Eating Earth Quotes

“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

“Cheap meat, dairy, and eggs are an illusion–we pay for each with depleted forests, polluted freshwater, soil degradation, and climate change.”
― Lisa Kemmerer, Eating Earth: Environmental Ethics and Dietary Choice

“Grass fed meat is an environmental nightmare perpetuated by elitists who refuse to change their eating habits.”
― Lisa Kemmerer, Eating Earth: Environmental Ethics and Dietary Choice

“Animal agriculture causes more environmental damage than any other industry, but it makes no sense to hate bovines with hamburger in hand.”
― Lisa Kemmerer, Eating Earth: Environmental Ethics and Dietary Choice

“On what reasonable grounds would sincere, informed environmentalists refuse to join animal advocates in a campaign to protect increasingly threatened fish populations from the snapping teeth of humanity?”
― Lisa Kemmerer, Eating Earth: Environmental Ethics and Dietary Choice

“Earth and animal activists need to join forces against powerful corporations that are destroying both the earth and anymals.”
― 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

“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

“Because feeding grains to farmed animals is wasteful, only 37% of current croplands are needed if we shift to a vegan diet”
― Lisa Kemmerer, Eating Earth: Environmental Ethics and Dietary Choice

“To feed a vegan nation, less land is required. More than 60% of lands now in production can be returned to wilderness (or used for other needs) if we go vegan.”
― Lisa Kemmerer, Eating Earth: Environmental Ethics and Dietary Choice

“The U.S. can retire more than 60% of cultivated lands if people choose a plant-based diet, and we would use much less water, pesticides, fossil fuels, and chemical fertilizers.”
― Lisa Kemmerer, Eating Earth: Environmental Ethics and Dietary Choice

“Grass-fed cattle create more greenhouse gases (50–60% more methane) than grain-fed cattle.”
― Lisa Kemmerer, Eating Earth: Environmental Ethics and Dietary Choice

“Diet–a choice we make every day, several times a day-determines the size of our environmental footprint.”
― Lisa Kemmerer, Eating Earth: Environmental Ethics and Dietary Choice