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Eat Quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer
- We eat as sons and daughters, as families, as communities, as generations, as nations, and increasingly as a globe. We can't stop our eating from…
- When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.
- The French, who love their dogs, sometimes eat their horses. The Spanish, who love their horses, sometimes eat their cows. The Indians, who love their…
- I'm a vegetarian. You're a what? I don't eat meat. How can you not eat meat? I just don't. He says he does not eat…
- Every widow wakes one morning, perhaps after years of pure and unwavering grieving, to realize she slept a good night's sleep, and will be able…
- 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…
- Perhaps in the back of our minds we already understand, without all the science I've discussed, that something terribly wrong is happening. Our sustenance now…
- 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…
- It can be challenge enough to have to eat with myself.
- Do you eat chicken because you are familiar with the scientific literature on them and have decided that their suffering doesn't matter, or do you…
- Ironically, the utterly unselective omnivore -- "I'm easy; I'll eat anything" -- can appear more socially sensitive than the individual who tries to eat in…
- 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…
- 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,…
- What kind of world would we create if three times a day we activated our compassion and reason as we sat down to eat, if…
More Eat Quotes
- What's the two things they tell you are healthiest to eat? Chicken and fish. You know what you should do? Combine them,… — Dave Attell
- I'm a mad Gummi fan. I always have Gummis in my trailer. But you can't eat too many because then you get… — Jensen Ackles
- I don't have any particular thing I do ritualistically. I do the same thing every day. I get up. Drink a lot… — Erykah Badu
- The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. — Lucille Ball
- I love food and feel that it is something that should be enjoyed. I eat whatever I want. I just don't overeat. — Tyra Banks
- In the hospital, I promised myself that I ever walked again, that I would eat well and swim every day. — Travis Barker
- I eat cheese and salami and a lot of fried chicken. I eat a big bag of oatmeal-raisin cookies every night and… — Ellen Barkin
- Since I had my gastric bypass surgery in 1998, I eat like a bird. Unfortunately, that bird is a California condor. — Roseanne Barr
- I'm a farmer now, and it's fantastic. My goal is to be totally self-sufficient and grow everything that I eat. There's something… — Roseanne Barr
- I love chicken. I would eat chicken fingers on Thanksgiving if it were socially acceptable. — Todd Barry
- I've been a vegetarian for years and years. I'm not judgemental about others who aren't, I just feel I cannot eat or… — Drew Barrymore
- I don't drink milk, and I don't eat bread, pasta or rice. But I eat a lot of meat, chicken, fish and… — Mikhail Baryshnikov