#species

A reduction of meat consumption by only 10% would result in about 12 million more tons of grain for human consumption. This additional grain could feed all of the humans across the world who starve to death each year- about 60 million people! ↗

— Marc Bekoff

#food #humans #life #speciesism #starving

We proclaim human intelligence to be morally valuable per se because we are human. If we were birds, we would proclaim the ability to fly as morally valuable per se. If we were fish, we would proclaim the ability to live underwater as morally valuable per se. But apart from our obviously self-interested proclamations, there is nothing morally valuable per se about human intelligence. ↗

— Gary L. Francione

#birds #fish #humans #intelligence #morally-valuable

Only after you've done the exorcism, then you'll understand that ghost's also a species. ↗

— Toba Beta

#ghost #life #secret #species #truth

We all know interspecies romance is weird. ↗

— Tim Burton

#animals #biology #genetics #interspecies #love

It is the great sadness of our species that we have not found a way to eliminate the conflict and to eliminate violence as a device to resolve our conflicts throughout the entire history of the human race. ↗

— Neale Donald Walsch

#conflicts #device #eliminate #entire #found

I believe in reincarnation. In my last life I was a peasant. Next time around, I'd like to be an eagle. Who hasn't dreamed they could fly? They're a protected species, too. ↗

— Lee Trevino

#believe #could #dreamed #eagle #fly

Eurasia ended up with the most domesticated animal species in part because it's the world's largest land mass and offered the most wild species to begin with. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#because #begin #domesticated #ended #eurasia

Measles and TB evolved from diseases of our cattle, influenza from a disease of pigs, and smallpox possibly from a disease of camels. The Americas had very few native domesticated animal species from which humans could acquire such diseases. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#americas #animal #camels #cattle #could

Living wild species are like a library of books still unread. Our heedless destruction of them is akin to burning the library without ever having read its books. ↗

— John Dingell

#books #burning #destruction #ever #having

The question that will decide our destiny is not whether we shall expand into space. It is: shall we be one species or a million? A million species will not exhaust the ecological niches that are awaiting the arrival of intelligence. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#awaiting #decide #destiny #ecological #exhaust