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Animals Quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer
- 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…
- 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…
- The animals are those things that God likes but doesn't love.
- 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…
- 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…
- My dream went all the way back to the beginning. The rain rose into the clouds, and the animals descended the ramp.
- What the meat industry figured out is that you don't need healthy animals to make a profit. Sick animals are more profitable... Factory farms calculate…
- Isn't it strange how upset people get about a few dozen baseball players taking growth hormones, when we're doing what were doing to our food…
- Cruelty...prefers abstraction. Some have tried to resolved this gap by hunting or butchering an animal themselves, as if those experiences might somehow legitimize the endeavor…
- Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose, keep in touch (or don't), care about birthdays, waste and lose time, brush their teeth,…
- It shouldn't be the consumer's responsibility to figure out what's cruel and what's kind, what's environmentally destructive and what's sustainable. Cruel and destructive food products…
More Animals Quotes
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway. — Mary Kay Ash
- 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
- 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
- The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- For better or worse, zoos are how most people come to know big or exotic animals. Few will ever see wild penguins… — Diane Ackerman
- We're losing biodiversity globally at an alarming rate, and we need a cornucopia of different plants and animals, for the planet's health… — Diane Ackerman