Chickens can do many things, but they cannot make sophisticated deals …

Jonathan Safran Foer
500 citations
Chickens can do many things, but they cannot make sophisticated deals with humans. ✨ Jonathan Safran Foer (2010). Eating Animals, p.84, Penguin UK
Humanity
23

More Author Quotes

I tried to think about other things. I tried to invent optimistic inventions. But the pessimistic ones were extremely loud. ✨ Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel … ▶
Not responding is a response--we are equally responsible for what we don't do. In the case of animal slaughter, to throw your hands in the air is to wrap your fingers around a knife handle.
One of the greatest opportunities to live our values-or betray them-lies in the food we put on our plates. ✨ Jonathan Safran Foer (2010). Eating Animals, p.212, Penguin UK
We aren’t exactly emptying the oceans; it’s more like clear-cutting a forest with thousands of species to create massive fields with one type of soybean. ✨ Eating Animals. Book by Jonathan Safran Foe … ▶
It would be refreshing to have a politician try to defend guns without any reference to the Second Amendment, but on the merits of guns.

Chickens can do many things, but they cannot make sophisticated deals with humans. ✨ Jonathan Safran Foer (2010). Eating Animals, p.84, Penguin UK

More Author Quotes

Most Cited Authors

The Best Quotes

Most Liked Authors

Curated Author Quotes