“Every time you make a decision about food, Paul pleaded, quoting Berry, “you are farming by proxy.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I have made my own choice, which is vegetarianism, but it's not the choice I'm imposing on anybody else. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, craving and identity. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Vegetarians are at best kindly but unrealistic. At worst they are delusional sentimentalists.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I love sushi, I love fried chicken, I love steak. But there is a limit to my love, — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“And I’ll tell you another thing: if consumers don’t want to pay the farmer to do it right, they shouldn’t eat meat.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Not responding is a response - we are equally responsible for what we don't do. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Stories about food are stories about us-our history and our values. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
There's never been a culture that wasn't obsessed with food. The sort of sad thing is that our obsession is no longer… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
In high school I became a vegetarian more times than I can now remember, most often as an effort to claim some… — 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
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
“The average distance our meat travels hovers around fifteen hundred miles. That’s like me driving from Brooklyn to the Texas Panhandle for… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Whether we're talking about fish species, pigs, or some other eaten animal, is such suffering the most important thing in the world?… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Do you eat chicken because you are familiar with the scientific literature on them and have decided that their suffering doesn't matter,… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
The kind of funny irony is that a lot of people talk about ethical meat eating as if it's a way to… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Farmers since the beginning of time have been feeding the world very successfully without systematically abusing animals or destroying the environment. But… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“But as with my grandmother's cooking, the food wasn't food. It was story: ours was the dad who liked to take safe… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Eating a piece of meat, at its most efficient, we could say is like throwing away six times that amount of food… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
But when, at the end of my sophomore year, I became a philosophy major and started doing my first seriously pretentious thinking,… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
What the meat industry figured out is that you don't need healthy animals to make a profit. Sick animals are more profitable...… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Ninety-eight percent of all the soy that's raised goes to livestock. So people make fun of vegetarians for being tofu eaters, but… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Sure, you could say that people should just eat less meat, but I’ve got news for you: people don’t want to eat… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Elsewhere the paper notes that vegetarians and vegans (including athletes) 'meet and exceed requirements' for protein. And, to render the whole we-should-worry-about-getting-enough-protein-and-therefore-eat-meat… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“The ADA takes a conservative stand, leaving out many well-documented health benefits attributable to reducing the consumption of animal products. Here are… — 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
“Scientific studies and government records suggest that virtually all (upwards of 95 percent of) chickens become infected with E. coli (an indicator… — 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
When it comes to meat, change is almost always cast as an absolute. You are a vegetarian or you are not. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
We believed in our grandmother’s cooking more fervently than we believed in God. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Before you rush off trying to see everything you can, educate yourself.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“omnivores contribute seven times the volume of greenhouse gases that vegans do.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Oh, I'd say I like a meal as much as anybody. But I find a certain kind of foodiness silly, gluttonous and… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
One of the greatest opportunities to live our values-or betray them-lies in the food we put on our plates. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
My wife and I have chosen to bring up our children as vegetarians. In another time or place, we might have made… — 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
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
