My Year of Meats by Ruth Ozeki Selected for 2007's One Book, One Vancouver City-Wide Book Club
By Richard Eriksson on April 25, 2007 - 7:04pm
Almost missed this amidst Canuck Fever, but the Vancouver Public Library has announced that My Year of Meats by Ruth Ozeki has been selected for Vancouver's city-wide book club. Here's the description from the OBOV website:
Jane, an American filmmaker, is hired by a beef lobbying group to make television shows for the Japanese market. As she grows more familiar with her subject, she becomes increasingly alarmed by the beef industry's unethical practices and sets out to sabotage the program. She is joined by Akiko, the wife of Jane's boss in Japan. Together they plot to expose the meat industry's hazardous practices.One Book, One Vancouver: About the Book
My quest to avoid books like Fast Food Nation gets a little harder (I know of the awful practices of herding and killing animals for feeding a mass market—I even see the chicken coop trucks sometimes while on a Hastings Street bus—but meat is so delicious!). Last year I missed out on Patrick Lane's book, though at the recent VPL book sale they were selling them at clearout prices like they do every year, but this year, I'm going to track the book down and read it before the book club ends. I'm adding OBOV-related events to the Urban Vancouver calendar, and I've created a One Book, One Vancouver 2007 special report, to which I'll be adding dispatches from myself and others.
