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American - Writer Born: February 21, 1977

Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, craving and identity.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Food Culture Identity Habit

Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?

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Happiness Dog Watching Why

Just about every children's book in my local bookstore has an animal for its hero. But then, only a few feet away in the cookbook section, just about every cookbook includes recipes for cooking animals. Is there a more illuminating illustration of our paradoxical relationship with the nonhuman world?

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Relationship Hero Children Cooking

These little daily choices that we're so used to thinking are irrelevant are the most important thing we do all day long.

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Day Daily Long Thinking

Why do I write? It's not that I want people to think I am smart, or even that I am a good writer. I write because I want to end my loneliness.

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Good Loneliness I Am People

People who care about animals tend to care about people. They don't care about animals to the exclusion of people. Caring is not a finite resource and, even more than that, it's like a muscle: the more you exercise it, the stronger it gets.

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You People Caring Care

Feeding my children is not like feeding myself: it matters more.

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Myself Children Like More

Food is not just what we put in our mouths to fill up; it is culture and identity. Reason plays some role in our decisions about food, but it's rarely driving the car.

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Car Food Culture Identity

I have made my own choice, which is vegetarianism, but it's not the choice I'm imposing on anybody else.

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My Own Choice Own Made

I usually write away from home, in coffee shops, on trains, on planes, in friends' houses. I like places where there's stuff going on that you can lift your eyes, see something interesting, overhear a conversation.

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Eyes Coffee Home You

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People don't care enough. They don't get worked up enough. They don't get angry enough. They don't get passionate enough. I'd rather somebody hate what I do than be indifferent to it.

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Angry People Hate Care

Is there really anyone, besides Rudy Giuliani, who prefers the new Times Square?

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New Who Times Square Really

I've never particularly liked bankers.

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Never Bankers Liked Particularly

The French, who love their dogs, sometimes eat their horses. The Spanish, who love their horses, sometimes eat their cows. The Indians, who love their cows, sometimes eat their dogs.

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Love Sometimes Eat Who

I'm not funny. People assume that because my books are funny, I'll be funny in real life. It's the inevitable disappointment of meeting me.

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Life Funny Me People

My children not only inspired me to reconsider what kind of eating animal I would be, but also shamed me into reconsideration.

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Me Children Animal Eating

My wife and I have chosen to bring up our children as vegetarians. In another time or place, we might have made a different decision. But the realities of our present moment compelled us to make that choice.

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Time Wife Moment Children

To remember my values, I need to lose certain tastes and find other handles for the memories that they once helped me carry.

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Memories Me Remember Lose

Every factory-farmed animal is, as a practice, treated in ways that would be illegal if it were a dog or a cat.

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Dog Animal Practice Cat

We eat as sons and daughters, as families, as communities, as generations, as nations, and increasingly as a globe. We can't stop our eating from radiating influence even if we want to.

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Eating Stop Influence Want

As a writer, putting words on the page is how I pay attention.

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Words Attention How Pay Attention

There is a glaring reason that the necessary total ban on nontherapeutic use of antibiotics hasn't happened: The factory farm industry, allied with the pharmaceutical industry, has more power than public-health professionals.

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Power Farm Reason More

We 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 able we will be to follow our best instincts.

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Family Best History Ignore

I am an on-and-off vegetarian. Sometimes on, mostly off. I think it is better to be a vegetarian but occasionally, the call of the hot dog overpowers my ethics.

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I Am Dog Ethics Hot

It's hard to draw clear lines between writing and life and I don't think it is necessary to or necessarily good to.

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Life Good Think Writing

There is no greater gift than time.

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Time Gift Than Greater

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