“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
Animal agriculture makes a 40% greater contribution to global warming than all transportation in the world combined; it is the number one… — 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
When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own. — 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
Ninety-nine percent of all land animals eaten or used to produce milk and eggs in the United States are factory farmed. So… — 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
“Given that eating animals is in absolutely no way necessary for my family — unlike some in the world, we have easy… — 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
“If we are not given the option to live without violence, we are given the choice to center our meals around harvest… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Ultimately, the controversy around PETA may have less to do with the organization than with those of us who stand in judgment… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Almost always when I told someone I was writing a book about "eating animals", they assumed, even without knowing anything about my… — 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
If we are not given the option to live without violence, we are given the choice to center our meals around harvest… — 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
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
We can't plead ignorance, only indifference. Those alive today are the generations that came to know better. We have the burden and… — 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
