We burned with love for ourselves, all of us, starters of the fire we suffered- our love was the affliction for which only our love was the cure.
Jonathan Safran FoerRead
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?
Interpretation
What this quote means
The quote questions our choices and their ethical implications, urging immediate reflection on the impact of our culinary preferences.
Jonathan Safran Foer's quote challenges us to consider the profound consequences of our food choices on both animal welfare and the environment. It emphasizes that the suffering of animals raised for food and the contribution of these choices to global warming should prompt urgent introspection and action. By asking when we will confront these moral dilemmas, Foer invites us to take responsibility for our diet and its effects on the planet.
Themes
FoodEthicsVeganismEnvironmentAnimal WelfareGlobal Warming
In practice
Example use cases
In a discussion about ethical eating, this quote can spark reflections on our food choices.
More from Jonathan Safran Foer
All quotes →Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled. Each second was two hundred yards, to be walked, crawled. You couldn't see the next hour, it was so far in the distance. Tomorrow was over the horizon, and would take an entire day to reach.
Jonathan Safran FoerRead
She was not crying Which surprised me very much But I understand now That she had found places For her melancholy That were behind more masks Than only her eyes
Jonathan Safran FoerRead
What do babies dream of? She must be dreaming of the before-life, just as I dream of the afterlife.
Jonathan Safran FoerRead
A few weeks after the worst day, I started writing lots of letters. I don't know why, but it was one of the only things that made my boots lighter.
Jonathan Safran FoerRead
What is being awake if not interpreting our dreams, or dreaming if not interpreting our wake?
Jonathan Safran FoerRead
Similar quotes
I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.
Clarence DarrowRead
Experience by itself is not science.
Edmund HusserlRead
Don't worry so much where you live but how you live. Make the family of man your family as well.
Edgar CayceRead
To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself. Whenever a man so concentrates his attention - on a landscape, a poem, a geometrical problem, an idol, or the True God - that he completely forgets his own ego and desires, he is praying. The primary task of the schoolteacher is to teach children, in a secular context, the technique of prayer.
W. H. AudenRead
You've seen what you've seen; you've felt what you've felt. Ideology is for people who don't trust their own experiences and perceptions of the world.
Douglas CouplandRead
Conscience doth make cowards of us all.
William ShakespeareRead