This brings me back to the image of Kafka standing before a fish in the Berlin aquarium, a fish on which his… — 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
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
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
“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
There is an overabundance of rational reasons to say no to factory-farmed meat: It is the No. 1 cause of global warming,… — 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
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
This isn't animal experimentation, where you an imagine some proportionate good at the other end of the suffering. This is what we… — 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
There are more obese people in the world than starving people. As China and India start to develop our eating habits -… — 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
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
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
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
Every factory-farmed animal is, as a practice, treated in ways that would be illegal if it were a dog or a cat. — 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 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
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
It shouldn't be the consumer's responsibility to figure out what's cruel and what's kind, what's environmentally destructive and what's sustainable. Cruel and… — 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
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
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
Imagine being served a plate of sushi. But this plate also holds all of the animals that were killed for your serving… — 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
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“The appearance was misleading- human dreams; rubbish heaps abundant yet ephemeral sudden and splendid, only to wilt and perish” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“the entirety of human society and moral progress represents an explicit transcendence of what’s “natural.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image