Quotes About Agriculture

Anyone who suggests that there is a perfect symbiosis between the farmers' interest and the animals' is probably trying to sell you something (and it's not made of tofu)

These factory farmers calculate how close to death they can keep the animals without killing them. That's the business model. How quickly can they be made to grow, how tightly can they be packed, how much or how little can they eat, how sick can they get without dying.

Every time you make a decision about food, Paul pleaded, quoting Berry, "you are farming by proxy.

We hebben oorlog gevoerd, of eigenlijk hebben we een oorlog laten voeren, tegen alle dieren die we eten. Deze oorlog is nieuw en heeft een naam: bio-industrie. De bio-industrie beschouwt de natuur als een obstakel dat overwonnen moet worden.

Wat gebeurt er met alle mannelijke kuikens van legkippen? Als de mens ze niet heeft aangepast voor de vleesproductie en de natuur ze overduidelijk niet heeft gemaakt om eieren te leggen, welke functie hebben ze dan? Ze hebben geen functie. Daarom worden alle haantjes - de helft van alle legkippen die ter wereld komen; meer dan 250 miljoen kuikens per jaar - vernietigd. De meeste haantjes worden vernietigd door ze via een buizenstelsel naar een elektrocuteerplaat te zuigen.

From 1935 to 1995, the average weight of broilers increased by 65%, while their time-to-market dropped 60% and their feed requirements dropped 57%. To gain a sense of the radicalness of this change, imagine human children growing to be 300 pounds in 10 years, while eating only granola bars and Flintstones vitamins.

The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) calculated 24.6 million pounds of antibiotics were fed to chickens, pigs, and other farmed animals, only counting nontherapeutic uses.

In 1930, more than 20% of the American population was employed in agriculture. Today it's less than 2%.

carbon absorption associated with the livestock industry's deforestation should be accounted for:

All told, farmed animals in the United States produce 130 times as much waste as the human population —

When we lift our forks, we hang our hats somewhere. We set ourselves in one relationship or another to farmed animals, farmworkers, national economies, and global markets. Not making a decision - eating like everyone else - is to make the easiest decision, a decision that is increasingly problematic.

Between 1950 and 1970, the number of American farms declined by half, the number of people employed in farming declined by half, and the size of the average farm doubled. During that time, the size of the average chicken has doubled.

La gabbia standard per ovaiole concede a ogni gallina una superficie di 4,32 decimetri quadrati, grande come questo rettangolo. Quasi tutte quelle non allevate in gabbia hanno a disposizione all'incirca la stessa superficie

La biodiversità era stata rimpiazziata dall'uniformità genetica, nelle università i dipartimenti di scienze animali erano diventati dipartimenti di scienze zootecniche, un'attività economica un tempo dominata dalle donne era ormai passata in mano ai maschi, e pollicoltori esperti erano stati rimpiazzati da dipendenti stipendiati. Non ci fu un colpo di pistola a segnare l'inizio della corsa verso il basso. Il terreno si inclinò e tutti scivolarono giù.

Americans eat 150 times as many chickens as we did only eighty years ago.

Chickens once had a life expectancy of fifteen to twenty years, but the modern broiler is typically killed at around six weeks. Their daily growth rate has increased roughly 400 percent.)

Ninety-nine percent of all land animals eaten or used to produce milk and eggs in the United States are factory farmed. So although there are important exceptions, to speak about eating animals today is to speak about factory farming.

Rationally, factory farming is so obviously wrong, in so many ways. In all of my reading and conversations, I've yet to find a credible defense of it.

And I'll tell you another thing: if consumers don't want to pay the farmer to do it right, they shouldn't eat meat.

The average distance our meat travels hovers around fifteen hundred miles. That's like me driving from Brooklyn to the Texas Panhandle for lunch.

We have waged war, or rather let a war be waged, against all of the animals we eat. This war is new and has a name: factory farming.

Those who defend pig factory farms argue that the farrowing crate is necessary because sows can sometimes accidentally crush their piglets. In the same way that the risk of a forest fire can be reduced by preemptively clearing the forest of all its trees, there is a cockeyed logic to this claim. The farrowing crate, like the gestation crate, confines the mother in a space so small she cannot turn around. Sometimes she will also be strapped to the floor.

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it strange how upset people get about a few dozen baseball players taking growth hormones, when we're doing what we're doing to our food animals and feeding them to our children?