[b]Jonathan Safran Foer
What do babies dream of? She must be dreaming of the before-life, just as I dream of the afterlife.[/b]
Nope, never once dreamed of the afterlife. How about you?
Almost always when I told someone I was writing a book about “eating animals”, they assumed, even without knowing anything about my views, that it was a case for vegetarianism. It’s a telling assumption, one that implies not only that a thorough inquiry into animal agriculture would lead one away from eating meat, but that most people already know that to be the case.
Not counting chickens of course. And certainly not fish.
One of the greatest opportunities to live our values—or betray them—lies in the food we put on our plates.
Clearly then you are either one of us [the good people] or one of them [the bad].
She repeats things until they are true, or until she can’t tell whether they are true or not. She has become an expert at confusing what is with what was with what should be with what could be.
She ought to run for president.
If the sun were to explode, you wouldn’t even know about it for 8 minutes because thats how long it takes for light to travel to us. For eight minutes the world would still be bright and it would still feel warm.
So, for all we know, it has already exploded.
We had everything to say to each other, but no ways to say it.
Or [if you’re a Kid]: We had nothing to say to each other, but lots of ways to say it.