14 Quotes by Gene Baur

We pack on the pounds in affluent cultures in a manner that rather perversely parallels the animals we eat, who have been bred to grow big, fast - until both eater and eaten can no longer function normally and begin to suffer health problems.

If we can live well without causing unnecessary harm, why wouldn’t we?

Our food is among the most intimate connections we make with the earth.

If you can live well and be happy without causing unnecessary harm, why wouldn't you?

The sixteen hundred dairies in California’s Central Valley alone produce more waste than a city of twenty-one million people-that’s more than the populations of London, New York, and Chicago combined.

No one really knowswhy, but antibiotics make farmed animals grow faster. This has resulted in agribusiness using a phenomenal 25,000,000 pounds here - that's eight times the amount used to treat human illnesses. We are increasingly making ourselves vulnerable to bacterial infections and are developing immunity to normal lines of antibiotic treatment.

I dream of a vegan world – that’s where I want everything to go.

Meat consumption shouldn’t be normal.

It’s a small thing to help one animal, but to that one animal it’s a big thing.