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Eating Earth: Environmental Ethics and Dietary Choice QUOTES

Eating Earth: Environmental Ethics and Dietary Choice QUOTES

1 " Animal agriculture causes more environmental damage than any other industry, but it makes no sense to hate bovines with hamburger in hand. "

― Lisa Kemmerer , Eating Earth: Environmental Ethics and Dietary Choice

2 " Worldwide, animal agriculture emits more carbon dioxide than any other single source. "

― Lisa Kemmerer , Eating Earth: Environmental Ethics and Dietary Choice

3 " Thanks to animal agriculture, our water contains an abundance of manure, pesticides, antibiotics, nitrates, and arsenic. "

― Lisa Kemmerer , Eating Earth: Environmental Ethics and Dietary Choice

4 " Diet–a choice we make every day, several times a day-determines the size of our environmental footprint. "

― Lisa Kemmerer , Eating Earth: Environmental Ethics and Dietary Choice

5 " Grass fed meat is an environmental nightmare perpetuated by elitists who refuse to change their eating habits. "

― Lisa Kemmerer , Eating Earth: Environmental Ethics and Dietary Choice

6 " Grass-fed cattle create more greenhouse gases (50–60% more methane) than grain-fed cattle. "

― Lisa Kemmerer , Eating Earth: Environmental Ethics and Dietary Choice

7 " On what reasonable grounds would sincere, informed environmentalists refuse to join animal advocates in a campaign to protect increasingly threatened fish populations from the snapping teeth of humanity? "

― Lisa Kemmerer , Eating Earth: Environmental Ethics and Dietary Choice

8 " Because feeding grains to farmed animals is wasteful, only 37% of current croplands are needed if we shift to a vegan diet "

― Lisa Kemmerer , Eating Earth: Environmental Ethics and Dietary Choice

9 " The U.S. can retire more than 60% of cultivated lands if people choose a plant-based diet, and we would use much less water, pesticides, fossil fuels, and chemical fertilizers. "

― Lisa Kemmerer , Eating Earth: Environmental Ethics and Dietary Choice

10 " Earth and animal activists need to join forces against powerful corporations that are destroying both the earth and anymals. "

― Lisa Kemmerer , Eating Earth: Environmental Ethics and Dietary Choice

11 " Cheap meat, dairy, and eggs are an illusion–we pay for each with depleted forests, polluted freshwater, soil degradation, and climate change. "

― Lisa Kemmerer , Eating Earth: Environmental Ethics and Dietary Choice

12 " To feed a vegan nation, less land is required. More than 60% of lands now in production can be returned to wilderness (or used for other needs) if we go vegan. "

― Lisa Kemmerer , Eating Earth: Environmental Ethics and Dietary Choice

13 " Thanks to government sub­sidies, a diet rich in animal products is affordable even though it destroys the earth "

― Lisa Kemmerer , Eating Earth: Environmental Ethics and Dietary Choice