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Animal Quotes by 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 cause of climate…
- How would you judge an artist who mutilated animals in a gallery because it was visually arresting? How riveting would the sound of a tortured…
- Language is never fully trustworthy, but when it comes to eating animals, words are as often used to misdirect and camouflage as they are to…
- We are breeding creatures incapable of surviving in any place other than the most artificial settings. We have focused the awesome power of modern genetic…
- Ninety-nine percent of all land animals eaten or used to produce milk and eggs in the United States are factory farmed. So although there are…
- Every factory-farmed animal is, as a practice, treated in ways that would be illegal if it were a dog or a cat.
- People who care about animals tend to care about people. They don't care about animals to the exclusion of people. Caring is not a finite…
- There is an overabundance of rational reasons to say no to factory-farmed meat: It is the No. 1 cause of global warming, it systematically forces…
- Just about every children's book in my local bookstore has an animal for its hero. But then, only a few feet away in the cookbook…
- We need a better way to talk about eating animals, a way that doesn't ignore or even just shruggingly accept things like habits, cravings, family…
- Humans are the only animal that blushes, laughs, has religion, wages war, and kisses with lips. So in a way, the more you kiss with…
- ...only someone who'd never been an animal would put up a sign saying not to feed them....
- The animals are those things that God likes but doesn't love.
- Not responding is a response--we are equally responsible for what we don't do. In the case of animal slaughter, to throw your hands in the…
- We need a better way to talk about eating animals. We need a way that brings meat to the center of public discussion in the…
- Just how destructive does a culinary preference have to be before we decide to eat something else? If contributing to the suffering of billions of…
- We can't plead ignorance, only indifference. Those alive today are the generations that came to know better. We have the burden and the opportunity of…
- Imagine being served a plate of sushi. But this plate also holds all of the animals that were killed for your serving of sushi. The…
- Think of the beginning of the story of the beginning of everything: Adam (without Eve and without divine guidance) names the animals. Continuing his work,…
- Almost always when I told someone I was writing a book about "eating animals", they assumed, even without knowing anything about my views, that it…
- Whether we're talking about fish species, pigs, or some other eaten animal, is such suffering the most important thing in the world? Obviously not. But…
- 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 idea even more…
- This brings me back to the image of Kafka standing before a fish in the Berlin aquarium, a fish on which his gaze fell in…
- If we are not given the option to live without violence, we are given the choice to center our meals around harvest or slaughter, husbandry…
- Silently the animal catches our glance. The animal looks at us, and whether we look away (from the animal, our plate, our concern, ourselves) or…
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- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov
- If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men… — Francis of Assisi
- People are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile. — David Attenborough
- There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the problems of… — David Attenborough
- Birds are the most popular group in the animal kingdom. We feed them and tame them and think we know them. And… — David Attenborough
- The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual dependency between… — David Attenborough
- I'm not a propagandist, I'm not a polemicist; my primary interest is just looking at and trying to understand how animals work. — David Attenborough
- I'm not an animal lover if that means you think things are nice if you can pat them, but I am intoxicated… — David Attenborough
- If you watch animals objectively for any length of time, you're driven to the conclusion that their main aim in life is… — David Attenborough
- Steve Irwin did wonderful conservation work but I was uncomfortable about some of his stunts. Even if animals aren't aware that you… — David Attenborough