“Factory farming is terrible for the environment—not to mention that it's gross. The best thing you can do, if you think about it, is to become a vegetarian and just spread the word. The world would change for the better for animals, humans, and the planet if everyone took that step.” IfsThinkingWorldHumansCan DoAnimalStepsEnvironmentPlanetsTerribleSpreadBest ThingsVegetarianFactoriesGrossFarmingChange For The BetterFactory Farming Author:Christofer Drew
“Animals die even if you eat vegetables. That is the nature of farming. There is a certain sacrifice involved.” IfsCertainDiesAnimalSacrificeInvolvedVegetablesFarming Author:Michael Pollan
“The best farming systems are ones where animals and plants are put into a synergistic relationship.” AnimalPlantFarming Author:Michael Pollan
“I stopped eating beef in high school, and in college I stopped eating poultry. I am not a huge fan of factory farming and what we're doing to animals. I try to eat as clean as possible because I want to know what I'm putting into my body.” KnowsWantTryingBodySchoolAnimalFansCollegeHugeEatingHigh SchoolCleanFactoriesFarmingBeefFactory FarmingPoultry Author:Susanna Thompson
“Women have an important role in agriculture. We need to introduce technology, which will help us harness the potential of women in agriculture. We need to divide the agriculture sector into three parts- regular farming, farming of trees and animal husbandry. If we are able to do this, the contribution of our women will increase even more.” IfsNeedsImportantHelpingAbleThreeAnimalRolesTechnologyTreeEmpowermentIndiaIncreaseContributionDividesIntroducingAgricultureFarmingHarness Author:Narendra Modi
“Once women invented farming, and began to keep and breed animals, they discovered the crucial function of the rooster and the henhouse. Fathers suddenly gained a function, and could do what only women had been able to do for all those millions of years--point at a child and say, "That is my son," "That is my daughter." Patriarchy quickly followed, beginning about five thousand years ago; a very short time in the development of our species, but covering all of recorded history.” YearsChildrenAbleFatherAnimalMillionsFiveSonDevelopmentThousandDaughterYears AgoFunctionSpeciesMy DaughterMy SonCrucialThousand YearsPatriarchyFarmingCoveringShort TimeRoosters Author:Frank Pittman
“I don't understand the notion that modern farming is anything do to with nature. It's a pretty gross interference with nature. I think it ought to be governed by the standards of how it affects the individual animals, just as we'd want to deal with institutions that deal with humans by how they affect individual humans.” ThinkingWantHumansIndividualAnimalDealsModernOughtStandardsInstitutionsNotionGrossFarmingInterference Author:Peter Singer
“Fish farming, even with conventional techniques, changes fish within a few generations from an animal like a wild buffalo or a wildebeest to the equivalent of a domestic cow.” ChangeAnimalGenerationsFishesTechniqueCowsConventionalFarmingSalmonBuffaloOverfishing Book:The End of the Line: How Overfishing is Changing the World and what We Eat Source: The End of the Line: How Overfishing is Changing the World and what We Eat