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 important exceptions, to speak about eating animals today is to speak about factory farming.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERFiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?
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You are the only one who has understood even a whisper of me, and I will tell you that I am the only person who has understood even a whisper of you.
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One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.
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I can forgive you for leaving, but not for coming back.
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Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.
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I try not to remember the life that I didn’t want to lose but lost and have to remember,
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Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn’t have to invent a thing.
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When I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder. Everything moved me. A dog following a stranger. That made me feel so much.
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She extended a hand that I didn’t know how to take, so I broke its fingers with my silence.
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Every moment before this one depends on this one.
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Do you eat chicken because you are familiar with the scientific literature on them and have decided that their suffering doesn’t matter, or do you do it because it tastes good?
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Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.
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If the thrill of hunting were in the hunt, or even in the marksmanship, a camera would do just as well.
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And she would say, “Today you believe in God?” And he would say, “Today I believe in love”.
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She laughed enough to migrate an entire flock of birds. That was how she said yes.
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