Tyler Cowen Quotes
The way to make the world a better place, through your eating, is simply to eat a bit less meat. Local is sometimes good, sometimes bad. But even when it's good, its environmental impact is relatively small compared to other possible improvements.
Cowen, Tyler. An Economist Gets Lunch: New Rules for Everyday Foodies. Dutton, 2012, p. 210.
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.
Tyler Cowen is an American economist. He is a professor at George Mason University, where he holds the Holbert L. Harris chair in the economics department. He hosts the economics blog Marginal Revolution, together with co-author Alex Tabarrok. Cowen and Tabarrok also maintain the website Marginal Revolution University, a venture in online education.
