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Eating Animals Quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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,…
More Eating Animals Quotes
- I'll never stop eating animals, I'm sure, but I do think that for the benefit of everyone, the time has come to… — Mark Bittman
- What people need to understand is, that if they are eating animals, they are promoting cruelty to animals. — Pamela Anderson
- It is not how we breed, keep and kill animals for human consumption that has been the impetus for vegetarianism for thousands… — Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
- If a man can control his body and mind and thereby refrains from eating animal flesh and wearing animal products, I say… — Gautama Buddha
- I personally don't like eating animals. I'm not the kind of person that tries to preach to other people. But, for me,… — Jake Shields
- I'm always active in trying to educate people when it comes to eating animal products, testing on animals, and the health benefits… — Daniel Johns
- Anyone who cares about the Earth - really cares - must stop eating animals. — Linda McCartney
- The wrongfulness, the immorality of eating animal food has been recognized by all mankind during all the conscious life of humanity. Why,… — Leo Tolstoy
- When a human being kills an animal for food, he is neglecting his own hunger for justice. — Isaac Bashevis Singer
- ...eating animals involves an intentional decision to participate in the suffering and death of nonhumans where there is no plausible moral justification. — Gary L. Francione
- Language is never fully trustworthy, but when it comes to eating animals, words are as often used to misdirect and camouflage as… — Jonathan Safran Foer
- Honestly, I would eat cardboard rather than go back to eating animals. — Ellen DeGeneres