Not responding is a response--we are equally responsible for what we don't do. In the case of animal slaughter, to throw your… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
The animals are those things that God likes but doesn't love. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
My dream went all the way back to the beginning. The rain rose into the clouds, and the animals descended the ramp. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Think of the beginning of the story of the beginning of everything: Adam (without Eve and without divine guidance) names the animals.… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Isn't it strange how upset people get about a few dozen baseball players taking growth hormones, when we're doing what we're doing… — 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
We know, at least, that this decision (ending factory farming) will help prevent deforestation, curb global warming, reduce pollution, save oil reserves,… — 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
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
The UN special envoy on food called it a 'crime against humanity' to funnel 100 million tons of grain and corn to… — 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
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 animal that blushes, laughs, has religion, wages war, and kisses with lips. So in a way, the more… — 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
I felt shame for living in a nation of unprecedented prosperity-a nation that spends a smaller percentage of income on food than… — 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
I'm a novelist, I'm not an activist. I'm not a non-fiction writer, I'm not a journalist. I'm not a foodie, I'm not… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Just how destructive does a culinary preference have to be before we decide to eat something else? If contributing to the suffering… — 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 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
