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
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
We eat as sons and daughters, as families, as communities, as generations, as nations, and increasingly as a globe. We can't stop… — 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
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
The kind of funny irony is that a lot of people talk about ethical meat eating as if it's a way to… — 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
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
Food serves two parallel purposes: it nourishes and it helps you remember. Eating and storytelling are inseparable-the saltwater is also tears; the… — 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
But when, at the end of my sophomore year, I became a philosophy major and started doing my first seriously pretentious thinking,… — 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
If people thought about food more like how we think about the environment, a lot of people would be eating differently and… — 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
Consumers are going to have get used to eating less meat - to paying more for better quality meat and eating significantly… — 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 know it (meat eating) is indisputably the number one cause of global warming. So what does it mean exactly to be… — 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
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
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
