Quantcast Vegetarian StarMeatless Mouthful–Newkirk Says Food Waste Reason To Go Vegan

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“Americans toss out nearly every other bite of food. We squander up to 40 percent of the nation’s food supply each year — throwing away, on average, 20 pounds per person per month — while making excuses for our wastefulness. This is shameful enough. Now consider the nightmare that billions of animals — who feel anxiety, fear and pain every bit as profoundly as we do — endure on factory farms, in transit to slaughter and at the slaughterhouse itself. Nowadays, they are confined to cages and crates, their babies are taken away from them and they are kicked and prodded and deprived of everything that makes their lives worth living just so that we can take their milk or kill them for their flesh. And then we toss half of it all into the trash. This may be one of the most compelling reasons yet to go vegan.”

Ingrid Newkirk, co-founder of  People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals on a report released by the Natural Resources Defense Council on food waste.

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