Food for her is not food, it is terror, dignity, gratitude, vengeance,…

Jonathan Safran Foer
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Food for her is not food, it is terror, dignity, gratitude, vengeance, joyfulness, humiliation, religion, history, and, of course, love. As if the fruit she always offered us were picked from the destroyed brances of out family tree. ✨ Eating Animals. Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, www.washingtonpost.com. March 4, 2010.
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