Quotes
“With a full third of the annual global harvest of grains being fed to livestock, the scale of lost edible nutrition is as staggering as it is morally unacceptable. […] the grain fed to the US livestock alone could feed all of the world’s 800 million malnourished individuals.” (Henning, 69)
“[...] it takes 21 kg of edible grain to yield 1 edible kg of lamb and 13 kg of edible grain for one kg of beef.” (Henning, 68)
“Indeed, half of all antibiotics produced worldwide are now administered to livestock.” (Henning, 66)
“A diet high in animal-sourced foods contributes significantly to, among other things, hypertension, heart disease, certain types of cancer, diabetes, gallstones, obesity, stroke, and food-borne illness.” (Henning, 68)
“In the United States, livestock produce ten times more waste than the human population but, unlike human waste, which must be cleaned in waste treatment facilities, livestock effluent is collected in vast lagoons that often leak into aquifers and waterways.” (70)
“[...] the food we eat contributes more to global climate change than what we drive or the energy we use.” (73)
-Henning, Brian. “Standing in Livestock's ‘Long Shadow’: The Ethics of Eating Meat on a Small Planet.” Environment, vol. 16, no. 2, 2011, pp. 63-86.