“Even if you could use all the organic material that you have--the animal manures, the human waste, the plant residues--and get them back on the soil, you couldn't feed more than 4 billion people. In addition, if all agriculture were organic, you would have to increase cropland area dramatically, spreading out into marginal areas and cutting down millions of acres of forests.” PeopleIfsHumansUseAnimalMillionsCuttingMaterialsWasteAreasIncreasePlantBillionsForestsSoilAgricultureAcresManureCutting Down Author:Norman Borlaug
“Russian forests crash down under the axe, billions of trees are dying, the habitations of animals and birds are laid waste, rivers grow shallow and dry up, marvelous landscapes are disappearing forever.... Man is endowed with creativity in order to multiply that which has been given him; he has not created, but destroyed. There are fewer and fewer forests, rivers are drying up, wildlife has become extinct, the climate is ruined, and the earth is becoming ever poorer and uglier.” MenHas BeensEarthOrderGivenGrowsAnimalCreativityForeverTreeDyingBecomingWasteBirdRiversClimateDisappearBillionsForestsDestroyedLandscapeDryFewerCrashMarvelousShallowRuinedWildlifeDry Up Author:Anton Chekhov
“Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America's water pollution. Two years ago, Pfiesteria outbreaks connected with wastes from industrial chicken factories forced the closure of two major tributaries of the Chesapeake and threatened Maryland's vital shellfish industry. Tyson Foods has polluted half of all streams in northwestern Arkansas with so much fecal bacteria that swimming is prohibited. Drugs and hormones needed to keep confined animals alive and growing are mainly excreted with the wastes and saturate local waterways.” YearsTwoAmericaWaterAnimalHalfAliveGrowingIndustryNeededDrugWasteMajorsYears AgoAccountsEnvironmentalConnectedLocalsStreamsTwo YearsChickensSwimmingFactoriesPollutionAgricultureThreatenedConfinedHormonesClosureTysonBacteriaArkansasTwo Years AgoOutbreaksMarylandShellfishWater PollutionNorthwestern Author:Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
“A food waste reduction hierarchy-feeding people first, then animals, then recycling, then composting-serves to show how productive use can be made of much of the excess food that is currently contributing to leachate and methane formation in landfills.” PeopleFirstsMadeUseShowsAnimalWasteEnvironmentalProductiveExcessFeedingHierarchyStewardshipFormationReductionContributingRecyclingLandfillsMethaneFood Waste Author:Carol Browner
“According to the 'food waste pyramid', ensuring that food is eaten by people is the top priority. Failing that, the next best thing is to feed it to farm animals.” PeopleNextAnimalFailingWastePrioritiesBest ThingsFarmsPyramidsTop PrioritiesFood Waste Author:Tristram Stuart
“We try not to waste food in general. Because as a meat eater it's just responsible to eat as much of the animal as you can. It's also instilled in my family culture, where it's not even an ethical thing, it's just that all those parts are delicious, too. You eat the ears, you eat the intestines, you eat the livers, the hearts.” TryingHeartCultureAnimalWasteMy FamilyEarsResponsibleMeatEthicalDeliciousLiverIntestines Author:Thu Tran
“The business of raising animals for food (with its continuous heavy waste stream of methane and nitrous oxide - leading global warming gases) is responsible for about 18% of global warming. Some scientists actually say the number is closer to 50%.” AnimalNumbersWasteScientistResponsibleHeavyStreamsGlobal WarmingMethane Author:Kathy Freston
“If it feels right to recycle our waste or purchase solar panels for our house or rescue an animal or adopt a child or stop someone from hurting another or donate our time, money, or goods to charity, then do it.” IfsFeelsChildrenHouseHurtAnimalWasteCharityOur TimeGoodsRescueFeels RightDonateSolar Panels Author:Bryan Kest
“There is a world of created beings - living things, animals, entelechies, and souls - in the least part of matter.... Thus there is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.” WorldSoulMatterUniverseAnimalWasteChaosAppearanceConfusionLiving Things Author:Gottfried Leibniz
“The idea that we would raise billions of sentient animals, treat them horribly, pollute our waterways with their waste, compromise the effectiveness of our antibiotics so that they grow faster, and then slaughter them with little regard to their suffering so that we can feed off their corpses, will seem to most people unthinkably cruel and barbarous - sort of in the way that we think of medieval punishments, or Europeans today think of the death penalty.” PeopleThinkingWayLittlesIdeasSeemsTodaySufferingGrowsAnimalWasteTreatsRegardRaisesBillionsPunishmentCompromiseFasterPenaltiesDeath PenaltyCorpsesEffectivenessMedievalSlaughterThink Of MeAntibiotics Author:Dale Jamieson
“Congress must make it clear that common animal waste will not expose farmers to liability under Superfund, while ensuring continued action to clean up legitimate hazardous waste sites around the nation.” ActionNationsAnimalCommonClearWasteCleanCongressFarmersSiteLiabilityHazardous Waste Author:Ike Skelton
“...If there's a noise in the woods, and there's nobody around to hear it, is it really a noise?" "Of course it is," she replied calmly. "How did you reach that conclusion?" Beldin demanded. "Because there's no such thing as an empty place, uncle. There are always creatures around --wild animals, mice, insects, birds --and they can all hear." "But what if there weren't? What if the woods are truly empty?" "Why waste your time talking about an impossibility?” IfsCoursesAnimalTalkingCreaturesWasteBirdEmptyWoodsNoiseConclusionWhat IfMiceUnclesInsectsImpossibilityWild AnimalEmpty Places Author:David Eddings
“All the human and animal manure which the world wastes, if returned to the land, instead of being thrown into the sea, would suffice to nourish the world.” IfsWorldHumansAnimalSeaLandWasteThrownManureHumans And Animals Book:Hugo's Works Source: Hugo's Works
“Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose, keep in touch (or don't), care about birthdays, waste and lose time, brush their teeth, feel nostalgia, scrub stains, have religions and political parties and laws, wear keepsakes, apologize years after an offense, whisper, fear themselves, interpret dreams, hide their genitalia, shave, bury time capsules, and can choose not to eat something for reasons of conscience. The justifications for eating animals and for not eating them are often identical: we are not them.” FeelsYearsHumansChildrenReasonDreamCareLawPoliticalPurposeLosesAnimalPartyWasteEatingConscienceDon't CareNostalgiaTeethJustificationApologizingOffenseBrushesPolitical PartiesIdenticalStainsEating AnimalsTime CapsulesKeepsakes Author:Jonathan Safran Foer