02c. 1977 ADThere are more places you haven't heard of then you're heard of!' I loved thatJonathan Safran Foer / quote ↗
03c. 1977 ADIt made me start to wonder if there were other people so lonely so close. I thought about “Eleanor Rigby.” It’s true, where do they all come from? And where do they all belong?Jonathan Safran Foer / quote ↗
04c. 1977 ADI brought the birdcages to the windows.I opened the windows, and opened the birdcages.I poured the fish down the drain.I took the dogs and cats downstairs and removed their collars.I released the insects onto the street.And the reptiles.And the mice.I told them, Go.All of you.Go.And they went.And they didn’t come backJonathan Safran Foer / quote ↗
05c. 1977 ADDeep down, the young are lonelier than the old.' I read that in a book somewhere and it's stuck in my head. Maybe it's true. Maybe it's not true. More likely, the young and the old are lonely in different ways, in their own ways...Jonathan Safran Foer / quote ↗
06c. 1977 ADWe are breeding creatures incapable of surviving in any place other than the most artificial settings. We have focused the awesome power of modern genetic knowledge to bring into being animals that suffer more.Jonathan Safran Foer / quote ↗
07c. 1977 ADWhat is suffering? I'm not sure what it is, but I know that suffering is the name we give to the origin of all the sighs, screams, and groans — small and large, crude and multifaceted — that concern us. The word defines our gaze even more than what we are looking at.Jonathan Safran Foer / quote ↗
08c. 1977 ADAnd how can you say I love you to someone you love? I rolled onto my side and fell asleep next to her. Here is the point of everything I have been trying to tell you, Oskar. It's always necessary.Jonathan Safran Foer / quote ↗
09c. 1977 ADI wanted to cry but I didn't, I probably should have cried, I should have drowned us there in the room ending our suffering.Jonathan Safran Foer / quote ↗
10c. 1977 ADI will walk without noise and I will open the door in darkness and I willJonathan Safran Foer / quote ↗
11c. 1977 ADShe wanted more, more slang, more figures of speech, the bee's knees, the cats pajamas, horse of a different color, dog-tired, she wanted to talk like she was born here, like she never came from anywhere elseJonathan Safran Foer / quote ↗
12c. 1977 AD...Food serves two parallel purposes: it nourishes and it helps you remember. Eating and storytelling are inseparable—the saltwater is also tears; the honey not only tastes sweet, but makes us think of sweetness; the matzo is the bread of our affliction.Jonathan Safran Foer / quote ↗
13c. 1977 ADHighs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they're nothing." "So what's something?" "Being reliable is something. Being good.Jonathan Safran Foer / quote ↗
14c. 1977 ADShe told him of ship voyages she had taken to places he had never heard of, and stories he knew were all untrue, were bad non-truths, even, but he nodded and tried to convince himself to be convinced, tried to believe her, because he knew that the origin of a story is always an absence, and he wanted her to live among presences.Jonathan Safran Foer / quote ↗
15c. 1977 ADElsewhere the paper notes that vegetarians and vegans (including athletes) 'meet and exceed requirements' for protein. And, to render the whole we-should-worry-about-getting-enough-protein-and-therefore-eat-meat idea even more useless, other data suggests that excess animal protein intake is linked with osteoporosis, kidney disease, calcium stones in the urinary tract, and some cancers. Despite some persistent confusion, it is clear that vegetarians and vegans tend to have more optimal protein consumption than omnivores.Jonathan Safran Foer / quote ↗
16c. 1977 ADIronically, the utterly unselective omnivore -- "I'm easy; I'll eat anything" -- can appear more socially sensitive than the individual who tries to eat in a way that is good for society.Jonathan Safran Foer / quote ↗
17c. 1977 ADWe need a better way to talk about eating animals. We need a way that brings meat to the center of public discussion in the same way it is often at the center of our plates. This doesn't require that we pretend we are going to have a collective agreement. However strong our intuitions are about what's right for us personally and even about what's right for others, we all know in advance that our positions will clash with those of our neighbors. What do we do with that most inevitable reality? Drop the conversation, or find a way to reframe it?Jonathan Safran Foer / quote ↗
19c. 1977 ADFood for her is not food, it is terror, dignity, gratitude, vengeance, joyfulness, humiliation, religion, history, and, of course, love. As if the fruit she always offered us were picked from the destroyed brances of out family tree.Jonathan Safran Foer / quote ↗
20c. 1977 ADBefore you rush off trying to see everything you can, educate yourself.Jonathan Safran Foer / quote ↗
21c. 1977 ADRationally, factory farming is so obviously wrong, in so many ways. In all of my reading and conversations, I've yet to find a credible defense of it. But food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, and identity.Jonathan Safran Foer / quote ↗
22c. 1977 ADShe extended a hand that I didn't know how to take, so I broke its fingers with my silence.Jonathan Safran Foer / quote ↗
24c. 1977 ADScientific studies and government records suggest that virtually all (upwards of 95 percent of) chickens become infected with E. coli (an indicator of fecal contamination) and between 39 and 75 percent of chickens in retail stores are still infected. Around 8 percent of birds become infected with salmonella (down from several years ago, when at least one in four birds was infected, which still occurs on some farms). Seventy to 90 percent are infected with another potentially deadly pathogen, campylobacter. Chlorine baths are commonly used to remove slime, odor, and bacteria.Of course, consumers might notice that their chickens don't taste quite right - how good could a drug-stuffed, disease-ridden, shit-contaminated animal possibly taste? - but the birds will be injected (or otherwise pumped up) with "broths" and salty solutions to give them what we have come to think of as the chicken look, smell, and taste. (A recent study by Consumer Reports found that chicken and turkey products, many labeled as natural, "ballooned with 10 to 30 percent of their weight as broth, flavoring, or water.Jonathan Safran Foer / quote ↗
