The Ultimate Betrayal Quotes

“In fact, fishing is one of the world’s most wasteful and destructive industries. Every year, more than seven million tons of so-called by-catch (perhaps more accurately described as by-kill) is inadvertently caught and wantonly destroyed, including over three hundred thousand sea animals such as non-target fish species, sea turtles, dolphins, whales, sharks, albatrosses, and other sea birds.”
― Hope Bohanec, The Ultimate Betrayal: Is There Happy Meat?

“The planet may never recover from the environmental devastation wrought by commercial fishing. It seems that our oceans, once thought to hold an endless bounty, are no match for insatiable human greed.”
― Hope Bohanec, The Ultimate Betrayal: Is There Happy Meat?

“Reducing or eliminating the consumption of animal products is one of the most powerful ways we can reduce our impact on the environment.”
― Hope Bohanec, The Ultimate Betrayal: Is There Happy Meat?

“If you think of our planet as a living, breathing organism, the forests are the lungs. They create a perfect balance to our own respiratory process by absorbing millions of tons of CO2 into the soil and exhaling oxygen into the air, exactly what is needed to maintain equilibrium of animal life with plant life and create the livable atmosphere we all enjoy. However, we are losing this integral part of our ecosystem on a massive scale, and it is largely due to the persistence of meat centered diets.”
― Hope Bohanec, The Ultimate Betrayal: Is There Happy Meat?

“Given the state of disaster we humans have wrought upon the planet, it seems an argument can be made for the inferiority of the human intellectual capacity of reason.”
― Hope Bohanec, The Ultimate Betrayal: Is There Happy Meat?

“People will separate the meat on the plate from a living animal. Perhaps these mental acrobatics are a protection mechanism disconnecting them from the fact that they actually are concerned for the animal they eat; they choose to block it out, blindly eating meat and not an animal.”
― Hope Bohanec, The Ultimate Betrayal: Is There Happy Meat?

“It is impossible to reconcile the principles of humane treatment with the inherently inhumane act of sending animals to slaughter, irrespective of how “good” a life they may have had.”
― Hope Bohanec, The Ultimate Betrayal: Is There Happy Meat?