Richard Oppenlander > Quotes

“While 45 percent of the land on earth is used to raise animals and food to feed them, it is estimated that only 5 percent is used to grow plant-based foods consumed directly by humans. This 5 percent, though, supplies 80 percent of the calories consumed by humans.15”
― Richard Oppenlander, Food Choice and Sustainability: Why Buying Local, Eating Less Meat, and Taking Baby Steps Won't Work

“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.”
—John Muir”
― Richard Oppenlander, Comfortably Unaware: What We Choose to Eat Is Killing Us and Our Planet

“Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.”
—Confucius”
― Richard Oppenlander, Comfortably Unaware: What We Choose to Eat Is Killing Us and Our Planet

“our current food choices detrimentally affect climate change and global warming more so than do all the cars, planes, trucks, buses, and trains used worldwide.1”
― Richard Oppenlander, Comfortably Unaware: What We Choose to Eat Is Killing Us and Our Planet