Ecology Quote by Aric McBay

A species may eat a particular bacterium, phytoplankton, smaller fish, or plant in an area. Lacking a predator, these species/populations will overgrow and alter…

— Thom Hartmann

Our ingenuity in feeding ourselves is prodigious, but at various points our technologies come into conflict with nature's ways of doing things, as when…

— Michael Pollan

“We’ve discovered that any species that exempts itself from the rules of competition ends up destroying the community in order to support its own…

— Daniel Quinn

It’s not a requirement to eat animals, we just choose to do it, so it becomes a moral choice and one that is having…

— James Cameron

I stand by my assertions that although you can know what happens to any individual species that you modify, you cannot be certain what…

— Bill Nye

You could think of an ecosystem as a bunch of antagonistic arms races, almost: Everything that an animal depends upon for food is the…

— Steven Pinker

“With this increased diversity at the base of the food chain, there are increased opportunities for insects and fungi and bacteria that did not…

— Chris D. Thomas

Every time we consume meat, eggs or dairy foods, we contribute to ecological devastation and the wasteful misuse of resources on a global scale.

— Ingrid Newkirk

Throughout all of human history we have consumed the natural world. All creatures do. Birds do. Fish do. Earthworms do. We consume the natural…

— Sylvia Earle

When we kill animals to eat them they end up killing us because their flesh...was never intended for human beings, who are naturally herbivores.

— William C. Roberts

Producing food to eat is the single most destructive environmental activity humans engage in.

— Ramez Naam

The raising of animals for food and all that it entails is the single most destructive force impacting our planet's fragile ecosystems. Our planet…

— Sharon Gannon