American - Writer | February 21, 1977 -
That's the nice thing about being a vegetarian. You don't have to be neurotic. Selective omnivores have to be neurotic. Personally, I don't have time for all that; I don't want to get into it.
Jonathan Safran Foer
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Why do I write? It's not that I want people to think I am smart, or even that I am a good writer. I write because I want to end my loneliness.
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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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Feeding my children is not like feeding myself: it matters more.
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My children not only inspired me to reconsider what kind of eating animal I would be, but also shamed me into reconsideration.
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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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To remember my values, I need to lose certain tastes and find other handles for the memories that they once helped me carry.
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As a writer, putting words on the page is how I pay attention.
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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 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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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.
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It's hard to draw clear lines between writing and life and I don't think it is necessary to or necessarily good to.
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