Food supply Quote by Daniel Quinn

“It has happened that a species has tried to live in violation of the Law of Limited Competition. Or rather it has happened one…

— Daniel Quinn

[A]ny species that exempts itself from the rules of competition ends up destroying the community in order to support its own expansion.

— Daniel Quinn

The most irrevocable of [natures] laws says that a species cannot occupy a niche that appropriates all resources--there has to be some sharing. Any…

— Janine Benyus

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

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

Sometimes I think that the only effective and productive method of destroying speciesism would be for each uncaring human to be forced to live…

— Gary Yourofsky

In the late 1960s, there were alarming predictions that worldwide famine was around the corner. I wondered if humans had already lost the race,…

— Frances Moore Lappé

On an overcrowded planet where more species slip toward extinction every day, should one species have the right to multiply and consume at will,…

— Thomas French

“The dominant culture eats entire biomes. No, that is too generous, because eating implies a natural biological relationship. This culture doesn't just consume ecosystems,…

— Aric McBay

“Every species of animals naturally multiplies in proportion to the means of their subsistence, and no species can ever multiply be yond it. But…

— Adam Smith

“Protect the environment? Prevent animals from extinction? Bullshit! Why don't you just admit it! Humans shouldn't always be exploiting other creatures and thinking only…

— Hitoshi Iwaaki

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