Quotes from Jonathan Safran Foer

And then, when the public had been made private, he would carry away the shame. But to where? Every landmass is surrounded by water. Was every coast an eruv? Was the equator an eruv around the earth? Did Pluto's orbit enclose the solar system? And the wedding ring still on his finger?

Seven months later, June 18, 1941, as the first display of German bombing lit the Trachimbrod skies electric, as my grandfather had his first orgasm (his first and only pleasure, of which she was not the cause), she slit her wrist with a knife that had been made dull carving love letters.

For meat, milk, and eggs labelled organic, animals must: 1) be raised on organic feed (without most synthetic pesticides/fertilizers) 2) be traced 3) not be fed antibiotics or growth hormones 4) have access to the outdoors

We all choose things, and we also all choose against things. I want to e the kind of person who chooses for more than chooses against...

I love that story, because it shows how ignorant people can be. And also because I love tortoises.

Wat gebeurt er met alle mannelijke kuikens van legkippen? Als de mens ze niet heeft aangepast voor de vleesproductie en de natuur ze overduidelijk niet heeft gemaakt om eieren te leggen, welke functie hebben ze dan? Ze hebben geen functie. Daarom worden alle haantjes - de helft van alle legkippen die ter wereld komen; meer dan 250 miljoen kuikens per jaar - vernietigd. De meeste haantjes worden vernietigd door ze via een buizenstelsel naar een elektrocuteerplaat te zuigen.

From 1935 to 1995, the average weight of broilers increased by 65%, while their time-to-market dropped 60% and their feed requirements dropped 57%. To gain a sense of the radicalness of this change, imagine human children growing to be 300 pounds in 10 years, while eating only granola bars and Flintstones vitamins.

We have let the factory farm replace farming for the same reasons our cultures have relegated minorities to being second-class members of society and kept women under the power of men. We treat animals as we do because we want to and can.

We made safe places in the apartment where you could go and not exist.

Maybe that's what a person's personality is: the difference between the inside and outside.

I observed that the hero had small rivers descending his face, and I wanted to put my hand on his face, to be architecture for him

Animal agriculture is now dominated by the factory farm- 99.9% of chickens raised for meat, 97% of laying hens, 99% of turkeys, 95% of pigs, and 78% of cattle.

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Peki güzel ÅŸark?lar neden üzüyor seni? Gerçek olmad?klar? için. Hiç mi? Hiçbir ÅŸey hem gerçek hem de güzel deÄŸildir.

Mencils?" "Pencils for men.

The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) calculated 24.6 million pounds of antibiotics were fed to chickens, pigs, and other farmed animals, only counting nontherapeutic uses.

Every morning, she'd clean me of my excrement, bathe me, dress me, and see that my hair was combed like a sane man's, even when it meant an elbow to the nose or a broken rib. She polished the blade. She wore my teeth marks on her body like other wives might wear jewelry. The hole didn't' matter. We paid it no attention. We shared a room. She was with me. She did all of those things and so many more, things I would never tell anyone, and she never even loved me. Now that's love.

But I knew that there couldn't be pockets that enormous. In the end, everyone loses everyone.

In 1930, more than 20% of the American population was employed in agriculture. Today it's less than 2%.

laughed with him over black coffee, cried with him over yellowing pictures, talked greenly about having kids of her own

I don't speak," he wrote, "I'm sorry.

This was a troublesome supplication, because at the dawn of July, Ukraine was to celebrate the first birthday of its ultramodern constitution, which makes us feel very nationalistic, and so many people would be on vacation in foreign places.

Quizá no exista la carne. En su lugar, existe este animal, criado en esta granja, sacrificado en esta planta, vendido de este modo y consumido por esta persona.

It's better to lose something than never to have had