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Factory Quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer
- When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.
- 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.
- The more exposure people have to the realities of factory farming, the more we will see people rejecting it. It's already happening.
- There is a glaring reason that the necessary total ban on nontherapeutic use of antibiotics hasn't happened: The factory farm industry, allied with the pharmaceutical…
- 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…
- 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…
- Choosing leaf or flesh, factory farm or family farm, does not in itself change the world, but teaching ourselves, our children, our local communities, and…
- 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…
- Needless to say, jamming deformed, drugged, overstressed birds together in a filthy, waste-coated room is not very healthy. Beyond deformities, eye damage, blindness, bacterial infections…
- We know, at least, that this decision (ending factory farming) will help prevent deforestation, curb global warming, reduce pollution, save oil reserves, lessen the burden…
- The factory farm has succeeded by divorcing people from their food, eliminating farmers, and ruling agriculture by corporate fiat.
- 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…
- However much we obfuscate or ignore it, we know that the factory farm is inhumane in the deepest sense of the word. And we know…
- 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 Factory Quotes
- One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed… — Warren G. Bennis
- I don't like to see animals in pain. That was very uncomfortable to me. I don't like factory farming. I'm not an… — Anthony Bourdain
- My father was an expert hunter, so we ate a lot of wild game when I was growing up in Montana. That… — Steve Albini
- If you are working 50 hours a week in a factory, you don't have time to read 10 newspapers a day and… — Noam Chomsky
- There have been household gods and household saints and household fairies. I am not sure that there have yet been any factory… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- I play for the poor man. I try to give a thrill to the lunch bucket fan. I know their plight. I… — Unknown Author
- We've seen those results in generations of Muslim immigrants - farmers and factory workers, helping to lay the railroads and build our… — Barack Obama
- Estiven Rodriguez couldn't speak a word of English when he moved to New York City at age nine. But last month, thanks… — Barack Obama
- The church must never become a government factory, carrying on a nationalized industry of religion with the people as the bolts and… — Unknown Author
- Instantly, the noise stopped. The whole room lay in perfect silence. The tire builders stood in long lines, touching each other, perfectly… — Ruth McKenney
- Shaped a little like a loaf of French country bread, our brain is a crowded chemistry lab, bustling with nonstop neural conversations.Imagine… — Diane Ackerman