You will remember when a bird crashed through the window and fell to the floor. You will remember, those of you who… — 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
Suddenly Yankel was overcome with a fear of dying, stronger than he felt when his parents passed of natural causes, stronger than… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Or maybe what he fears is just the opposite: that nobody is looking; that his death, like his life, is without purpose;… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Why are entire flocks of industrial birds dying at once? And what about the people eating those birds? Just the other day,… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Flea-Market vendors are frozen mid-haggle. Middle-aged women are frozen in the middle of their lives. The gavels of frozen judges are frozen… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
It's true, I am afraid of dying. I am afraid of the world moving forward without me, of my absence going unnoticed,… — 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