265 According to Benjamin Franklin . . . Benjamin Franklin, The Compleated Autobiography, edited by Mark Skousen (Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, 2006), 332.
thanks to help from Native Americans . . . James E. McWilliams, A Revolution in Eating: How the Quest for Food Shaped America (New York: Columbia University Press, 2005), 7, 8. “For all the challenges that the colonists faced, they rarely starved. English visitors were astonished at the region’s material abundance.”
266 “meat, sawdust, leather . . .” “A COK Report: Animal Suffering in the Turkey Industry,” Compassion over Killing, http://www.cok.net/lit/ turkey/disease.php (accessed July 28, 2009). This article cites A. R. Y. El Boushy and A. F. B. van der Poel, Poultry Feed from Waste — Processing and Use (New York: Chapman and Hall, 1994).
267 “I could not have slept . . .” James Baldwin, Abraham Lincoln: A True Life (New York: American Book Company, 1904), 130–131.
About the Author
Jonathan Safran Foer is the author of the novels Everything Is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. His work has received numerous awards and has been translated into thirty-six languages. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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