Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes about Suffering

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Just how destructive does a culinary preference have to be before we decide to eat something else? If contributing to the suffering of billions of animals that live miserable lives and (quite often) die in horrific ways

Just how destructive does a culinary preference have to be before we decide to eat something else? If contributing to the suffering of billions of animals that live miserable lives and (quite often) die in horrific ways isn't motivating, what would be? If being the number one contributor to the most serious threat facing the planet (global warming) isn't enough, what is? And if you are tempted to put off these questions of conscience, to say not now, then when?

Jonathan Safran Foer

Animal, Numbers, Suffering

The end of suffering does not justify the suffering, and so there is no end to suffering.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Suffering, Doe, Ends

Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.33, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Do you eat chicken because you are familiar with the scientific literature on them and have decided that their suffering doesn't matter, or do you do it because it tastes good?

Jonathan Safran Foer

Suffering, Literature, Matter

What is suffering? I'm not sure what it is, but I know that suffering is the name we give to the origin of all the sighs, screams, and groans — small and large, crude and multifaceted — that concern us. The word defines our gaze even more than what we are looking at.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Names, Giving, Suffering

"Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, 2009.

There is an overabundance of rational reasons to say no to factory-farmed meat: It is the No. 1 cause of global warming, it systematically forces tens of billions of animals to suffer in ways that would be illegal if they were dogs, it is a decisive factor in the development of swine and avian flus, and so on.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Dog, Animal, Suffering

We are breeding creatures incapable of surviving in any place other than the most artificial settings. We have focused the awesome power of modern genetic knowledge to bring into being animals that suffer more.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Animal, Suffering, Modern

Jonathan Safran Foer (2010). “Eating Animals”, p.134, Penguin UK

I wanted to cry but I didn't, I probably should have cried, I should have drowned us there in the room ending our suffering.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Should Have, Suffering, Rooms

Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.124, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The end of suffering does not justify the suffering, what a mess I am, I thought, what a fool, how foolish and narrow, how worthless, how pinched and pathetic, how helpless.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Suffering, Doe, Fool

Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.33, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt