Animal Agriculture Quotes:

Animal agriculture takes up an incredible 70% of all agricultural land, and a whopping 30% of the land surface of the planet. As a result, farmed animals are probably the biggest cause of slashing and burning the world's forests.

- Kathy Freston

topic: Animal, Land, Agriculture, Animal Agriculture

Animal agriculture makes a 40% greater contribution to global warming than all transportation in the world combined; it is the number one cause of climate change.

- Jonathan Safran Foer

topic: Animal, Numbers, Agriculture, Eating Animals, Animal Agriculture

There is no 'need' for us to eat meat, dairy or eggs. Indeed, these foods are increasingly linked to various human diseases and animal agriculture is an environmental disaster for the planet.

- Gary L. Francione

topic: Animal, Eggs, Agriculture, Linked, Animal Agriculture

For me the two biggest issues are climate change and animal welfare/animal agriculture. And oddly enough animal agriculture is such a contributor to climate change. According to the United Nations, 25% of climate change comes from animal agriculture, so every car, bus, boat, truck, airplane combined has less CO2 and methane emissions than animal agriculture.

- Moby

source: "Climate Champions speak out: Moby on Climate Change". www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

topic: Airplane, Animal, Two, Contributors, Methane

The UN special envoy on food called it a 'crime against humanity' to funnel 100 million tons of grain and corn to ethanol when almost a billion people are starving. So what kind of crime is animal agriculture, which uses 756 million tons of grain and corn per year, much more than enough to adequately feed the 1.4 billion human who are living in dire poverty?

- Jonathan Safran Foer

topic: Animal, Years, Agriculture, Ethanol, Animal Agriculture

We would be foolish and silly not to unite with people in the public health sector, the environmental community, [and] unions, to try to challenge corporate agriculture.

- Wayne Pacelle

topic: Silly, Animal, Agriculture, Animal Agriculture, Animal Rights Activists

It is not larger, cleaner cages that justice demands...but empty cages; not traditional animal agriculture but a complete end to all commerce in the flesh of dead animals; not more humane hunting and trapping, but the total eradication of these barbarous practices.

- Tom Regan

topic: Hunting, Animal, Practice, Animal Agriculture

To me, one of the easiest ways of addressing climate change and potentially remedying climate change is to stop subsidizing animal agriculture.

- Moby

topic: Animal, Agriculture, Climate, Animal Agriculture

When it comes to animal agriculture, there is conventional, which is rally hideous, and 'compassionate' and 'certified humane' or whatever, which 'may' be 'slightly' less hideous. But it is all torture. It's all wrong. These 'happy' gimmicks are just designed to make the public feel better about exploiting animals. Don't buy the propaganda of 'happy' exploitation. Go vegan and promote veganism.

- Gary L. Francione

topic: Feel Better, Animal, Agriculture, Animal Agriculture

We need to use economic instruments such as carbon taxes, cap and trade, tax and dividend and whatever else to help incentivize behavior that will move us to a post-carbon, post-animal agriculture world, and make our societies more resilient to the shocks that are already baked into the system. But that doesn't make climate change an "economic issue."

- Dale Jamieson

topic: Moving, Animal, Agriculture, Carbon Tax, Economic Issues

Increasingly both environmentalists and animal ethicists recognize the enormous destruction caused by animal agriculture.

- Dale Jamieson

topic: Animal, Agriculture, Destruction, Animal Agriculture

The lifeblood of Mercy For Animals is our undercover investigations of animal agriculture.

- Nathan Runkle

topic: Animal, Agriculture, Mercy, Undercover, Animal Agriculture

Almost always when I told someone I was writing a book about "eating animals", they assumed, even without knowing anything about my views, that it was a case for vegetarianism. It's a telling assumption, one that implies not only that a thorough inquiry into animal agriculture would lead one away from eating meat, but that most people already know that to be the case.

- Jonathan Safran Foer

topic: Book, Writing, Animal, Eating Meat, Eating Animals