I love sushi, I love fried chicken, I love steak. But there is a limit to my love, — 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
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
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
“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
“People care about animals. I believe that. They just don’t want to know or to pay. A fourth of all chickens have… — 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
“...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'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
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
