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" Few people sufficiently appreciate the colossal task of feeding a world of billions of omnivores who demand meat with their potatoes. "
Jonathan Safran Foer
World
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People
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" It's rarely talked about, but hunting for sport is just about as vile as we humans get. "
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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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" Maybe one day the world will change, that we'll be in a luxurious position of being able to debate whether or not it's inherently wrong to eat animals, but the question doesn't matter right now. "
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" I see myself as someone who makes things. Definitions have never done anything but constrain. "
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" There are two kinds of sculptures. There's the kind that subtracts: Michelangelo starts with a block of marble and chips away. And then there is the kind that adds, building with clay, piling it on. The way I write novels is to keep piling on and piling on and piling on. "
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" The Torah is the foundational text for Jewish law, but the Haggadah is our book of living memory. We are not merely telling a story here. We are being called to a radical act of empathy. Here we are, embarking on an ancient, perennial attempt to give human lives - our lives - dignity. "
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" Kids are a great analogy. You want your kids to grow up, and you don't want your kids to grow up. You want your kids to become independent of you, but it's also a parent's worst nightmare: That they won't need you. It's like the real tragedy of parenting. "
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" It's possible to make things that aren't just money-makers. Something wonderful for its own sake. "
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" The purpose of the Seder to my mind is to inspire conversations with your family about the human drama and hopefully transmit values to the next generation. I've always felt like this could be better. "
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" The French, who love their dogs, sometimes eat their horses. The Spanish, who love their horses, sometimes eat their cows. The Indians, who love their cows, sometimes eat their dogs. "
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" Consumers are going to have get used to eating less meat - to paying more for better quality meat and eating significantly less of it. "
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" Food is not just what we put in our mouths to fill up; it is culture and identity. Reason plays some role in our decisions about food, but it's rarely driving the car. "
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" Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness? "
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" There's never been a culture that wasn't obsessed with food. The sort of sad thing is that our obsession is no longer with food, but with the price of food. "
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" Literature has drawn a funny perimeter that other art forms haven't. "
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" In America right now, we use words like 'smart' to talk about bombs. American rhetoric is grounded in ideas of capital-G Good, capital-E Evil, and it's very clear who is on which side. But in a book you can do just the opposite. You can use all lower-case words. "
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" It seems entirely possible to me that horrible things can be going on without us becoming horrible people. "
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" I am an on-and-off vegetarian. Sometimes on, mostly off. I think it is better to be a vegetarian but occasionally, the call of the hot dog overpowers my ethics. "
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" I'm not funny. People assume that because my books are funny, I'll be funny in real life. It's the inevitable disappointment of meeting me. "
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" I have made my own choice, which is vegetarianism, but it's not the choice I'm imposing on anybody else. "
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" People don't care enough. They don't get worked up enough. They don't get angry enough. They don't get passionate enough. I'd rather somebody hate what I do than be indifferent to it. "
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" Feeding my children is not like feeding myself: it matters more. "
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" You write to please yourself, you write to move yourself, to engage yourself in the asking of questions that are important to you. "
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" When we talk about protecting our right to have guns, we are talking about protecting our right to shoot bullets. So what is it that's so important to shoot at? "
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" I see bad stuff on the street all the time that I don't do anything about. I do bad stuff myself all the time. The goal is not to somehow be perfect - that's silly, that's naive. The goal is to just recognize there are choices in front of us, and to try to make better ones. "
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" I often think about how my sons will come to know about September 11th. Something overheard? A newspaper image? In school? I would prefer that they learn about it from my wife and me, in a deliberate and safe way. But it's hard to imagine ever feeling ready to broach the subject without some impetus. "
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" To remember my values, I need to lose certain tastes and find other handles for the memories that they once helped me carry. "
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" All really great artists, Jackson Pollack, John Cage, Beckett or Joyce - you are never indifferent to them. "
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