Quote by Jonathan Safran Foer

You can't really call yourself an environmentalist if you're still consuming animals. You just can't.

— Anonymous

To consider yourself an environmentalist and still eat meat is like saying you're a philanthropist who doesn't give to charity.

— Howard Lyman

“So you’re an environmentalist; why are you supporting commodities instead of food, corporate profits over local, living economies, and power over justice?”

— Lierre Keith

An environmentalist that eats meat is like a philanthropist that won't give money to charities.

— Howard Lyman

“The recognition that human beings are specifically and deliberately responsible for whatever aberrances farm animals may embody, that their discordances reflect our, not their,…

— Karen Davis

“[The idea] of an environmental ethic runs contrary to our cultural tradition.”

— John Livingston. from "One Cosmic Moment

An environmentalist can oppose factory farming because it's reckless stewardship. A conservative can oppose factory farming because it is destructive to small farmers and…

— Matthew Scully

I am called an environmentalist a lot. But I don't necessarily identify with that word specifically, because of the compartmentalization of the so-called environmental…

— Severn Cullis-Suzuki

The word vegetarian, I think, does a disservice because there are a lot of people who care but maybe don't care, or can't care…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

It's upsetting to me that so many people think of themselves as environmentalists and still eat meat and dairy products. I think it's something…

— Emily Deschanel

A typical guy who buys organic food doesn't really buy it in order to be healthy; he buys it to regain a kind of…

— Slavoj Žižek

“Global environmentalists have said and written enough to leave no doubt that their goal is to destroy the prosperous economies of the world's richest…

— Russell Kirk