Forks Over Knives Quotes

“Driving a hybrid car could save about one ton of carbon-dioxide emissions per year but adopting a plant-based diet would save nearly one and a half tons over a comparable period."

"If every American reduced chicken consumption by one meal per week, the carbon-dioxide savings would be equivalent to removing 500,000 cars form the road."

In a given year, "the number of animals killed to satisfy American palates is 8.6 billion, or 29 animals per average American meat eater. The total number of animals killed on land and sea was approximately 80 billion, or 270 per American meat and fish eater - making the average number of animals consumed in one American lifetime 21,000.”
― Gene Stone, Forks Over Knives: The Plant-Based Way to Health

“Overall, between 1996 and 2005, the number of Americans of all ages who suffer from three or more chronic diseases increased by 86 percent.”
― Gene Stone, Forks Over Knives: The Plant-Based Way to Health

“One quarter of what you eat keeps you alive. The other three quarters keep your doctor alive. —EGYPTIAN PROVERB”
― Gene Stone, Forks Over Knives: The Plant-Based Way to Health

“Approximately 73 percent of the emerging human pathogens are transmitted to people from animals. The transfer of multi-drug-resistant pathogens from farms and food to humans (e.g., avian influenza H5N1 and swine flu) constitutes a serious biomedical, public health, and biodefense threat.”
― Gene Stone, Forks Over Knives: The Plant-Based Way to Health, The #1 New York Times Bestseller