Gene Stone > Quotes

“Driving a hybrid car could save about one ton of carbon-dioxide emissions per year but adopting a plant-based diet would save nearly one and a half tons over a comparable period."

"If every American reduced chicken consumption by one meal per week, the carbon-dioxide savings would be equivalent to removing 500,000 cars form the road."

In a given year, "the number of animals killed to satisfy American palates is 8.6 billion, or 29 animals per average American meat eater. The total number of animals killed on land and sea was approximately 80 billion, or 270 per American meat and fish eater - making the average number of animals consumed in one American lifetime 21,000.”
― Gene Stone, Forks Over Knives: The Plant-Based Way to Health

“Who needs terrorists or mother nature when through our own stupidity we do things like this.”
― Michael Greger

“She stated, “A post-antibiotic era means, in effect, an end to modern medicine as we know it. Things as common as strep throat or a child’s scratched knee could once again kill.”147 We may soon be past the age of miracles. The director-general’s prescription to avoid this catastrophe included a global call to “restrict the use of antibiotics in food production to therapeutic purposes.” In other words, only use antibiotics in agriculture to treat sick animals. But that isn’t happening.”
― Michael Greger, How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease

“A post-antibiotic era means, in effect, an end to modern medicine as we know it. Things as common as strep throat or a child’s scratched knee could once again kill.” We may soon be past the age of miracles. The director-general’s prescription to avoid this catastrophe included a global call to “restrict the use of antibiotics in food production to therapeutic purposes.” In other words, only use antibiotics in agriculture to treat sick animals. But that isn’t happening.”
― Michael Greger, How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease

“Every time you put something in your mouth, it’s a lost opportunity to put something even healthier in there”
― Michael Greger

“Just because you’re born with bad genes doesn’t mean you can’t effectively turn them off.”
― Michael Greger, How not to die in a pandemic: Wie man eine Pandemie überlebt

“Sean cuales sean los genes que hemos heredado de nuestros padres, lo que comemos puede afectar al modo en que influyen sobre nuestra salud. Básicamente, tenemos el poder en nuestras manos y en nuestros platos”
― Michael Greger, Comer para no morir