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“Because feeding grains to farmed animals is wasteful, only 37% of current croplands are needed if we shift to a vegan diet”

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Book:Eating Earth: Environmental Ethics and Dietary Choice

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“The U.S. can retire more than 60% of cultivated lands if people choose a plant-based diet, and we would use much less water, pesticides, fossil fuels, and chemical fertilizers.”

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“Diet–a choice we make every day, several times a day-determines the size of our environmental footprint.”

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“Many humans would experiment on nonhumans in the hope of saving a loved one, and they would just as readily experiment on humans to sustain that same hope.”

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“We are morally required to stop systematically exploiting others, whether chimpanzees or pygmy lemurs, chickens or chinchillas. Nonhuman animals are also persons who fare better or worse depending on the way we treat them, we must begin to give them the respect and dignity that persons deserve”

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“Now the proper good of a creature is to surrender itself to its Creator - to enact intellectually, volitionally and emotionally, that relationship which is given in the mere fact of its being a creature when it does so, it is good and happy.”

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“Might does not make right; self-interest—even desperate self-interest—does not justify exploiting others.”

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“Humans are not the pinnacle of evolution we imagine ourselves to be.”

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“If we are going to save endangered primates, we must first recognize that they are individuals much like human beings, who prefer to be free to live their lives independent of exploitation.”

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“Nonhuman primates are many and wondrous, yet few and endangered.”

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“Our efforts to protect primates will be much more effective if we dismantle the artificial line that we have created between ourselves and other animals.”

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