that much meat! ; )"
"Picked this up because I had read another of Ozeki's books and liked it.I actually did the audio book version and was pleasantly surprised at how deftly she tied the stories of two women and the scary world that is feed lot meat production. Doesn't exactly sound like a great combination but it really worked well. She vividly describes her characters and makes them interesting and human with a good dose of humor to lighten some of the really tough parts. I have to say I will never be able to think of mass beef production in quite the same naive, innocent way. And that's probably a good thing."
"I found this book on the street, literally in a box on someone's stoop while walking around my neighborhood. I had heard about it before finding it, in fact had looked for a used copy for a long time when I was living in NYC and never connected with one; then it connected with me!
The novel is a story of one woman's "Year of Meats". A year which embodies a search for an American "authenticity", a sense of self and history for the various characters and a subtle but persuasive enlightenment on the real underbelly of the meat industry.
Call it a feminist version of "The Jungle", evolving beyond Sinclair's androcentric exploitative slaughterhouses, to the matriarch-rich families of Middle America (juxtaposed against the patriarchy of Japanese families) and their interactions with the industry. This book brings home the "why you should care about how meat is handled" issue without bludgeoning you with ghoulish facts and images.
"A Japanese American woman is hired to work the Production aspect of a reality show to air in Japan called My American Wife!, which is actually sponsored by the American Beef Lobby and is to be used to convince Japanese housewives to cook the beef-and-pork laden recipes cooked by "wholesome" Middle-American Moms on each week's installment.
Let me be honest - this book is fiction, but there's a departure about 2/3 of the way through that explores (very briefly) the evils of factory farming in America. I wasn't expecting that. What I was expecting was the promised hilarity of anything involving a Japanese TV crew in middle America, which is what I (mostly) got. The book is hysterical, clever, touching and right up my alley with the vegan stuff, but don't let that be a reason to stop you. This book had a tone unlike anything I'd ever read before, which was reason enough to pick it up.
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