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Choosing leaf or flesh, factory farm or family farm, does not in itself change the world, but teaching ourselves, our children, our local communities, and our nation to choose conscience over ease can.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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Jonathan Safran Foer
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: February 21
Novelist
Writer
Washington
District of Columbia
Doe
Conscience
Factories
Children
Teaching
Farms
World
Choose
Choosing
Nation
Communities
Nations
Locals
Factory
Community
Local
Leafs
Family
Ease
Leaf
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Farm

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