Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Jonathan Safran Foer
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: February 21
Novelist
Writer
Washington
District of Columbia
Treated
Dog
Ways
Animal
Farmed
Practice
Factory
Every
Factories
Way
Illegal
Would
Cat

More quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer

Image
I said, 'I need to know how he died.' He flipped back and pointed at, 'Why?' So I can stop inventing how he died. I'm always inventing.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
I would have done anything for him. Maybe that was my sickness.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
Highs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they're nothing. So what's something? Being reliable is something. Being good.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
Why do beautiful songs make you sad?' 'Because they aren't true.' 'Never?' 'Nothing is beautiful and true.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
It was terrible. All of the things we couldn't share. The room was filled with conversations we weren't having.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
Stories about food are stories about us-our history and our values.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
The end of suffering does not justify the suffering, what a mess I am, I thought, what a fool, how foolish and narrow, how worthless, how pinched and pathetic, how helpless.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
What does it remember like?
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
We aren’t exactly emptying the oceans it’s more like clear-cutting a forest with thousands of species to create massive fields with one type of soybean.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
My insides don't match up with my outsides. Do anyone's inside and outsides match up? I don't know. I'm only me. Maybe that's what a person's personality is: the difference between the inside and the outside.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
I got tired, I told him. Not worn out, but worn through. Like one of those wives who wakes up one morning and says I can't bake any more bread.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
Something having been done just about everywhere just about always is no kind of justification for doing it now.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
She extended a hand that I didn't know how to take, so I broke its fingers with my silence.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
There is nothing wrong with compromising. Even if you compromise almost everything.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
Art can be very political but that can't be the purpose of art, it can't be the driving force. It isn't with any of the books that I love, anyway.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
Succotash my Balzac, dipshiitake.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
She laughed enough to migrate an entire flock of birds. That was how she said yes
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
I see myself as someone who makes things. Definitions have never done anything but constrain.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.
Jonathan Safran Foer