“Because most of us are shielded (or shield ourselves) from the unpleasant realities associated with the routine use of animals, we can maintain a view of ourselves as animal lovers by being kind to the few living animals we personally encounter.”
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“Earth and animal activists need to join forces against powerful corporations that are destroying both the earth and anymals.”
― Eating Earth: Environmental Ethics and Dietary Choice
― Eating Earth: Environmental Ethics and Dietary Choice
“The number of individuals enslaved and slaughtered on factory farms every year exponentially surpasses—by trillions—any form of exploitation of human beings anywhere, at any time.”
― Animals and World Religions
― Animals and World Religions
“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.”
― Meatsplaining: The Animal Agriculture Industry and the Rhetoric of Denial
― Meatsplaining: The Animal Agriculture Industry and the Rhetoric of Denial
“Grass fed meat is an environmental nightmare perpetuated by elitists who refuse to change their eating habits.”
― Eating Earth: Environmental Ethics and Dietary Choice
― Eating Earth: Environmental Ethics and Dietary Choice
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