John Robbins Quotes About Eating

Quotes about: Eating

• In California today, you may save more water by not eating a pound of beef than you would by not showering for six entire months.

  John Robbins

  California, Water, Beef

  John Robbins (2010). “The Food Revolution: How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and Our World”, p.237, Conari Press

• It takes 16 lbs of grain to make 1 lb of beef. It takes 1 lb of grain to make 1 lb of bread. So, how many more plants are you eating if you eat a pound of beef? Secondly, I've harvested cabbages and pulled up carrots out of the ground and I've been in slaughter-houses and seen the animals have their brains bashed out with sledgehammers and their throats cut - the experiences are not comparable.

  John Robbins

  Cutting, Animal, House

• I believe that eating simple food in a healthy body with a clean conscience is more pleasurable, and infinitely more satisfying, then eating decadent food that makes you and your world ill.

  John Robbins

  Believe, Simple, Healthy

  Robbins, John, Robbins, Ocean (2013). “Voices of the Food Revolution: You Can Heal Your Body and Your World with Food!”, p.251, Conari Press

• Few of us are aware that the act of eating can be a powerful statement of commitment to our own well-being, and at the same time the creation of a healthier habitat. Your health, happiness, and the future of life on earth are rarely so much in your own hands as when you sit down to eat.

  John Robbins

  Powerful, Commitment, Hands

• Eating in a hurried or unconscious way, as so many of us have learned to do, is like receiving a love letter from the earth, but never taking the time to carefully read it.

  John Robbins

  Receiving, Earth, Letters

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