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" The question, I've come to think, is not what inspires one to change, but what inspires one to remain changed. "

Jonathan Safran Foer

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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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" In high school I became a vegetarian more times than I can now remember, most often as an effort to claim some identity in a world of people whose identities seemed to come effortlessly. "

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" There's no being wrong in seeing something in art, only being disagreed with. "

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" These little daily choices that we're so used to thinking are irrelevant are the most important thing we do all day long. "

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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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" Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly. "

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" There is a glaring reason that the necessary total ban on nontherapeutic use of antibiotics hasn't happened: The factory farm industry, allied with the pharmaceutical industry, has more power than public-health professionals. "

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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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" There are a lot of things that we crave, there are a lot of things that would make us perhaps more fulfilled in a sensory way that we just say no to. "

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" I think there's going to be something that happens now, where books move in two directions, one toward digitized formats and one toward remembering what's nice about the physicality of them. "

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" I will never come around to the idea of an anthropomorphic God. I'm also uncomfortable with the word 'God'... I'm agnostic about the answer and I'm agnostic about the question. "

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" Every factory-farmed animal is, as a practice, treated in ways that would be illegal if it were a dog or a cat. "

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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 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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" The more exposure people have to the realities of factory farming, the more we will see people rejecting it. It's already happening. "

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" Is there really anyone, besides Rudy Giuliani, who prefers the new Times Square? "

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" My wife and I have chosen to bring up our children as vegetarians. In another time or place, we might have made a different decision. But the realities of our present moment compelled us to make that choice. "

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" Oh, I'd say I like a meal as much as anybody. But I find a certain kind of foodiness silly, gluttonous and embarrassing. "

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" There is no greater gift than time. "

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" Look, taste is clearly the crudest of our senses: this is scientifically, objectively factual. It is less nuanced. Eyesight is extraordinary - hearing, touch. I find people who devote their whole lives to taste a little strange. "

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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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" 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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" When it comes to meat, change is almost always cast as an absolute. You are a vegetarian or you are not. "

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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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" Jews have a special relationship to books, and the Haggadah has been translated more widely, and reprinted more often, than any other Jewish book. It is not a work of history or philosophy, not a prayer book, user's manual, timeline, poem or palimpsest - and yet it is all these things. "

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" Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, craving and identity. "

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" Living on a planet of fixed size requires compromise, and while we are the only party capable of negotiating, we are not the only party at the table. We've never claimed more, and we've never had less. "

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" Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness? "

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