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“Thanks to government sub­sidies, a diet rich in animal products is affordable even though it destroys the earth”
― Lisa Kemmerer, Eating Earth: Environmental Ethics and Dietary Choice

“Worldwide, animal agriculture emits more carbon dioxide than any other single source.”
― Lisa Kemmerer, Eating Earth: Environmental Ethics and Dietary Choice

“The largest sources of CO2 from animal agriculture come not from the animals themselves (through respiration and waste), but from the inputs and land-use changes necessary to maintain and feed them, including: burning fossil fuels to produce fertilisers used in feed production; maintaining intensive animal production facilities; growing the associated animal feed; transporting the animal feed; and processing and transporting the animal products. Furthermore, clearing land to graze livestock and grow feed is the largest single cause of deforestation and among the major causes of land degradation and desertification.”
― Jason Hannan, Meatsplaining: The Animal Agriculture Industry and the Rhetoric of Denial

“Thanks to animal agriculture, our water contains an abundance of manure, pesticides, antibiotics, nitrates, and arsenic.”
― Lisa Kemmerer, Eating Earth: Environmental Ethics and Dietary Choice