Cows and other livestock account for roughly one-sixth of all greenhouse-gas emissions, and as a general point, eating meat means taxing the… — Annie Lowrey Copy Share Image
In the ancient world, taxes were paid in kind: landowners paid in crops or livestock; the landless paid with their labor. Taxing… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
Predators make it much more difficult to find consensus. It's a lot easier to agree about birds and plants than about animals… — Gale Norton Copy Share Image
Farmers in Missouri and across the country must comply with a variety of federal, state, and local regulations as they grow the… — Ike Skelton Copy Share Image
There's no question that the number one contributor to climate change is livestock production. The quickest way to make an effect is… — Lisa Bloom Copy Share Image
If everyone agreed to become vegetarian, leaving little or nothing for livestock, the present 1.4 billion hectares of arable land (3.5 billion… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
I shot my first lion at the age of 14 when a pride threatened my father's livestock while he was away on holiday. — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
One of the things I say is from an evolutionary point of view: probably the ideal rich environment for a baby includes… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
The car provided Americans with an enviable standard of living. You could not get a steady job with high wages and health… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Speaking of food, English cuisine has received a lot of unfair criticism over the years, but the truth is that it can… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Indeed, a report from the United Nations has revealed that the livestock industry is the number-one contributor to global warming gasses -… — Karen Dawn Copy Share Image
I am in favor of deliberately spreading methodically prepared bacteria among people and animals -- mildew ... to destroy the harvests, anthrax… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
In Japan, Taiwan and South Korea, the government in a matter of years has put a lot of energy behind recycling food… — Tristram Stuart Copy Share Image
We as children went up the mountain to find feed for livestock, like goats, cows and horses, and because in the winter… — Tamae Watanabe Copy Share Image
The vision of an ag park set forth in the BioCrossroads report includes livestock, ... In addition, the vision of an ag… — Thurman Munson Copy Share Image
I see little hope for a nation that values the health of its livestock more than that of its people…Farmers are not… — Adelle Davis Copy Share Image
When the EPA says that property owners, farmers, and livestock producers must stomach higher costs, longer delays, and bigger headaches, it's up… — Sam Graves Copy Share Image
Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
[Me book is] called Stock Photographs. It was done at the Fort Worth livestock show and rodeo. I was commissioned to shoot… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
Railroad carriages are pulled at the enormous speed of fifteen miles per hour by engines which, in addition to endangering life and… — Martin Van Buren Copy Share Image
As a population, if a large number of people make even small moves to eat less meat and more plant-based foods, the… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Whether we fail or not, we shall not be kept from continuing our mission by those who claim it can't be done.… — Louis Bromfield Copy Share Image
Go into the largest livestock operation, search out the darkest and tiniest stall or pen, single out the filthiest, most forlorn little… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
Language for me narrates the pictures in my mind. When I work on designing livestock equipment I can test run that equipment… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
I always had a separate life than just my work. I built my own family. I have my own hobbies and interests.… — Ricky Schroder Copy Share Image
We're going to move from a commodity economy where you basically grow the same kind of crops - where a kernel of… — Tom Vilsack Copy Share Image
We have no ethical obligation to preserve the different breeds of livestock produced through selective breeding One generation and out. We have… — Wayne Pacelle Copy Share Image
Today's fishing industry supplies land farms with fish as well. Over fifty percent of the fish caught is fed to livestock on… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
I'm a huge supporter of animal rights - and I've been an outspoken critic of the cruelties routinely inflicted on livestock at… — Eric Schlosser Copy Share Image
Popular culture bombards us with examples of animals being humanized for all sorts of purposes, ranging from education to entertainment to satire… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
We simulated the predator with livestock and the perennial grassland returned. Just put the whole back, and there it was. You'll find… — Allan Savory Copy Share Image
Usually, the first thing a country does in the course of economic development is to introduce a lot of livestock. Our data… — T. Colin Campbell Copy Share Image
In my opinion, one of the greatest animal-welfare problems is the physical abuse of livestock during transportation… Typical abuses I have witnessed… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
Being vegan or vegetarian isn't just about compassion for animals. Most of the destruction of the planet is the result of all… — William McNamara Copy Share Image
Ninety-eight percent of all the soy that's raised goes to livestock. So people make fun of vegetarians for being tofu eaters, but… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
The current treatment of animals in the livestock trade definitely renders the consumption of meat as halachically unacceptable as the product of… — David Rosen Copy Share Image