PositivePittsburgh Post-GazetteMr. Del Amo’s intensely visual, sensory writing brings to life the physicality of a factory farm: the blood, mucus, gore and excrement are animated, as though characters at war with the human drive to turn animals into disembodied machines ... By linking the horrors of past and present, Del Amo tells a story of how modernity has industrialized and optimized human cruelty ... [The book] invites readers to connect the tangled web of violence, against people and animals—and face the brutality in which all of us are complicit.
Jonathan Safran Foer
MixedPittsburgh Post-GazetteWe Are the Weather is filled with beautiful writing about the Earth’s uniqueness, including two breathtaking pages about the \'overview effect,\' or the experience of transcendence shared by astronauts who have seen our planet from space ... But there is a narrative hole in We Are the Weather— It does not fully connect the moral imperative to confront the climate crisis with the moral imperative to end animal agriculture. Mr. Foer enumerates largely familiar facts about the disturbing scale of factory farming ... His imagery of our beautiful planet remains unconnected to the idea that factory farming is the absolute antithesis of it, turning Earth into a monstrous, unrecognizable thing ... he makes veganism sound utterly joyless (it isn’t), and that’s hardly likely to persuade skeptical readers ... what if instead of focusing on disciplining himself, Mr. Foer used the book to explore how we are going to collectively dismantle the industries that profit from tormenting animals and wrecking the Earth? That might offer a vision not just for reforming ourselves, but for reshaping the fate of our planet.
