Animals Quote by Vaclav Smil

Meat is undoubtedly an environmentally expensive food.

— 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

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

Please eat less meat - meat is a very carbon-intensive commodity.

— Rajendra K. Pachauri

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

I don't want to hear what the price of meat is.

— Tom Sharpe

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

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

Viewed from a holistic ecological perspective, some meat - such as conscientiously hunted animals - involves less suffering and environmental damage than arable agriculture,…

— Tristram Stuart

“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

Meat is a tremendous environmental challenge. It contributes enormous amounts of greenhouse gas, especially beef eating.

— Michael Pollan

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