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Jonathan Safran Foer

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American novelist (born 1977)

United StatesWritersBorn 1977 · age 49
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Jonathan Safran Foer 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).

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Jonathan Safran Foer
said · 2009
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By the standards of the international human rights community, the typical working conditions in America's slaughterhouses constitute human rights violations.

Eating Animals (2009)

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Jonathan Safran Foer
said · 2009
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People care about animals. I believe that. They just don't want to know or to pay. A fourth of all chickens have stress fractures. It's wrong.

Eating Animals (2009)

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Jonathan Safran Foer
said · 2009
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Just how destructive does a culinary preference have to be before we decide to eat something else?

Eating Animals (2009)

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Awards 3

2007Berlin Prize
2003William Saroyan International Prize for Writing
2002Guardian First Book Award

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Jonathan Safran Foer 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.

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United States
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Born 1977 · age 49
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