“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
Chickens can do many things, but they cannot make sophisticated deals with humans. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“...that's the business model. How quickly can they be made to grow, how tightly can they be packed, how much or little… — 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
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
I said I kicked a French chicken in the stomach once." "Huh?" "It said, 'Oeuf.'" "What is that?" "It's a joke. Do… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
It might sound naive to suggest that whether you order a chicken patty or a veggie burger is a profoundly important decision.… — 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
I'm a vegetarian. You're a what? I don't eat meat. How can you not eat meat? I just don't. He says he… — 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
