“For every 16 pounds of grain and soy fed to…

“For every 16 pounds of grain and soy fed to beef cattle in the United States we only get 1 pound back in meat on our plates. The other 15 pounds are inaccessible to us, either used by the animal to produce energy or to make some part of its own body that we do not eat (like hair or bones) or excreted.” – Frances Moore Lappé, Diet for a Small Planet

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“On both sides of the road, the forest has been cleared as far as the eye can see. For the most part, it has been cleared for cattle ranching. Today, there are over 8 million cattle in Brazilian Amazonia. Meat production is extremely inefficient (50 kg/hectare/year), making ranching an activity which is so wholly uneconomic that it would probably never have been undertaken on the present scale in the Brazilian Government, with aid from the World Bank and other multilateral development banks, had not poured $2 billion into subsidizing the cattle industry in Amazonia.” - N. Hildyard, Adios Amazonia? - View Quote Details on “On both sides of the road, the forest has been…
“Veganism has given me a higher level of awareness and spirituality.” - Dexter Scott King, Vegetarian Times, 1995 - View Quote Details on “Veganism has given me a higher level of awareness and…
“I do not eat meat, I do not smoke, and I do not drink, and therefore, I do not feel the cold. ” - Percy Grainger, J. Bird, Percy Grainger, 1998, p. 253 - View Quote Details on “I do not eat meat, I do not smoke, and…
“People of the future will say, “meat-eaters!” in disgust and regard us in the same way that we regard cannibals and cannibalism.” - Dennis Weaver, quoted by Gail Davis in Vegetarian Food for Thought - View Quote Details on “People of the future will say, “meat-eaters!” in disgust and…
“This species of food [fruits and farinacea] is that which is most suited to man…” – Carl Linnaeus, Amaenitates academica, x., 8 - View Quote Details on “This species of food [fruits and farinacea] is that which…
“If you can justify killing to eat meat, you can justify the conditions of the ghetto. I cannot justify either one.” - Dick Gregory. - View Quote Details on “If you can justify killing to eat meat, you can…
“Yes, I am a vegetarian. I find the thought of stuffing fragments of corpses down my throat quite repulsive, and I am amazed that so many people do it every day. ” - J. M. Coetzee - View Quote Details on “Yes, I am a vegetarian. I find the thought of…
“Yet many Americans who have reluctantly given up their gas-guzzling cars would never think of questioning the resource costs of their grain-fed-meat diet. So let me try to give you some sense of the enormity of the resources flowing into livestock production in the United States. The consequences of a grain-fed-meat diet may be as severe as those of a nation of Cadillac drivers.” – Frances Moore Lappé, Diet for a Small Planet - View Quote Details on “Yet many Americans who have reluctantly given up their gas-guzzling…
“Meat is for beasts to feed on.” - Ovid - View Quote Details on “Meat is for beasts to feed on.” - Ovid
“Animal life, sombre mystery. All nature protests against the barbarity of man, who misapprehends, who humiliates, who tortures his inferior brethren.” - Jules Michelet - View Quote Details on “Animal life, sombre mystery. All nature protests against the barbarity…