Land Quote by Sylvia Earle

It takes 16 lbs of grain to make 1 lb of beef. It takes 1 lb of grain to make 1 lb of bread.…

— John Robbins

It takes less land to grow a pound of broccoli than it does a pound of beef. Less land to grow a pound of…

— Ed Begley, Jr

It takes the farmer 10 kgs of vegetation to feed the animal in order to produce 1 kg of meat. In other words a…

— Amala Akkineni

Meat is an inefficient way to eat. An acre of land can yield 20,000 pounds of potatoes, but that same acre would only graze…

— Alexandra Paul

Raising crops to feed animals for human consumption requires a lot of land. It takes eight or nine cows a year to feed one…

— Sharon Gannon

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

“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

“Meat yields higher energy per gram eaten than does vegetation.”

— Edward O. Wilson

Meat is undoubtedly an environmentally expensive food. Large animals have inherently low efficiency of converting feed to muscle, and only modern broilers can be…

— Vaclav Smil

It may take sixteen pounds of grain to make one pound of beef, but it also takes one hundred pounds of fish to make…

— Sharon Gannon

Meat supplies a variety of nutrients - among them iron, zinc, and Vitamin B12 - that are not readily found in plants. We can…

— Michael Specter

The case for meat-eaters - if eating meat is a sin, then why are some plants carnivorous?

— Siddharth Katragadda