It made me start to wonder if there were other people so lonely so close. I thought about โEleanor Rigby.โ Itโs true, where do they all come from? And where do they all belong?
Jonathan Safran FoerOur relationship to the environment matters, our relationship to animals matters, and our relationship to culture matters.
Jonathan Safran FoerBut when, at the end of my sophomore year, I became a philosophy major and started doing my first seriously pretentious thinking, I became a vegetarian again. The kind of willful forgetting that I was sure meat eating required felt too paradoxical to the intellectual life I was trying to shape. I thought life could, should, and must conform to the mold of reason. You can imagine how annoying this made me.
Jonathan Safran FoerIt's a good rule of thumb, it seems to me: if you're not allowed to see where something comes from, don't put it in your mouth.
Jonathan Safran FoerWe 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 strongly we will want to follow our best instincts.
Jonathan Safran Foer