Jonathan Safran Foer Quote

After fleeing Nazi-occupied Poland, Nobel laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer compared species bias to the most extreme racist theories. Singer argued that animal rights was the purest form of social-justice advocacy, because animals are the most vulnerable of all the downtrodden. He felt that mistreating animals was the epitome of the might-makes-right moral paradigm. We trade their most basic and important interests against fleeting human ones only because we can.

Jonathan Safran Foer

After fleeing Nazi-occupied Poland, Nobel laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer compared species bias to the most extreme racist theories. Singer argued that animal rights was the purest form of social-justice advocacy, because animals are the most vulnerable of all the downtrodden. He felt that mistreating animals was the epitome of the might-makes-right moral paradigm. We trade their most basic and important interests against fleeting human ones only because we can.

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About Jonathan Safran Foer

Jonathan Safran Foer (; born February 21, 1977) is an American novelist. He is known for his novels Everything Is Illuminated (2002), Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2005), Here I Am (2016), and for his non-fiction works Eating Animals (2009) and We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast (2019). He teaches creative writing at New York University.