Chickens can do many things, but they cannot make sophisticated deals with humans. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
It's rarely talked about, but hunting for sport is just about as vile as we humans get. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
There has yet to be a human to survive a span of history without at least one end of the world. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Then I have some bad news for you, because humans are going to destroy each other as soon as it becomes easy… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
And also, there are so many times when you need to make a quick escape, but humans don't have their own wings,… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Humans are the only animal that blushes, laughs, has religion, wages war, and kisses with lips. So in a way, the more… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Anyway, the fascinating thing was that I read in National Geographic that there are more people alive now than have died in… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
September 11 had such a strong visual component, the most visually documented event in human history. Nothing's ever been seen by as… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
The Torah is the foundational text for Jewish law, but the Haggadah is our book of living memory. We are not merely… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I felt shame for living in a nation of unprecedented prosperity-a nation that spends a smaller percentage of income on food than… — 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
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 Copy Share Image
I asked her, "Are you an optimist or a pessimist?" She looked at her watch and said, "I'm optimistic." "Then I have… — 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
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
