We know it (meat eating) is indisputably the number one cause of global warming. So what does it mean exactly to be an environmentalist on a daily basis if you are not thinking about the number one cause of global warming or one of the top two or three causes of all other environmental problems? Does it mean you are necessarily someone who doesn't care about the environment? Obviously not, but it might mean you have a blind spot for something big.
Jonathan Safran FoerIt's rarely talked about, but hunting for sport is just about as vile as we humans get.
Jonathan Safran FoerDear Anna, we will live in a home with no walls, so that everywhere we go will be our home.
Jonathan Safran FoerI woke up once in the middle of the night, and Buckminster's paws were on my eyelids. He must have been feeling my nightmares.
Jonathan Safran FoerThis is the sixty-nine," I told him, presenting the magazine in front of him. I put my fingers -- two of them -- on the action, so that he would not overlook it. "Why is it dubbed sixty-nine?" he asked, because he is a person hot on fire with curiosity. "It was invented in 1969. My friend Gregory knows a friend of the nephew of the inventor." "What did people do before 1969?" "Merely blowjobs and masticating box, but never in chorus.
Jonathan Safran Foer