Automobile Quote by Frances Moore Lappé

Grain that is used to feed animals that end up on our tables as turkeys and hams could have gone to feed starving people.

— Peter Singer

Our food system takes abundant grain,which people can't afford,and shrinks it into meat,which better-off people will pay for.

— Frances Moore Lappé

Given that it takes up to 16 pounds of grain to produce one pound of meat, I think we can also go a long…

— Bryant Terry

“We can eat meat, it tastes good, but it’s very costly considering the land we have to use to produce the plants needed to…

— Sven-Erik Jacobsen

The United Nations four or five years ago put out a study that said the meat industry, meat-eating, growing meat for food is the…

— Maggie Q

Meat is complicated. We have to be thoughtful about the ecosystem that we're living in and not to destroy it because of the instant…

— Dominique Crenn

I eat meat, but no meat that isn't pastured is acceptable, and we probably need to eat a whole lot less.

— Alice Waters

Meat consumption is a part of our evolutionary heritage; meat production has been a major component of modern food systems. Carnivory should remain, within…

— Vaclav Smil

Evolution has made us omnivores, and substantial quantities of meat can be produced by feeding plant matter whose production does not directly compete with…

— Vaclav Smil

Animals that we eat are raised for food in the most economical way possible, and the serious food producers do it in the most…

— Julia Child

I'm very picky about the meat I eat. I eat grass-fed beef, which is now becoming more common. Yes, it's still more expensive, but…

— Michael Pollan

“And just as agriculture has displaced species-dense communities with its monocrops, its diet has displaced the nutrient-dense foods that humans need, replacing them with…

— Lierre Keith