What the meat industry figured out is that you don't need healthy animals to make a profit. Sick animals are more profitable...
Factory farms calculate how close to death they can keep animals without killing them. That's the business model. How quickly they can be made to grow, how tightly they can be packed, how much or how little can they eat, how sick they can get without dying...We live in a world in which it's conventional to treat an animal like a block of wood.

Jonathan Safran Foer


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My insides don't match up with my outsides. -Do anyone's inside and outsides match up? -I don't know. I'm only me. -Maybe that's what a person's personality is: the difference between the inside and the outside.

Jonathan Safran Foer


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One weird thing is, I wonder if everyone's hearts would start to beat at the same time, like how women who live together have their menstrual periods at the same time, which I know about, but don't really want to know about.

Jonathan Safran Foer


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It was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn't think about my life at all.

Jonathan Safran Foer


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I have no need for the past, I thought, like a child. I did not consider that the past might have a need for me.

Jonathan Safran Foer


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She avoids mirrors, and lifts a powerful telescope to find herself.

Jonathan Safran Foer


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I have witnessed Grandfather cry, and I implore myself to say that I desire to never witness him cry again. If this signifies that I must do things for him so that he will not cry, then I will do those things. If this signifies that I must not look when he cries, then I will not look.

Jonathan Safran Foer


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This is love, she thought, isn’t it? When you notice someone’s absence and hate that absence more than anything? More, even, than you love his presence?

Jonathan Safran Foer


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Everything I did, I did because I thought it was the correct thing to do… I am not a hero, it is true… But I am not a bad person, either.

Jonathan Safran Foer


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You do not have to utter anything you do not want to utter,” I told her, and she said, “Then I would never utter another word again.” “You do not have to do anything that you do not want to do.” “Then I would never do anything again.

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