Sometimes people who seem good end up being not as good as you might have hoped, you know? — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Again and again we are confronted with the reality - some might say the problem - of sharing our space with other… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
She was like a drowning person, flailing, reaching for anything that might save her. Her life was an urgent, desperate struggle to… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Imagine being served a plate of sushi. But this plate also holds all of the animals that were killed for your serving… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“I had no need for the past, I thought, like a child. I did not consider that the past might have a… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
[S]o if the device of the person in the ambulance detected the device of the person he loved the most, or the… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I am not sad, he would repeat to himself over and over, I am not sad. As if he might one day… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
We live in a world made up more of story than stuff. We are creatures of memory more than reminders, of love… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
...because he had been waiting for someone to come back to him, so every time someone knocked on the door, he couldn't… — 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
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 Copy Share Image
It might sound naive to suggest that whether you order a chicken patty or a veggie burger is a profoundly important decision.… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Every night before putting her to sleep, Yankel counts her ribs, as if one might have disappeared in the course of the… — 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
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