“What we forget about animals we begin to forget about ourselves.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
...only someone who'd never been an animal would put up a sign saying not to feed them… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
The animals are those things that God likes but doesn't love. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“We live in a world in which it’s conventional to treat an animal like a hunk of wood and extreme to treat… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“why wouldn’t I eat a dog I’d never met? Or more to the point, what justification might I have for sparing dogs… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“We are the ones of whom it will be fairly asked, What did you do when you learned the truth of about… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Maybe one day the world will change, that we'll be in a luxurious position of being able to debate whether or not… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Our relationship to the environment matters, our relationship to animals matters, and our relationship to culture matters. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I know lots and lots and lots of vegetarians who think it's perfectly all right to kill animals for food to eat,… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Today, it isn't unusual for meat to travel almost halfway around the globe to reach your supermarket. The average distance our meat… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
My children not only inspired me to reconsider what kind of eating animal I would be, but also shamed me into reconsideration. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I first became a vegetarian when I was nine, in response to an argument made by a radical babysitter. My great change… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
We are breeding creatures incapable of surviving in any place other than the most artificial settings. We have focused the awesome power… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Just about every children's book in my local bookstore has an animal for its hero. But then, only a few feet away… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
How would you judge an artist who mutilated animals in a gallery because it was visually arresting? How riveting would the sound… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
We need a better way to talk about eating animals, a way that doesn't ignore or even just shruggingly accept things like… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
People who care about animals tend to care about people. They don't care about animals to the exclusion of people. Caring is… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Just how common do such savageries have to be for a decent person to be unable to overlook them? If you knew… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Silently the animal catches our glance. The animal looks at us, and whether we look away (from the animal, our plate, our… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Language is never fully trustworthy, but when it comes to eating animals, words are as often used to misdirect and camouflage as… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose, keep in touch (or don't), care about birthdays, waste and lose time,… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
We need a better way to talk about eating animals. We need a way that brings meat to the center of public… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“People care about animals. I believe that. They just don’t want to know or to pay. A fourth of all chickens have… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Her learning to sew (from a book Yankel brought back from Lvov) coincided with her refusal to wear any clothes that she… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“There is something about eating animals that tends to polarize: never eat them or never sincerely question eating them; become an activist… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Food matters and animals matter and eating animals matters even more. The question of eating animals is ultimately driven by our intuitions… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
We need a better way to talk about eating animals, a way that doesn't ignore, or even just shruggingly accept things like… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Cruelty...prefers abstraction. Some have tried to resolved this gap by hunting or butchering an animal themselves, as if those experiences might somehow… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
This brings me back to the image of Kafka standing before a fish in the Berlin aquarium, a fish on which his gaze fell… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share
I try not to remember the life that I didn’t want to lose but lost and have to remember — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share
He removed several pages of death certificates, which were picked up by another breeze and sent into the trees. Some would fall with the… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share
I would have done anything for him. Maybe that was my sickness. We made love in nothing places and turned the lights off. It… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share
“One day I wandered away from her and hid. I liked the way it felt to have someone look for me, to hear my… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share
“It was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn't think about it at… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share
“The appearance was misleading- human dreams; rubbish heaps abundant yet ephemeral sudden and splendid, only to wilt and perish” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share
“the entirety of human society and moral progress represents an explicit transcendence of what’s “natural.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share
“Food is not so much a symbol of freedom as the first requirement of freedom. We eat foods that are native to America on… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share
“Rationally, factory farming is so obviously wrong, in so many ways. In all of my reading and conversations, I’ve yet to find a credible… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share
Just because you're an atheist, that doesn't mean you wouldn't love for things to have reasons for why they are. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share
Do you think I'm wonderful? she asked him one day as they leaned against the trunk of a petrified maple. No, he said. Why?… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share
My insides don't match up with my outsides. -Do anyone's inside and outsides match up? -I don't know. I'm only me. -Maybe that's what… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share
