"A reduction in beef and other meat consumption is the most potent
single act you can take to halt the destruction of our environment and
preserve our natural resources. Our choices do matter. What's healthiest
for each of us personally is also healthiest for the life support system
of our precious, but wounded planet."
"On September 11th, 35,000 children worldwide died of hunger. A
similar number of children died on September 12th, and again on the
13th, and on every single day since then. Meanwhile, we in the U.S. feed
80% of our grain harvest to livestock so that a people whose cholesterol
levels are too high can have cheap meat."
From "Terror, Love and
the State of the World"
Earthsave Magazine, Fall/Winter 2001
"There is still strong in our society the belief that animals and the
natural world have value only insofar as they can be converted into
revenue. That nature is a commodity. And that the American dream is one
of unlimited consumption. There are many of us, on the other hand, who
believe that animals and the natural world have value by virtue of being
alive. That Nature is a community to which we belong and to which we owe
our lives. And that the deeper American dream is one of unlimited
compassion."
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