“To accept the factory farm —to feed the food it produces to my family, to support it with my money —would make… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
In my family, Father is the world champion at ending conversations. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Family are the people who must make you feel ashamed when you are deserving of shame. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“And how can you say I love you to someone you love? I rolled onto my side and fell asleep next to… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
The purpose of the Seder to my mind is to inspire conversations with your family about the human drama and hopefully transmit… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“But I do not do these things because we are a family. I do them because they are common decencies. That is… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
We eat as sons and daughters, as families, as communities, as generations, as nations, and increasingly as a globe. We can't stop… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I'm less worried about accomplishment - as younger people always can't help but be - and more concerned with spending my time… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Of course food has an important cultural use in families, but there are things that have more important cultural uses in families,… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Food serves two parallel purposes: it nourishes and it helps you remember. Eating and storytelling are inseparable-the saltwater is also tears; the… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
The dissolution of a family, global crisis creates the massive fracture, not only in the Middle East but between America and Israel,… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“We need enormous pockets, pockets big enough for our families, and our friends, and even the people who aren't on our lists,… — 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
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
“When I was nine, I had a babysitter who didn't want to hurt anything. She put it just like that when I… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Mother is a humble woman. Very, very humble. She toils at a small café one hour distance from our home. She presents… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“I went to my grandmother, your great-great-grandmother, and asked her to write a letter. She was my mother's mother. Your father's mother's… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
(You do not have to be shamed in my closeness. Family are the people who must never make you feel ashamed.) (You… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“unless you obtain your food in secret and eat it in the closet, you don’t eat alone. We eat as sons and… — 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
“But I do not do these things because we are family. I do them because they are common decencies. That is an… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
We need enormous pockets, pockets big enough for our families and our friends, and even the people who aren't on our lists,… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Choosing leaf or flesh, factory farm or family farm, does not in itself change the world, but teaching ourselves, our children, our… — 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
![“When I was nine, I had a babysitter who didn't want to hurt anything. She put it just like that when I asked her why she wasn't having chicken with my older brother and me: "I don't want to hurt anything." [...] What our babysitter said made sense to me, not only because it seemed true, but…” quote by Jonathan Safran Foer](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/c17/jonathan-safran-foer-136_family_when-i-was-nine-i-had-a-babysitter-who-d_3228667.jpg)
