How to Love Animals Quotes

“It requires 20 times more land to produce a gram of protein from cows or sheep than it does to produce it from pulses such as chickpeas or soybeans.”
― Henry Mance, How to Love Animals: In a Human-Shaped World

“Individual action is not the opposite of collective action; it is the forerunner.”
― Henry Mance, How to Love Animals: In a Human-Shaped World

“You can still be a vegan and be a foodie. Indeed, veganism is a logical extension of the idea that what is on your plate must resonate with who you are as a person.”
― Henry Mance, How to Love Animals: In a Human-Shaped World

“In 2006, a landmark UN report highlighted meat's environmental impact, concluding that it accounted for 30% of the planet's land and 18% of greenhouse emissions, more than all vehicles, ships, and planes combined.”
― Henry Mance, How to Love Animals: In a Human-Shaped World

“All animal foods are inefficient. When you consider pasture and crops grown for feed, animals currently account for 77% of all the earth's agricultural land, but provide only 18% of our calories, and only 37% of our protein.”
― Henry Mance, How to Love Animals: In a Human-Shaped World

“Screw the meat paradox. This was the vegetarian paradox- that in cutting out meat, I felt there were more things I wanted to eat, not fewer. Vegetarianism is a presence, not an absence.”
― Henry Mance, How to Love Animals: In a Human-Shaped World

“When I went vegetarian, my friends quizzed me on what I was missing. Bacon, surely, or steak?
In fact, what I noticed most of all was a sense of relief. I could take satisfaction in my food, that my hunger was not another animal's suffering.”
― Henry Mance, How to Love Animals: In a Human-Shaped World

“On impulse, I decide to put myself to the test once more. I put my vegetarianism to one side. The pork has an almost bready texture, like a firm sponge, and it releases its juice when I bite into it. 'It does taste good' I think. But the taste lasts only a few seconds, and I wonder, 'Is that it? Is that what we do all this for?'
That was the last time I ate meat, and I never regretted leaving it behind.”
― Henry Mance, How to Love Animals: In a Human-Shaped World

“Raising children can be a moment of renewal - a time to ask who we want to be on this planet. Or it can be a moment of inertia - when, even while worrying about the collapse of bee and other insect populations, we crew-cut the lawn to provide a tidy play area for our small humans.”
― Henry Mance, How to Love Animals: In a Human-Shaped World

“The fact that we can't definitely what emotions animals experience says more about the limitations of our scientific methods than it does about the limitations of their experience.”
― Henry Mance, How to Love Animals: In a Human-Shaped World