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 RobbinsOur food chain is in crisis. Big agribusiness has made profits more important than your healthโmore important than the environmentโmore important than your right to know how your food is produced. But beneath the surface, a revolution is growing.
John RobbinsThe level of consumption that we identify with success is utterly unsustainable. We're gobbling up the world.
John RobbinsOne day people will look back with amazement that we ever sought to grow our food with poisons.
John RobbinsThe joy is that we can take back our bodies, reclaim our health, and restore ourselves to balance. We can take power over what and how we eat. We can rejuvenate and recharge ourselves, bringing healing to the wounds we carry inside us, and bringing to fuller life the wonderful person that each of us can be.
John RobbinsDream of a society at peace with its conscience because it respects and lives in harmony with all life forms.
John RobbinsIt 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