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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

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Jonathan Safran Foer
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: February 21
Novelist
Writer
Washington
District of Columbia
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Farming
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