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List of Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes

Explore our hand-picked selection of 580 inspiring quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer.

About Jonathan Safran Foer

  • Born: February 21, 1977
  • Occupation: Writer
    • Our relationship to the environment matters, our relationship to animals matters, and our relationship to culture matters.
    Animal Culture Matter
    Eating a piece of meat, at its most efficient, we could say is like throwing away six times that amount of food every time you eat it because you're recycling all those calories through it. i know a lot of people who came to this issue not through animal welfare but through wastefulness.
    Animal Issues People
    Raising your kids vegetarian is a great way to encourage them to do the opposite of what you want! but the goal is not to have them have the same values that i have. it's to have them act on their values.
    Kids Opposites Goal
    Hunting will never feed lots of people; it will always be a hobby.
    Hunting People Hobbies
    There are more obese people in the world than starving people. as china and india start to develop our eating habits - and not by accident but because agribusiness is going over there and imposing our habits on them - if the population doesn't increase at all, we'll have to raise twice as many animals as we do.
    Animal People World
    Ninety-eight percent of all the soy that's raised goes to livestock. so people make fun of vegetarians for being tofu eaters, but no one eats tofu like steak eaters, by a long shot. it's also funny that tofu is held up as what a vegetarian eats. i mean maybe i eat tofu once a month, but other than that, never. all of it, statistically speaking, is going to livestock.
    Fun Mean Ninety Eight
    The word vegetarian, i think, does a disservice because there are a lot of people who care but maybe don't care, or can't care in an ultimate way. if you think about environmentalism, nobody would ask, "are you an environmentalist or not?" the question doesn't make any sense.
    Thinking People Way
    If people thought about food more like how we think about the environment, a lot of people would be eating differently and the whole system would look a lot different.
    Thinking People Different
    None of the ways people were talking about september 11 felt right to me. i don't buy into the way george w. bush talks about it. i don't buy into the way the 9/11 commission talks about it. it isn't that i don't believe them. it's just that they're not the tellings for me.
    Believe Talking People
    One of the things that i love about writing novels is that it really doesn't matter what next step you take as long as you're pursuing some intuition or instinct. of course, then, intuitions or instincts don't make for great novels, but they often make for good first drafts.
    Writing Long Intuition
    I'm deeply curious about jewish things. i've toyed around with the idea of going to rabbinical school.
    School Ideas Curious
    Factory farmers talk about their desire to feed the world. that's not what they're doing. they're feeding the world with really, really cheap stuff.
    Desire World Stuff
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