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Jonathan Safran Foer
Jonathan Safran Foer
American Writer
Born: Feb 21, 1977
About People Think Time World You
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Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, craving and identity. Jonathan Safran Foer
Food Culture Rational Habit Identity Craving
Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness? Jonathan Safran Foer
Happiness Dog Does Fill Why Watching
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. Jonathan Safran Foer
Great Parenting You Become Analogy Worst Kids Independent Parent Like Also Real Tragedy Up Want Your Grow Grow Up Need Nightmare
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? Jonathan Safran Foer
Relationship Animal Cooking Book World Hero Animals Few Illustration Every Recipes Local Our Bookstore Section Paradoxical About More Only Feet Just Children Then Cookbook Illuminating Away
These little daily choices that we're so used to thinking are irrelevant are the most important thing we do all day long. Jonathan Safran Foer
Day Daily Long Important Thinking All Day Most Most Important Thing Important Thing Irrelevant The Most Important Little Choices Used Thing
People who care about animals tend to care about people. They don't care about animals to the exclusion of people. Caring is not a finite resource and, even more than that, it's like a muscle: the more you exercise it, the stronger it gets. Jonathan Safran Foer
You People Care Stronger Animals Resource Caring About More Tend Finite Exclusion Like Exercise Than dont Care Gets Who Even Muscle
I have made my own choice, which is vegetarianism, but it's not the choice I'm imposing on anybody else. Jonathan Safran Foer
Made Own Else My Own Vegetarianism Imposing Anybody Anybody Else Which Choice
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. Jonathan Safran Foer
Angry Hate People Care Somebody Enough Indifferent Rather Passionate Up Than dont Care Get Worked
Is there really anyone, besides Rudy Giuliani, who prefers the new Times Square? Jonathan Safran Foer
Besides New Square Times Times Square Anyone Really Who
I've never particularly liked bankers. Jonathan Safran Foer
Never Liked Particularly Bankers
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. Jonathan Safran Foer
Life Funny Me Disappointment People Inevitable Real Life Assume Funny People Meeting Books Because Real
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
Me Animal Kind Would Would-Be Reconsider Eating Only Shamed Inspired Also Children
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. Jonathan Safran Foer
Time Decision Wife Made Our Make Another Another Time Up Children Different Place Realities Might Us Choice Moment Chosen Compelled Present Present Moment Bring
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
Power Farm Total More More Power Allied Factory Glaring Industry Antibiotics Ban Than Happened Use Reason Professionals Pharmaceutical Pharmaceutical Industry Necessary
We need a better way to talk about eating animals, a way that doesn't ignore or even just shruggingly accept things like habits, cravings, family and history but rather incorporates them into the conversation. The more they are allowed in, the more able we will be to follow our best instincts. Jonathan Safran Foer
Best Family History Conversation Better Will Animals Our Way Follow Able Eating About Rather More Habits Allowed Better Way Instincts Like Talk Accept Just Them Ignore Even Things Need
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. Jonathan Safran Foer
Dog Better Sometimes Ethics Think Vegetarian Hot Hot Dog Call Mostly Occasionally Am Off
It's hard to draw clear lines between writing and life and I don't think it is necessary to or necessarily good to. Jonathan Safran Foer
Life Good Writing Think Draw Clear Between Lines Hard Necessarily Necessary
Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly. Jonathan Safran Foer
Strongly Something Feel Reader Makes Fiction Works
I want to talk about God in a literary way. But I think I would have a very hard time praying to God. Jonathan Safran Foer
God Time Think Way Would About Talk Praying Very Want Literary Hard Hard Time
It's not worth getting too excited about thinking about the larger picture. The larger picture doesn't come into focus for an awfully long time. Jonathan Safran Foer
Time Worth Focus Long Long Time Picture Thinking Too About Excited Come Getting Larger
What the world does not need is a Haggadah that pats itself on the back. It needs a Haggadah that gets out of the way, that starts a conversation and gets out of the way. Jonathan Safran Foer
Needs Conversation World Starts Back Way Out Does Itself Gets Need
The more exposure people have to the realities of factory farming, the more we will see people rejecting it. It's already happening. Jonathan Safran Foer
People Will See More Factory Happening Realities Farming Exposure Rejecting
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. Jonathan Safran Foer
Day Change World Debate Matter Will Animals Luxurious One Day Able Eat Wrong Question Maybe Being Whether Inherently Now Right Position
Consumers are going to have get used to eating less meat - to paying more for better quality meat and eating significantly less of it. Jonathan Safran Foer
Quality Better Eating More Better Quality Consumers Get Going Used Paying Less Meat
I know lots and lots and lots of vegetarians who think it's perfectly all right to kill animals for food to eat, but don't do it because they think all the ways in which it's done are wrong. Jonathan Safran Foer
Food Animals Think Ways Eat Wrong Perfectly Know Because Lots Lots And Lots Done Which Who Right
All really great artists, Jackson Pollack, John Cage, Beckett or Joyce - you are never indifferent to them. Jonathan Safran Foer
Great You John Indifferent Never Cage Joyce Beckett Jackson Artists Them Really
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