Quotes About Consumption

la consommation quotidienne de viande est associée à un risque accru de 18 % chez les hommes et de 21 % chez les femmes pour la mortalité cardio-vasculaire, et de respectivement 10 % et 16 % pour la mortalité par cancer

le monde pourrait nourrir 1,5 milliard de pauvres en leur consacrant le milliard de tonnes de céréales qui nourrit le bétail destiné à l'abattage.

A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmental damaging consumption patterns.

The middle class tend to be interested in spending money on leisure and entertainment. They leave behind much bigger carbon and digital footprints

Material goods have gained an increasing and finally inexorable power over the lives of men as at no previous period in history.

How we are using up our home, how we are living and polluting the planet is frightening. It was evident when I was a child. It's more evident now.

Thus, increases in interest rates matter greatly for the economy as a whole. They not only cause direct reductions in investment spending and interest-sensitive consumption spending (the main intent of restrictive monetary policy), but they also may reduce aggregate demand indirectly through their impact on asset prices.

I was starting to think that except for the deli counters and five or ten thousand other total essentials, supermarkets were pretty much a waste of time.

Something was consuming the girl. I need help. She thought of her in that interview room, slightly breathless and entrancing. Wanting desperately to be told that nothing was her fault, that her body and brain had conspired against her. The feeling she must have, always, of being in between worlds, the worlds separated only by an impenetrable pane of glass.

Man is a thief, an impudent thief! He steals honey from bees, eggs from chickens, milk from cows and life from the God!

Most food you drop is still perfectly edible. If it was in your eyesight the whole time, you can pick it up and eat it.

We don't need sugar to live, and we don't need it as a society.

Food is no longer sacred to us: in becoming too efficient we've changed its nature.

What is it doing to me? Will the darkness consume me?

If he thought using napkins to clean your hands and face was wasteful, she couldn't help but wonder what he would think of toilet paper.

It is not likely that the insects were attracted by any beer in the bottle because, as the authors remind us, no Australian would ever throw away a bottle that still has beer in it.

A cinza resta, inteira, no extremo do cigarro aceso. É como se Bartolomeu Sozinho quisesse recolher, intacto, o tempo já consumido.

And I think the more money you put in people's hands, the more they will spend. And if they don't spend it, they invest it. And investing it is another way of creating jobs. It puts money into mutual funds or other kinds of banks that can go out and make loans, and we need to do that.

Everything else is designed for you to throw away when you are finished with it. But where is "away"? Of course, "away" does not really exist. "Away" has gone away.

The best way to reduce any environmental impact is not to recycle more, but to produce and dispose of less" The

what most people see in their garbage cans is just the tip of the material iceberg; the product itself contains on average only 5% of the raw materials involved in the process of making and delivering it.

as a buyer you got the item or service you wanted, plus additives that you didn't ask for and that may be harmful to you and your loved ones.

Animals shouldn't eat gumdrops! They shouldn't drink tea or chocolate milk, either.

That is, after I've eaten all the juicy parts.