Animal Quote by Matthew Scully

“Most simply put, someone who regularly eats factory-farmed animal products cannot call himself an environmentalist without divorcing that word from its meaning.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Benign environmentalists are opposed to pollution, as all sensible people are; malign environmentalists are opposed to energy and most of what it enables.

— Kevin D. Williamson

“The first is that the conservative cause has been polluted by the ideology of big business, by the global ambitions of the multinational companies,…

— Roger Scruton

...whatever the self-righteous excesses of the environmentalist left, it is impossible to be true to traditional conservative values (to say nothing of the Christian…

— Rod Dreher

Factory farming came about from a moral race to the bottom, with corporations vying against each other to produce more and bigger animals with…

— Matthew Scully

Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off so easily,…

— Wendell Berry

I truly don't judge other people's actions. But I think that factory farming is an abomination.

— Moby

“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

However, I think the major opposition to ecology has deeper roots than mere economics; ecology threatens widely held values so fundamental that they must…

— Garrett Hardin

If as an environmentalist we are against anything... it is against the arrogance of power and the most obcene ways it shows up, which…

— John Denver

Ideology trumps rationality. Most conservatives cannot abide the solution to global warming - strong government regulations and a government-led effort to accelerate clean-energy technologies…

— Joseph J. Romm

“Rationally, factory farming is so obviously wrong, in so many ways. In all of my reading and conversations, I’ve yet to find a credible…

— Jonathan Safran Foer