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Jean Mayer
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“[The] enormous appetite for animal products has forced the conversion (at a very poor rate) of more and more grain, soybean and even fish meal into feed for cattle, hogs and poultry, thus decreasing the amounts of food directly available for direct consumption by the poor.”
Jean Mayer (1920–1993) first seen 1974 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: By Bread Alone", The New York Times Book Review (15 December 1974); quoted in The Diet Delusion by (Random House, 2008), p. 42.
“[Vegetarianism] has three things going for it all at once—economics, health and compassion.”
Jean Mayer (1920–1993) first seen 1975 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in "Vegetarianism: Growing Way of Life, Especially Among the Young" by Judy Klemesrud, The New York Times (21 March 1975).
“Quite often the young person is horrified at innocent animals being driven to the slaughterhouse to satisfy the appetites of the human species which could easily feed itself in other ways.”
Jean Mayer (1920–1993) first seen 1982 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Introductory Remarks on Vegetarianism", in Vegetarianism and the Jewish Tradition by Louis A. Berman (KTAV Publishing House, 1982), p. xx.
“In becoming a vegetarian, you will eat a greater percentage of your calories from cereal grains, dried beans and peas, potatoes and pasta—the very foods most dieters avoid with zeal. And you will lose weight.”
Jean Mayer (1920–1993) first seen 1983 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in "Why People Get Fat" by Keith Akers, (May 1983), p. 29.