--- title: "17 Factories Quotes By Jonathan Safran Foer" description: "17 Factories quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer. Plus more from Jonathan Safran Foer and more Factories sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/06c/jonathan-safran-foer-136_causes_factory-farming-of-course-does-not-cause_3156270.png" --- > [Factory farming, of course, does not cause all the world's problems, but is is remarkable just how many of them intersect there.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-safran-foer/factory-farming-of-course-does-not-cause-all-the-world-s-problems-but/) [Jonathan Safran Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-safran-foer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/06c/jonathan-safran-foer-136_causes_factory-farming-of-course-does-not-cause_3156270.png) > [The factory farm has succeeded by divorcing people from their food, eliminating farmers, and ruling agriculture by corporate fiat.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-safran-foer/the-factory-farm-has-succeeded-by-divorcing-people-from-their-food/) [Jonathan Safran Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-safran-foer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/80e/jonathan-safran-foer-136_agriculture_the-factory-farm-has-succeeded-by-divorc_2885671.png) > [Choosing leaf or flesh, factory farm or family farm, does not in itself change the world, but teaching ourselves, our children, our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-safran-foer/choosing-leaf-or-flesh-factory-farm-or-family-farm-does-not-in-itself/) [Jonathan Safran Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-safran-foer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/05f/jonathan-safran-foer-136_change-the-world_choosing-leaf-or-flesh-factory-farm-or-f_3081607.png) > [When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-safran-foer/when-we-eat-factory-farmed-meat-we-live-literally-on-tortured-flesh/) [Jonathan Safran Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-safran-foer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b7b/jonathan-safran-foer-136_becoming_when-we-eat-factory-farmed-meat-we-live_1134163.png) > [The more exposure people have to the realities of factory farming, the more we will see people rejecting it. It's already happening.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-safran-foer/the-more-exposure-people-have-to-the-realities-of-factory-farming-the/) [Jonathan Safran Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-safran-foer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5ca/jonathan-safran-foer-136_animal_the-more-exposure-people-have-to-the-rea_1067464.png) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-safran-foer/factory-farmers-talk-about-their-desire-to-feed-the-world-that-s-not/) [Jonathan Safran Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-safran-foer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0e9/jonathan-safran-foer-136_desire_factory-farmers-talk-about-their-desire_2901300.jpg) > [Every factory-farmed animal is, as a practice, treated in ways that would be illegal if it were a dog or a cat.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-safran-foer/every-factory-farmed-animal-is-as-a-practice-treated-in-ways-that/) [Jonathan Safran Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-safran-foer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0dc/jonathan-safran-foer-136_animal_every-factory-farmed-animal-is-as-a-prac_1151381.png) > [Ninety-nine percent of all land animals eaten or used to produce milk and eggs in the United States are factory farmed. So…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-safran-foer/ninety-nine-percent-of-all-land-animals-eaten-or-used-to-produce-milk/) [Jonathan Safran Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-safran-foer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/21b/jonathan-safran-foer-136_animal_ninety-nine-percent-of-all-land-animals_644315.png) > [We can't plead ignorance, only indifference. Those alive today are the generations that came to know better. We have the burden and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-safran-foer/we-can-t-plead-ignorance-only-indifference-those-alive-today-are-the/) [Jonathan Safran Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-safran-foer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/827/jonathan-safran-foer-136_alive_we-can-t-plead-ignorance-only-indifferen_3126903.jpg) > [There is a glaring reason that the necessary total ban on nontherapeutic use of antibiotics hasn't happened: The factory farm industry, allied…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-safran-foer/there-is-a-glaring-reason-that-the-necessary-total-ban-on/) [Jonathan Safran Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-safran-foer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c70/jonathan-safran-foer-136_antibiotics_there-is-a-glaring-reason-that-the-neces_1307203.jpg) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-safran-foer/it-shouldn-t-be-the-consumer-s-responsibility-to-figure-out-what-s/) [Jonathan Safran Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-safran-foer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7a6/jonathan-safran-foer-136_animal_it-shouldn-t-be-the-consumer-s-responsib_1465795.png) > [There is an overabundance of rational reasons to say no to factory-farmed meat: It is the No. 1 cause of global warming,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-safran-foer/there-is-an-overabundance-of-rational-reasons-to-say-no-to-factory/) [Jonathan Safran Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-safran-foer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/929/jonathan-safran-foer-136_animal_there-is-an-overabundance-of-rational-re_289845.jpg) > [We know, at least, that this decision (ending factory farming) will help prevent deforestation, curb global warming, reduce pollution, save oil reserves,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-safran-foer/we-know-at-least-that-this-decision-ending-factory-farming-will-help/) [Jonathan Safran Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-safran-foer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/61a/jonathan-safran-foer-136_abuse_we-know-at-least-that-this-decision-endi_2297933.png) > [Needless to say, jamming deformed, drugged, overstressed birds together in a filthy, waste-coated room is not very healthy. Beyond deformities, eye damage,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-safran-foer/needless-to-say-jamming-deformed-drugged-overstressed-birds-together/) [Jonathan Safran Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-safran-foer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a66/jonathan-safran-foer-136_anemia_needless-to-say-jamming-deformed-drugged_2571326.png) > [Perhaps in the back of our minds we already understand, without all the science I've discussed, that something terribly wrong is happening.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-safran-foer/perhaps-in-the-back-of-our-minds-we-already-understand-without-all/) [Jonathan Safran Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-safran-foer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ee6/jonathan-safran-foer-136_becoming_perhaps-in-the-back-of-our-minds-we-alre_829304.png) > [However much we obfuscate or ignore it, we know that the factory farm is inhumane in the deepest sense of the word.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-safran-foer/however-much-we-obfuscate-or-ignore-it-we-know-that-the-factory-farm/) [Jonathan Safran Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-safran-foer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/55e/jonathan-safran-foer-136_animal_however-much-we-obfuscate-or-ignore-it-w_988022.jpg) > [What the meat industry figured out is that you don't need healthy animals to make a profit. Sick animals are more profitable...…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-safran-foer/what-the-meat-industry-figured-out-is-that-you-don-t-need-healthy/) [Jonathan Safran Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-safran-foer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/71c/jonathan-safran-foer-136_animal_what-the-meat-industry-figured-out-is-th_493991.jpg) ## Other authors on Factories ## More by Jonathan Safran Foer > [This brings me back to the image of Kafka standing before a fish in the Berlin aquarium, a fish on which his gaze fell…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-safran-foer/this-brings-me-back-to-the-image-of-kafka-standing-before-a-fish-in/) [Jonathan Safran Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-safran-foer/) > [I try not to remember the life that I didn’t want to lose but lost and have to remember](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-safran-foer/i-try-not-to-remember-the-life-that-i-didn-t-want-to-lose-but-lost/) [Jonathan Safran Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-safran-foer/) > [“I have an aristocratic smile and like to punch people.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-safran-foer/i-have-an-aristocratic-smile-and-like-to-punch-people/) [Jonathan Safran Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-safran-foer/) > [He removed several pages of death certificates, which were picked up by another breeze and sent into the trees. Some would fall with the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-safran-foer/he-removed-several-pages-of-death-certificates-which-were-picked-up/) [Jonathan Safran Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-safran-foer/) > [I would have done anything for him. Maybe that was my sickness. We made love in nothing places and turned the lights off. It…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-safran-foer/i-would-have-done-anything-for-him-maybe-that-was-my-sickness-we-made/) [Jonathan Safran Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-safran-foer/) > [“One day I wandered away from her and hid. I liked the way it felt to have someone look for me, to hear my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-safran-foer/one-day-i-wandered-away-from-her-and-hid-i-liked-the-way-it-felt-to/) [Jonathan Safran Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-safran-foer/) > [If nothing matters, there's nothing to save.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-safran-foer/if-nothing-matters-there-s-nothing-to-save/) [Jonathan Safran Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-safran-foer/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-safran-foer/it-was-one-of-the-best-days-of-my-life-a-day-during-which-i-lived-my/) [Jonathan Safran Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-safran-foer/) > [“The appearance was misleading- human dreams; rubbish heaps abundant yet ephemeral sudden and splendid, only to wilt and perish”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-safran-foer/the-appearance-was-misleading-human-dreams-rubbish-heaps-abundant-yet/) [Jonathan Safran Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-safran-foer/) > [“the entirety of human society and moral progress represents an explicit transcendence of what’s “natural.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-safran-foer/the-entirety-of-human-society-and-moral-progress-represents-an/) [Jonathan Safran Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-safran-foer/) > [“Food is not so much a symbol of freedom as the first requirement of freedom. We eat foods that are native to America on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-safran-foer/food-is-not-so-much-a-symbol-of-freedom-as-the-first-requirement-of/) [Jonathan Safran Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-safran-foer/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-safran-foer/rationally-factory-farming-is-so-obviously-wrong-in-so-many-ways-in/) [Jonathan Safran Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-safran-foer/) > [Just because you're an atheist, that doesn't mean you wouldn't love for things to have reasons for why they are.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-safran-foer/just-because-you-re-an-atheist-that-doesn-t-mean-you-wouldn-t-love/) [Jonathan Safran Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-safran-foer/) > [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?…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-safran-foer/do-you-think-i-m-wonderful-she-asked-him-one-day-as-they-leaned/) [Jonathan Safran Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-safran-foer/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-safran-foer/my-insides-don-t-match-up-with-my-outsides-do-anyone-s-inside-and/) [Jonathan Safran Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-safran-foer/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/factories/jonathan-safran-foer/#itemlist", "name": "17 Factories Quotes By Jonathan Safran Foer", "numberOfItems": 17, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Factory farming, of course, does not cause all the world's problems, but is is remarkable just how many of them intersect there.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Jonathan Safran Foer" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-safran-foer/factory-farming-of-course-does-not-cause-all-the-world-s-problems-but/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/06c/jonathan-safran-foer-136_causes_factory-farming-of-course-does-not-cause_3156270.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/06c/jonathan-safran-foer-136_causes_factory-farming-of-course-does-not-cause_3156270.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/06c/jonathan-safran-foer-136_causes_factory-farming-of-course-does-not-cause_3156270.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Factory farming, of course, does not cause all the world's problems, but is is remarkable just how many of…” — Jonathan Safran Foer", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The factory farm has succeeded by divorcing people from their food, eliminating farmers, and ruling agriculture by corporate fiat.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Jonathan Safran Foer" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-safran-foer/the-factory-farm-has-succeeded-by-divorcing-people-from-their-food/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/80e/jonathan-safran-foer-136_agriculture_the-factory-farm-has-succeeded-by-divorc_2885671.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/80e/jonathan-safran-foer-136_agriculture_the-factory-farm-has-succeeded-by-divorc_2885671.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/80e/jonathan-safran-foer-136_agriculture_the-factory-farm-has-succeeded-by-divorc_2885671.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The factory farm has succeeded by divorcing people from their food, eliminating farmers, and ruling…” — Jonathan Safran Foer", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Choosing leaf or flesh, factory farm or family farm, does not in itself change the world, but teaching ourselves, our children, our local communities, and our nation to choose conscience over ease can.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Jonathan Safran Foer" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-safran-foer/choosing-leaf-or-flesh-factory-farm-or-family-farm-does-not-in-itself/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/05f/jonathan-safran-foer-136_change-the-world_choosing-leaf-or-flesh-factory-farm-or-f_3081607.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/05f/jonathan-safran-foer-136_change-the-world_choosing-leaf-or-flesh-factory-farm-or-f_3081607.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/05f/jonathan-safran-foer-136_change-the-world_choosing-leaf-or-flesh-factory-farm-or-f_3081607.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Choosing leaf or flesh, factory farm or family farm, does not in itself change the world, but teaching…” — Jonathan Safran Foer", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. 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