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" There is an overabundance of rational reasons to say no to factory-farmed meat: It is the No. 1 cause of global warming, it systematically forces tens of billions of animals to suffer in ways that would be illegal if they were dogs, it is a decisive factor in the development of swine and avian flus, and so on. "

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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. "

Jonathan Safran Foer

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Car

" I'm less worried about accomplishment - as younger people always can't help but be - and more concerned with spending my time well, spending time with my family, and reading, learning things. "

" I need an office, so I can have a place where I don't write. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I have made my own choice, which is vegetarianism, but it's not the choice I'm imposing on anybody else. "

" 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. "

" My children not only inspired me to reconsider what kind of eating animal I would be, but also shamed me into reconsideration. "

Jonathan Safran Foer

Kind

Only

" Writers now are putting total faith in designers at Apple and Amazon. It's almost like a race-car driver having no input into how cars are designed. "

" Books are slow, books are quiet. The Internet is fast and loud. "

" 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. "

Jonathan Safran Foer

Reason

Antibiotics

" 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. "

Jonathan Safran Foer

Way

Just

" When you read something you have written, you have to confront some of the lies you have been telling yourself. "

" Again and again we are confronted with the reality - some might say the problem - of sharing our space with other living things, be they dogs, trees, fish or penguins. "

" My greatest fear is feeling like a professional novelist. Somebody who creates characters, who sits down and has pieces of paper taped to the wall - what's going to happen in this scene, or this act. What I like is for it to be a much more scary, sloppy reflection of who I am. "

" All really great artists, Jackson Pollack, John Cage, Beckett or Joyce - you are never indifferent to them. "

" Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us. "

" It would be refreshing to have a politician try to defend guns without any reference to the Second Amendment, but on the merits of guns. "

" To remember my values, I need to lose certain tastes and find other handles for the memories that they once helped me carry. "

Jonathan Safran Foer

Remember

Lose

" Just about every children's book in my local bookstore has an animal for its hero. But then, only a few feet away in the cookbook section, just about every cookbook includes recipes for cooking animals. Is there a more illuminating illustration of our paradoxical relationship with the nonhuman world? "

" It's hard to draw clear lines between writing and life and I don't think it is necessary to or necessarily good to. "

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

" I've never particularly liked bankers. "

" It's possible to make things that aren't just money-makers. Something wonderful for its own sake. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

Jonathan Safran Foer

Relationship

Work

" How could this world be so unlike the world that I believed I was living in? I can't describe it. Do I not want to describe it, or do I simply not possess the vocabulary? "