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About the Actor
Narrator Jonathan Safran Foer is the author of Everything Is Illuminated, which won the national Jewish Book Award for Fiction and The Guardian First Book Award and is the basis for a feature film starring Elijah Wood. His second novel, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, has been hailed by Salman Rushdie as "ambitious, pyrotechnic, riddling, and above all ... extremely moving," and Warner Brothers and Paramount have jointly acquired movie rights to it. His works have been translated into more than 30 languages worldwide. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Product Description
On November 30, 2004 the New York Times broke a story of what they called "grisly" animal abuse at the world's largest glatt kosher slaughterhouse, AgriProcessors Inc. The story, based on a disturbing undercover investigation, received wide coverage in the mainstream press and remains the largest scandal in the kosher meat industry in recent memory. For many in the Jewish community, the seriousness of these abuses and the failure of kosher authorities to denounce them have raised fundamental questions about the consumption of meat more generally. This video takes on those questions. Narrator Jonathan Safran Foer is the author of Everything is Illuminated, winner of the National Jewish Book Award for fiction, The Guardian First Book Award, and the basis for a feature film starring Elijah Wood. His second novel, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, has been hailed by Salman Rushdie as "ambitious, pyrotechnic, riddling, and above all... extremely moving;"