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Jonathan Safran Foer

Jonathan Safran Foer is an American novelist. He is best known for his novels Everything Is Illuminated (2002), Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005), and for his non-fiction work Eating Animals (2009). His most recent novel, Here I Am, was published in 2016. He teaches creative writing at New York University.
years of life: 21 February 1977 present

Quotes

Daria Honcharovahas quoted2 years ago
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.
Daria Honcharovahas quoted2 years ago
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.
Daria Honcharovahas quoted2 years ago
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’

Impressions

godmakeupurmindshared an impression2 years ago
👍Worth reading

This was really good in the best traditions of Foer style

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