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“Dr. S. Dillon Ripley, secretary of the Smithsonian Institute, believes that in 25 years, somewhere between 75 and 80 percent of all the species of living animals will be extinct.”

Years Believe Earth Animal Percent Species Secretary Drs Institute Earth Day Smithsonian

Author:Gaylord Nelson

“There are millions of different species of animals and plants on earth--possibly as many as forty million. But somewhere between five and fifty BILLION species have existed at one time or another. Thus, only about one in a thousand species is still alive--a truly lousy survival record: 99.9 percent failure!”

Stills Different Earth Animal Millions Records Five Alive Thousand Survival Percent Plant Species Billions Fifty Forty One Time

Author:David M. Raup

“Mom & pop stores are not about something small; they are about something big. Ninety percent of all U.S. businesses are family owned or controlled. They are important not only for the food, drink, clothing, and tools they sell us, but also for providing us with intellectual stimulation, social interaction, and connection to our communities. We must have mom & pop stores because we are social animals. We crave to be part of the marketplace.”

Source: The Mom & Pop Store: True Stories from the Heart of America

“The ideal human diet looks like this: Consume plant-based foods in forms as close to their natural state as possible (“whole” foods). Eat a variety of vegetables, fruits, raw nuts and seeds, beans and legumes, and whole grains. Avoid heavily processed foods and animal products. Stay away from added salt, oil, and sugar. Aim to get 80 percent of your calories from carbohydrates, 10 percent from fat, and 10 percent from protein.”

Source: Whole: Rethinking the Science of Nutrition

“Most of the food crops raised in the world today are fed to livestock destined for slaughter for us to eat, and most of the water used is used to raise the food crops that are fed to those animals. It has been estimated that, because of the extraordinary amount of grain it takes to raise food animals, if we reduced the amount of meat we eat by only ten percent, that would free up enough grain to feed all the starving humans in the world. So when we choose to eat meat instead of vegetables, we are choosing to take food away from others who are hungry.”

“Today's fishing industry supplies land farms with fish as well. Over fifty percent of the fish caught is fed to livestock on factory farms and "regular" farms. It is an ingredient in the enriched "feed meal" fed to livestock. Farm animals, like cows, who by nature are vegans, are routinely force-fed fish as well as the flesh, blood, and manure of other animals. It may take sixteen pounds of grain to make one pound of beef, but it also takes one hundred pounds of fish to make that one pound of beef.”

“Ninety-five percent of the eggs produced in America come from factory-farmed birds. Even if free-range farms were hugely more humane, the sheer number of animals raised to satisfy people's desire for eggs, meat, and milk makes it impossible for us to raise them all on small, free-range farms.”

People Ifs America Desire Animal Numbers Five Impossible Bird Percent Raises Raised Range Meat Eggs Farms Milk Factories Sheer Ninety Humane

Author:Ingrid Newkirk

“We created a line of pet food called Nutrish that's made to human standards, and 100 percent of the proceeds go to animal rescue. One of our top-tier donors is the ASPCA, and they help us challenge animal shelters all across the country to get more animals placed in homes.”

Humans Made Country Helping Home Challenges Lines Animal Standards Percent Pet Rescue Shelter Donors Animal Rescue Animal Shelter Pet Food Aspca

Author:Rachael Ray

“When you get into the whole field of exploring, probably 90 percent of the kinds of organisms, plants, animals and especially microorganisms and tiny invertebrate animals are unknown. Then you realize that we live on a relatively unexplored plan.”

Kind Whole Realizing Animal Plans Fields Percent Plant Tiny Organisms Exploring Unexplored Microorganisms Invertebrates

Author:E. O. Wilson

“We don't need to clear the 4 to 6 percent of the Earth's surface remaining in tropical rain forests, with most of the animal and plant species living there.”

Needs Earth Animal Clear Tree Percent Rain Plant Species Surface Forests Tropical

Author:E. O. Wilson

“Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice.”

Animal Skills Percent Miracle Cooking Starting Strings Vegetables Wraps Aprons

Book:Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating

Source: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating

“I wanted to kick Bruce in the taint. No one is just one thing. Many things contribute to the whole of a person, and just because vodka accounts for 50 percent of my body weight, that doesn't mean I walk around with a vodka drip, forcing every plant, person, or animal to imbibe. I've always had a disliking for animal trainers, and this guy cemented my theory that people who chaperone animals for a living have never had a girl sit on their face.”

People Mean Persons Whole Body Wanted Faces Guy Girl Walks Animal One Thing Theory Percent Weight Accounts Plant Kicks Just One This Guy Trainers Vodka Body Weight Chaperones

Author:Chelsea Handler