Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes

I only eat things that you don't have to kill.

I'm a vegetarian and have been since I was about four because I struggled to separate the idea of the animal from the food.

I became a vegetarian at age 13 because I was into animal issues and felt like it was kinder not to eat animals.

A vegetarian is a person who won't eat anything that can have children.

I'm not telling people to go vegan overnight.

When I was 12, I first made the decision to go vegetarian after a co-star's line 'I don't eat anything with a face' suddenly shocked me into reality.

I try to be vegan... I really, really try. I don't eat any red meat, and the whole animal thing really upsets me, so I've tried.

I'm a vegetarian, so I have a huge fear of blood.

When I was young, I would gorge on chicken. But for the last several years, I've been a pure vegetarian; I don't even take egg.

I became a vegetarian in 1995. I had some fried chicken, and my teeth hit the bone. My mind said, 'Dead bird, dead bird.' It didn't feel right, so I stopped. I kept eating fish until one day, in 1997, the chef brought my ginger-fried snapper with the head still on it.

I know that as a vegan, I'm in a minority. People love their meat. It's up there with sugar and TV and maybe even coffee on the list of inalienable American rights.

That's the nice thing about being a vegetarian. You don't have to be neurotic. Selective omnivores have to be neurotic. Personally, I don't have time for all that; I don't want to get into it.

I grew up in Texas, eating meat five times a day, and I liked meat. But I began being a vegetarian when I was 19 because I found that I felt better.

My children not only inspired me to reconsider what kind of eating animal I would be, but also shamed me into reconsideration.

Being a vegetarian really saves lives.

A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.

You can't make people change, but the organizers of WorldFest hope that people consider being vegetarian for both moral and health reasons.

I couldn't kill a chicken, I couldn't kill a cow - I was a vegetarian too at that time - so I thought, well what is there that I could kill? I couldn't kill this and I couldn't kill that.

I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.

I've been a vegetarian since I was 19.

I have always been an animal lover. I had a hard time disassociating the animals I cuddled with - dogs and cats, for example - from the animals on my plate, and I never really cared for the taste of meat. I always loved my Brussels sprouts.

I didn't grow up eating meat - I was a vegetarian until I was 18.

With my time in the limelight, I regret that I didn't use it more to push vegetarianism. I support vegetarian options in the school lunch program.

I only eat meat if I go to a nice restaurant and there is an exceptional dish, or if I'm at somebody's home for a dinner, I'll eat whatever is in front of me. Otherwise, I don't eat anything that walks around and has a face.

I was one of those kids who found it difficult to eat anything that looked like an animal.