There is an overabundance of rational reasons to say no to factory-farmed meat: It is the No. 1 cause of global warming,… — 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
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
Perhaps in the back of our minds we already understand, without all the science I've discussed, that something terribly wrong is happening.… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
However much we obfuscate or ignore it, we know that the factory farm is inhumane in the deepest sense of the word.… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
The more exposure people have to the realities of factory farming, the more we will see people rejecting it. It's already happening. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Every factory-farmed animal is, as a practice, treated in ways that would be illegal if it were a dog or a cat. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
There is a glaring reason that the necessary total ban on nontherapeutic use of antibiotics hasn't happened: The factory farm industry, allied… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
It shouldn't be the consumer's responsibility to figure out what's cruel and what's kind, what's environmentally destructive and what's sustainable. Cruel and… — 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
Needless to say, jamming deformed, drugged, overstressed birds together in a filthy, waste-coated room is not very healthy. Beyond deformities, eye damage,… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
The factory farm has succeeded by divorcing people from their food, eliminating farmers, and ruling agriculture by corporate fiat. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Factory farmers talk about their desire to feed the world. That's not what they're doing. They're feeding the world with really, really… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Choosing leaf or flesh, factory farm or family farm, does not in itself change the world, but teaching ourselves, our children, our… — 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
Factory farming, of course, does not cause all the world's problems, but is is remarkable just how many of them intersect there. — 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