Jonathan Safran Foer

it’s a bad mistake to confuse something unpleasant with something wrong.

It’s always possible to
wake someone from sleep, but no amount of noise will wake someone who is pretending to be
asleep.

From 1935 to 1995, the average weight of “broilers” increased by 65 percent,
while their time-to-market dropped 60 percent and their feed requirements dropped 57 percent.
To gain a sense of the radicalness of this change, imagine human children growing to be three
hundred pounds in ten years, while eating only granola bars and Flintstones vitamins.

men do all they can in order
to dissimulate this cruelty or to hide it from themselves, in order to organize on a
global scale the forgetting or misunderstanding of this violence.

e’re messing with the genes of these animals and then feeding them growth
hormones and all kinds of drugs that we really don’t know enough about. And then we’re eating
them. Kids today are the first generation to grow up on this stuff, and we’re making a science
experiment out of them. Isn’

Isn’t it strange how upset people get about a few dozen baseball players
taking growth hormones, when we’re doing what we’re doing to our food animals and feeding them
to our children?

you can’t do it right, don’t do it.

I’ll tell
you another thing: if consumers don’t want to pay the farmer to do it right, they shouldn’t eat meat.

KFC chickens are almost always killed in thirty-
nine days. They’re babies.

Salatin’s organic free-range chicken is
killed in forty-two days. ’Cause it’s still the same chicken.