Becoming Quote by Jonathan Safran Foer

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…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

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…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

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…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“Many people who think nothing of buying factory-farmed ham or chicken from a supermarket are quick to condemn hunting; yet hunting is more defensible…

— Peter Singer

“But unlike all farmed meat, which requires the creation and maintenance of animals, dogs are practically begging to be eaten. Three to four million…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

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…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“The factory farm industry (in alliance with the pharmaceutical industry) currently has more power than public-health professionals... We give it to them. We have…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Every factory-farmed animal is, as a practice, treated in ways that would be illegal if it were a dog or a cat.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“Most simply put, someone who regularly eats factory-farmed animal products cannot call himself an environmentalist without divorcing that word from its meaning.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

We know, at least, that this decision (ending factory farming) will help prevent deforestation, curb global warming, reduce pollution, save oil reserves, lessen the…

— 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

The more exposure people have to the realities of factory farming, the more we will see people rejecting it. It's already happening.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Factory farming, of course, does not cause all the world's problems, but is is remarkable just how many of them intersect there.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

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…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Almost always when I told someone I was writing a book about "eating animals", they assumed, even without knowing anything about my views, that…

— Jonathan Safran Foer