Quotes About Sustainability

I live out of cans a lot. But I try to indulge only in healthy canned food.

Even if you don't eat at a fast food restaurant, you're now eating food that's produced by this system.

Becoming a vegan is a sure way of completely avoiding participation in the abuse of farmed animals. Vegans are a living demonstration of the fact that we do not need to exploit animals for food.

I think animals should be free. There's so much other food out there that doesn't have to involve you in that cycle of pain and death.

If we can have a fast food restaurant on almost every corner, then we can certainly have a garden.

Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable.

Our [generation] people have the worst diet of anybody. I'm ready to put a farmer on my payroll. We've got to get back to growing our own food. You are what you eat!

A human can be healthy without killing animals for food.

Meat isn't murder, it's delicious.

If every American for one week refused to eat at a fast-food joint, it would bring concentrated animal feeding operations to their knees.

When we eat vegetarian foods, we needn't worry about what kind of disease our food died from; this makes a joyful meal!

One of the major problems is what we do to the soil, the air, the water and everything, we take in our food.

When a human being kills an animal for food, he is neglecting his own hunger for justice.

Algae is the perfect food plant. It doubles cell mass every twelve hours, depending on the strain.

We manage to swallow flesh, only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing we do.

Learning about issues such as sustainability and locavorism are things that you need to have as part of you as a chef because it will make you cook more delicious food.

Increasing food production to feed an increased population results in yet another increase in population.

I have always eaten animal flesh with a somewhat guilty conscience.

We need real farmers who grow real food, and the will to reform a broken food system. And for that, we need not only to celebrate farmers, but also to advocate for them.

One day people will look back with amazement that we ever sought to grow our food with poisons.

We must occupy the food system to create food democracy.

All I'm saying is that there is a price to be paid at the sharp end.. environmentally and everywhere else.. for the food that is produced in a particular way.

The world is hung up on food-based biofuels. Not only are they the wrong thing, they're the uneconomic thing.

Certain food-based biofuels like biodiesel have always been a bad idea. Others like corn ethanol have served a useful purpose and essentially are obsoleting themselves.