Kathy Freston Quotes

I am an eco-friendly person and a vegetarian.

If anyone wants to save the planet, all they have to do is just stop eating meat.

Veganism is an answer for almost every problem facing the world in terms of hunger and climate change.

The United Nations did a study just over two years ago, and that blew my mind. I started thinking that if people are vegetarian for one day a week, that makes a huge difference!

If anyone wants to save the planet, all they have to do is just stop eating meat. That's the single most important thing you could do. It's staggering when you think about it. Vegetarianism takes care of so many things in one shot: ecology, famine, cruelty.

Becoming vegan is the most important and direct change we can immediately make to save the planet and its species.

You can't really call yourself an environmentalist if you're still consuming animals. You just can't.

My own view is that being a vegetarian or vegan is not an end in itself, but a means towards reducing both human and animal suffering and leaving a habitable planet to future generations.

It's time to face facts: Most people stop being environmentalists when they sit down to eat.

I am involved in Greenpeace. And I just recently completely switched my diet over to near-veganism. So you try to do little things that you can. I recycle every single day. Every single thing in my house that can be recycled is.

Everything I do is the environment.

And check this out: If every American had one meat-free day per week, it would be the same as taking eight million cars off American roads in a year.

I want to show people that environmentalism can be fun!

There's so many issues tied to the meat industry. I mean, social, environmental, humanitarian - all of them. I know that when I'm eating that I'm not hurting the planet, I'm not hurting other people on this planet, I'm not hurting animals... and I'm not hurting nature.

I make a fair amount of my food choices for environmental-type reasons than nutrition or taste. I'm trying to minimize impact, which is something most people don't necessarily think about when they're shopping.

It is all very well for 2% of the population to live in a monastic state of meatlessness while everyone else gorges their way towards environmental meltdown or the nearest heart clinic. Vegetarianism is good for the willing minority, but not much use as a campaign tool.

Going vegetarian may be the most effective way to fight global warming. Buddhist practitioners have practiced vegetarianism over the last 2000 years. We are vegetarian with the intention to nourish our compassion towards the animals. Now we also know that we eat vegetarian in order to protect the earth...

I've learned so much about what you can do to help animals, the environmental issues around meat production.

I had just gotten to the point when I could have bought any car I wanted to in America. I even looked at a Hummer. But one day I woke up and realized, how can I talk the talk without walking the walk? If you can feel good about not contributing to global change, then all the power to you, but I couldn't.

The best thing you can do for the planet is be vegan or vegetarian.

I love eating meat, but I love our planet even more. So I will join this campaign and stop eating meat at least one day a week.

By eating meat we share responsibility for causing climate change, the destruction of our forests, and the poisoning of our air and water. The simple act of becoming a vegetarian can make a difference in the health of our planet.

If we gave up eating beef we would have roughly 20 to 30 times more land for food than we have now.

I think vegetarianism is a crucial ethical choice for an individual and a society.

I'm an environmentalist; I recycle.