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Marc Bekoff
"A reduction of meat consumption by only 10% would result in about 12 million more tons of grain for human consumption. This additional grain could feed all of the humans across the world who starve to death each year- about 60 million people!" --
Source : Marc Bekoff (2007). “Animals Matter: A Biologist Explains Why We Should Treat Animals with Compassion and Respect”, p.119, Shambhala Publications
Marc Bekoff
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“If I wanted death, Edward would give it to me. Because we both understand that it isn't death that we fear. It's living.”
“In the later nineteenth century, the tops of skyscrapers often took the shape of domes, surmounted by jaunty gilded lanterns; later came ziggurats, mausoleums, Alexandrian lighthouses, miniature Parthenons. These charming follies contained neither royal corpses nor effigies of gods and goddesses; rather they contained large wooden tanks filled with water.”
Source : 1982 Quoted in Laura Rosen Top of the City: NewYork's hidden rooftop world (1990), foreword.
“The human animal only sees what it wants to see.”
Source : Marcia Muller (2011). “Beyond the Grave”, p.216, Speaking Volumes
“You have to have courage to love somebody. Because you risk everything. Everything.”
“Bikes are clearly a superior form of transportation when it comes to just simple getting around. A car makes sense if you need to carry a bunch of stuff.”
“a good part of the trick to being a first-rate scientist is in asking the right questions or asking them in ways that make it possible to find answers.”
“Hell is the place where one has ceased to hope.”
“Usually when I start to work and to prepare the movie, some inspirations, different kind of human beings, it can be someone I know, someone I don't, a girl, a boy. So usually when I start, quite right away, some inspirations come.”