"There is, however, a moral basis for the vegetarian diet for which the indeterminate value of an animal's life takes on irrelevance. And that moral basis is a concern for the environment, a value as absolute as the value we all place on human life, since humanity will not survive for long on a poisoned planet. To be an environmentalist who happens to eat meat is like being a philanthropist who doesn't happen to give to charity."

-- Howard Lyman

#Animal Quotes #Irrelevance Quotes #Long Quotes

“If anyone wants to save the planet, all they have to do is just stop eating meat.”
“I will be going to Belgium to win -- and we will see how the weekend develops from there.”
“The only thing that is different from one time to another is what is seen and what is seen depends upon how everybody is doing everything.”
“The game shouldn't be called baseball. It should be called adjustments.”
“Nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century exponents of prefabrication were certain it would supplant age-old traditions of individualized design and handcrafted construction. The building art would be revolutionized by freeing designers and construction workers from repetitive tasks, and democratized by making high-style architecture more affordable.”
“The problem is that during the 1980s, a decade of heavy poaching, the elephants retreated to safer areas. And now people have moved into the corridors once used by the elephants.”
“In vertebrate paleontology, increasing knowledge leads to triumphant loss of clarity.”
“As an actor, when you encounter a psychopathic personality, you naturally want to make him 'bigger than life,' as the Americans say.”

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