Desire Quote by Jonathan Safran Foer

“Now, it's fair to say, the majority of us don't want to be farmers, see farmers, pay farmers, or hear their complaints. Except as…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Factory farming came about from a moral race to the bottom, with corporations vying against each other to produce more and bigger animals with…

— Matthew Scully

“On both sides, they've failed us...of course, we know about the industrialists. Their corn syrup and cheese product. Their factory farms ringed by rivers…

— Robin Sloan

(Farm workers) are involved in the planting and the cultivation and the harvesting of the greatest abundance of food known in this society. They…

— Cesar Chavez

Factory farming is the attitude that commodifies sentient life.

— Gene Baur

We have to understand that we want to pay the farmers the real price for the food that they produce. It won't ever be…

— Alice Waters

Farmers since the beginning of time have been feeding the world very successfully without systematically abusing animals or destroying the environment. But we're breeding…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Let's be honest, this is a consumer based economy in America. That's all we manufacture here is need and appetite. We are the world's…

— Marc Maron

“To accept the factory farm —to feed the food it produces to my family, to support it with my money —would make me less…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“Rationally, factory farming is so obviously wrong, in so many ways. In all of my reading and conversations, I’ve yet to find a credible…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Factory-farm lobbyists are so powerful and so well funded and they do everything in their power to hide the truth about farming. They keep…

— Moby

Factory farming isn't just killing: It is negation, a complete denial of the animal as a living being with his or her own needs…

— Matthew Scully