Beyond this literal forgetting of animals by eating them, animal bodies were, for [Franz] Kafka, burdened with the forgetting of all those parts of ourselves we want to forget. If we wish to disavow a part of our nature, we call it our ‘animal nature.’ We then repress or conceal that nature, and yet, as Kafka knew better than most, we sometimes wake up and find ourselves, still, only animals.
— Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals
