Few people sufficiently appreciate the colossal task of feeding a world of billions of omnivores who demand meat with their potatoes. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
If people thought about food more like how we think about the environment, a lot of people would be eating differently and… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
It made me start to wonder if there were other people so lonely so close. I thought about “Eleanor Rigby.” It’s true,… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I'm not better than anyone, and I'm not trying to convince people to live by my standards of what's right. I'm trying… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Just to be a functioning adult in the world, we develop all of these layers of protection. When we see homeless people,… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I didn't intend to write about totems or people searching. I tried not to constrain myself, and this is what I ended… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
None of the ways people were talking about September 11 felt right to me. I don't buy into the way George W.… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
People always ask what a book is about, as if it has to be about something. I don't want to write books… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
We need enormous pockets, pockets big enough for our families and our friends, and even the people who aren't on our lists,… — 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
Why are entire flocks of industrial birds dying at once? And what about the people eating those birds? Just the other day,… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
You can see the most beautiful things from the observation deck of the Empire State Building. I read somewhere that people on… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Almost always when I told someone I was writing a book about "eating animals", they assumed, even without knowing anything about my… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Life is precious, so I ought to spend my days, you know, making sandwiches for homeless people and tending to the elderly… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
What? she said once to herself, and then once aloud, What? She felt a total displacement, like a spinning globe brought to… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I started inventing things, and then I couldn't stop, like beavers, which I know about. People think they cut down trees so… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Mom said, "His spirit is there," and that made me really angry. I told her, "Dad didn't have a spirit! He had… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
It will never be the case that people won't eat meat. I think it could conceivably be the case one day that… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I like to see people reunited, I like to see people run to each other, I like the kissing and the crying,… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I can't count the times that upon telling someone I am vegetarian, he or she responded by pointing out an inconsistency in… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
People who care about animals tend to care about people. They don't care about animals to the exclusion of people. Caring is… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
There are more obese people in the world than starving people. As China and India start to develop our eating habits -… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I watched the sheets breathe when she breathed, like how Dad used to say that trees inhale when people exhale, because I… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Look, taste is clearly the crudest of our senses: this is scientifically, objectively factual. It is less nuanced. Eyesight is extraordinary -… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I'm less worried about accomplishment - as younger people always can't help but be - and more concerned with spending my time… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
We say no to lots of things that would please us. I would like to punch people every now and then, but… — 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
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
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
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
“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
“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
“The appearance was misleading- human dreams; rubbish heaps abundant yet ephemeral sudden and splendid, only to wilt and perish” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share
“the entirety of human society and moral progress represents an explicit transcendence of what’s “natural.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share
“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
“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
Just because you're an atheist, that doesn't mean you wouldn't love for things to have reasons for why they are. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share
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?… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share
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… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share
