Chickens can do many things, but they cannot make

Chickens can do many things, but they cannot make sophisticated deals with humans.

(0 Reviews)

Favorites

In Jonathan Safran Foer's book "Eating Animals," he reflects on the capabilities of chickens, illustrating that while they possess various natural abilities, engaging in complex negotiations with humans is beyond their skills. This statement emphasizes the inherent limitations of animals when it comes to understanding human social constructs and transactions.

The quote highlights a fundamental truth about the animal-human relationship, suggesting that animals exist within a realm of instinct and survival,...

Page views
2

Update
February 21, 2025

Report
Report a Problem

Rate the Quote

Add Comment & Review

User Reviews

Based on 0 reviews

5 Star

4 Star

3 Star

2 Star

1 Star

No reviews added yet.

Add Comment & Review

Your Name: *

Comment Title: *

Your E-mail: * We'll never share your email with anyone else.

Your Comment: *

Your Rating: *

Comments will not be approved to be posted if they are SPAM, abusive, off-topic, use profanity, contain a personal attack, or promote hate of any kind.

Shame is the work of memory against forgetting. Shame is what we feel when we almost entirely - yet not entirely - forget social expectations and our obligations to others in favor of our immediate...

We cannot defend indifference and ignorance. The next generations know more and more about this industry. We live in a time when a critical approach to industrial farming has become part of collective...

We all feel the danger. Our food arises at the expense of huge suffering. When someone suggests watching a movie about meat production, we expect horror. It is possible that we know more than we...

Chickens once had a life expectancy of fifteen to twenty years, but the modern broiler is typically killed at around six weeks. Their daily growth rate has increased roughly 400 percent.}

Vegetarians are at best kindly but unrealistic. At worst they are delusional sentimentalists.

Our methodologies . . . have come more and more to resemble the methodology of mining. . . . This is sufficiently clear to many of us. What is not sufficiently clear, perhaps to any of us, is the...

She thought about how in that moment life was perfect because it was simple. One truck, a world asleep, and a million stars. It didn't matter where they were going. She was just existing. — Tessa Shaffer Heaven Has No...

All the things you can talk about in anyone's work are the things that are least important. — Edward Gorey Ascending...

The hero surviving his own murder, his own suicide, his own addiction, surviving his own disappearance from the scene — Allen Ginsberg The Fall of...

There was a star danced, and under that was I born. — William Shakespeare Much Ado About...

Race of Cain, ascend to heaven, And cast God down upon the earth! — Charles Baudelaire The Flowers of...

... it occurred to me that perhaps in this city the crowd was essential to the individual; without it, he had nothing against which to scrape his anger, no echo for grief, and not the slightest proof that there were others more lonely than he. it was just a passing thought. — Don DeLillo Americana

Today Birthdays

1947 - Salman Rushdie 1623 - Blaise Pascal 1856 - Elbert Hubbard 1608 - Thomas Fuller 1954 - Kathleen Turner 1964 - Boris Johnson 1983 - Macklemore 1834 - Charles Spurgeon 1954 - Jim Cooper 1985 - Kajal Aggarwal 1984 - Paul Dano 1978 - Zoe Saldana 1998 - Atticus Shaffer 1966 - Samuel West 1971 - Michael Burry 1988 - Jacob deGrom 1970 - Rahul Gandhi 1980 - Lauren Lee Smith

The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...

What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...

If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...

We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.

Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...

Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...

Havermeyer was a lead bombardier who never missed. Yossarian was a lead bombardier who had been...

fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all...

the full fury of his storming countenance with its rugged overhang of gullied forehead and huge crag...

Categories »

Rate the Quote

User Reviews

Other quotes in Eating Animals

Other quotes in book quote

Today Birthdays

Popular quotes

Categories