Eating Animals

by Jonathan Safran Foer

food serves two parallel purposes: it nourishes and it helps you remember.

Stories establish narratives, and stories establish rules.

something having been done just about everywhere just about always is no kind of justification for doing it now.

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

when “one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular.” Sometimes we simply have to make a decision because “one’s conscience tells one that it is right.”