"What kind of world would we create if……" — Jonathan Safran Foer
"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 we had the moral imagination and the pragmatic will to change our most fundamental act of consumption?"
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526 Quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer
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