Expensive Quote by Vaclav Smil Download Open image “Meat is undoubtedly an environmentally expensive food.” — Vaclav Smil ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Expensive Food Meat Undoubtedly
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Meat is a tremendous environmental challenge. It contributes enormous amounts of greenhouse gas, especially beef eating. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Please eat less meat - meat is a very carbon-intensive commodity. — Rajendra K. Pachauri Copy Share Image
So much of today's food is based on the exploitation of animals and the environment. Yes, it's cheap, but at what cost? — Steve Ells Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Viewed from a holistic ecological perspective, some meat - such as conscientiously hunted animals - involves less suffering and environmental damage than arable agriculture,… — Tristram Stuart Copy Share Image
Whether you eat meat of not, you can be part of this decision to limit the meat industry destroying our planet's resources. — Stella McCartney Copy Share Image
Meat is a wasteful use of water and creates a lot of greenhouse gases. It puts enormous pressure on the world's resources. A vegetarian… — Nicholas Stern Copy Share Image
“It magnifies your carbon footprint. If you cut back your animal food intake, you can make a big impact on planet Earth. Each year… — Sharon Palmer Copy Share Image
Meat eaters don't like me because I call for moderation, and vegetarians don't like me because I say there's nothing wrong with eating meat.… — Vaclav Smil Copy Share Image
America tends to assume Silicon Valley-style innovators can drive quick and transformative changes, but even Silicon Valley's would-be masters of the universe have discovered… — Vaclav Smil Copy Share Image
When you talk in terms of electricity, renewable is very important. Hydro in Manitoba. Hydro in Sweden. Wind in Denmark. Of course, those are… — Vaclav Smil Copy Share Image
...no matter how complex or affluent, human societies are nothing but subsystems of the biosphere, the Earth's thin veneer of life, which is ultimately… — Vaclav Smil Copy Share Image
Energy use is merely a means to many rewarding ends: economic security, education, health. — Vaclav Smil Copy Share Image
In every society, manufacturing builds the lower middle class. If you give up manufacturing, you end up with haves and have-nots, and you get… — Vaclav Smil Copy Share Image
Everyone [in higher education] was what I call drillers of deeper wells. These academics sit at the bottom of a deep well and they… — Vaclav Smil Copy Share Image
There is no reason we can't design a car to last for 35 years instead of six or seven. — Vaclav Smil Copy Share Image
I've read about 80 books a year for the past 50 years. I come from cultural breeding. I don't have a cellphone. When you… — Vaclav Smil Copy Share Image
“I wrote this book because I wanted to narrate the great, and a truly nation-building, story of US manufacturing—and because I believe that without… — Vaclav Smil Copy Share Image
Apple! Boy, what a story. No taxes paid, everything made abroad—yet everyone worships them. This new iPhone, there’s nothing new in it. Just a… — Vaclav Smil Copy Share Image
A useful analogy is to see traditional societies as relying on instantaneous (or minimally delayed) and constantly replenished solar income, while modern civilization is… — Vaclav Smil Copy Share Image
Consumers can choose organic cotton grown without pesticides, but it uses more water and requires more land than conventional crops. Organic cotton can also… — Tatiana Schlossberg Copy Share Image
The liveness of theater, and the excitement of experiencing it alongside an audience, is something you can't get at home. That makes the theater… — Nick Blaemire Copy Share Image
This is not really currency that circulates. It's like the old joke about expensive vintage wine. Wine prices will go up and once in… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
I watched a film called 'Elephant' recently. Its not stylish in the sense of expensive suits and Italian cars, but the styling on every… — Tinie Tempah Copy Share Image
The creatives, they want to connect with people. These artists, the clothing designers, they want to connect with people the same way that music… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
We blacks were the first people embracing Obama, long before the people at expensive fundraisers were supporting him. We gave him his first love,… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
There are a number of much less expensive alternatives to detaining immigrants than locking them up somewhere. — Bill Foster Copy Share Image
It was doing very well; it was doing particularly well outside of England. It was a very big seller for Carlton Television. But it… — Derek Jacobi Copy Share Image
Once I got a guitar that was relatively user-friendly, but not super-duper easy, I really came on as a guitarist, at that point. It… — Jimmy Page Copy Share Image
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