Food Quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer

“(270,000 more people become hungry each day).”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

It can be challenge enough to have to eat with myself.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, and identity.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Succotash my Balzac, dipshiitake.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Stories about food are stories about us-our history and our values.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

I love sushi, I love fried chicken, I love steak. But there is a limit to my love,

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“And I’ll tell you another thing: if consumers don’t want to pay the farmer to do it right, they shouldn’t eat meat.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Not responding is a response - we are equally responsible for what we don't do.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, craving and identity.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“Vegetarians are at best kindly but unrealistic. At worst they are delusional sentimentalists.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“Every time you make a decision about food, Paul pleaded, quoting Berry, “you are farming by proxy.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

I have made my own choice, which is vegetarianism, but it's not the choice I'm imposing on anybody else.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Animal agriculture makes a 40% greater contribution to global warming than all transportation in the world combined; it is the number one…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

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

That's the nice thing about being a vegetarian. You don't have to be neurotic. Selective omnivores have to be neurotic. Personally, I…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

My wife and I have chosen to bring up our children as vegetarians. In another time or place, we might have made…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“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

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

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

There's never been a culture that wasn't obsessed with food. The sort of sad thing is that our obsession is no longer…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

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

The word vegetarian, I think, does a disservice because there are a lot of people who care but maybe don't care, or…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Elsewhere the paper notes that vegetarians and vegans (including athletes) 'meet and exceed requirements' for protein. And, to render the whole we-should-worry-about-getting-enough-protein-and-therefore-eat-meat…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

The UN special envoy on food called it a 'crime against humanity' to funnel 100 million tons of grain and corn to…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

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

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

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

Ninety-eight percent of all the soy that's raised goes to livestock. So people make fun of vegetarians for being tofu eaters, but…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“Scientific studies and government records suggest that virtually all (upwards of 95 percent of) chickens become infected with E. coli (an indicator…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

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

“The ADA takes a conservative stand, leaving out many well-documented health benefits attributable to reducing the consumption of animal products. Here are…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“omnivores contribute seven times the volume of greenhouse gases that vegans do.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Oh, I'd say I like a meal as much as anybody. But I find a certain kind of foodiness silly, gluttonous and…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

One of the greatest opportunities to live our values-or betray them-lies in the food we put on our plates.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

We believed in our grandmother’s cooking more fervently than we believed in God.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“Before you rush off trying to see everything you can, educate yourself.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

When it comes to meat, change is almost always cast as an absolute. You are a vegetarian or you are not.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

In high school I became a vegetarian more times than I can now remember, most often as an effort to claim some…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“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