Isaac Bashevis Singer Quotes
I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.
Singer, Isaac Bashevis. Interview with Richard Burgin. The New York Times Magazine, 26 Nov. 1978.
He was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by Martin Luther King. The link between diet and global warming lies in the fact that vegetable protein requires much less processing and materials than animal protein. Animals have to be fed to grow and produce meat protein, The feed and the care for the animals requires much more energy per unite of protein than soy beans and other high protein plants. With less energy to grow food, there will be less global warming. In addition, animals—especially cattle—expel large amounts of methane which adds to the global warming problem. Most meat eaters would prefer to use less inconvenient means to reduce greenhouse gasses.
Isaac Bashevis Singer was a Polish-born Jewish-American writer in Yiddish, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978. The Polish form of his birth name was Icek Hersz Zynger. He used his mother's first name in an initial literary pseudonym, Izaak Baszewis, which he later expanded. He was a leading figure in the Yiddish literary movement, writing and publishing only in Yiddish. He was also awarded two U.S. National Book Awards, one in Children's Literature for his memoir A Day Of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing Up in Warsaw (1970) and one in Fiction for his collection A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories (1974).
