Raja Selvakumar

“From 1935 to 1995, the average weight of "broilers" increased by 65%, while their time-to-market dropped 60% and their feed requirements dropped 57%. To gain a sense of the radicalness of this change, imagine human children growing to be 300 pounds in 10 years, while eating only granola bars and Flintstones vitamins.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals

“One study found that roughly 4.5 million sea animals are killed as bycatch in longline fishing every year.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals

“In America, millions of dogs and cats euthanized in animal shelters every year become the food for our food (twice as many such animals are euthanized as are adopted).”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals

“Smithfield spilled more than 20 million gallons of lagoon waste into the New River in North Carolina. The spill remains the largest environmental disaster of its kind and is twice as big as the iconic Exxon Valdez 6 years earlier... at the time of the spill, Smithfield was the 7th largest pork producer in the US; two years later it was the biggest.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals