“When you look at environmental problems in the U.S., nearly all of them have their source in food production and in particular meat production. And factory farming is 'optimal' only as long as degrading waterways is free. If dumping this stuff becomes costly — even if it simply carries a non-zero price tag — the entire structure of food production will change dramatically.”

- Gidon Eshel, a former cattle rancher and current geophysicist at the Bard Center, quoted in a January New York Times article. The article, "Rethinking the Meat Guzzler," is an excellent overview of the harm to the environment done by factory farm meat production.

-Mark