Raja Selvakumar

“The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) calculated 24.6 million pounds of antibiotics were fed to chickens, pigs, and other farmed animals, only counting nontherapeutic uses.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals

“Americans today spend less on food, as a percentage of disposable income (10%), than any other industrialized nation... meaning that we could afford to spend more on food if we chose to.”
― Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

“For meat, milk, and eggs labelled organic, animals must:

1) be raised on organic feed (without most synthetic pesticides/fertilizers)
2) be traced
3) not be fed antibiotics or growth hormones
4) have "access to the outdoors”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals

“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