“One of the most disturbing ways that climate change is already playing out is through what ecologists call "mismatch" or "mistiming." This is the process whereby warming causes animals to fall out of step with a critical food source, particularly at breeding times, when a failure to find enough food can lead to rapid population losses.” WayEnoughScienceFallCausesProcessLossAnimalStepsFoodSourceClimateClimate ChangePopulationCriticalRapidsDisturbingBreedingMismatch Author:Naomi Klein
“Of what use is it to please the herd? They are simply coarse animals - for all that is admirable in man is the artificial product of special breeding.” MenUseAnimalSpecialProductsPleaseArtificialHerdsAdmirableBreedingCoarse Author:H. P. Lovecraft
“Farmers since the beginning of time have been feeding the world very successfully without systematically abusing animals or destroying the environment. But we're breeding food that is less safe for us, it tastes much worse than it ever has in history, and it's wreaking havoc on the environment in a way that it never did in history before. All in the interest of it being cheap.” WorldWayHas BeensInterestAnimalEnvironmentTasteSafeFarmersDestroyingFeedingBreedingHavocDestroying The EnvironmentFeeding The World Author:Jonathan Safran Foer
“In a way, human beings have never been part of the natural order; we're not biological in the normal sense. Normal biological animals stop eating when they're not hungry and stop breeding when there is no sense in breeding. By contrast, human beings are what I think of as "biomythic" animals: we're controlled largely by the stories we tell. When we get the story wrong, we get out of harmony with the rest of the natural order. For a long time, our unnatural beahvior didn't threaten the natural world, but now it does.” ThinkingWorldWayHumansLongDoeStoriesOrderNaturalHuman BeingsAnimalNormalEatingLong TimeHarmonyHungryControlledContrastNatural WorldUnnaturalBreedingNatural Order Author:Sam Keen