Austin Aries Quotes

We now eat at the end of a very long and opaque food chain. Food comes to us ready-made in packages that obscure as much information as they reveal.

Supermarkets don't really sustain a community, and they completely remove people from the food chain.

Right now my favorite book is 'Omnivores Dilemma.'

The time has come to recognize that food, how we produce it, process it, package it, sell it, cook it and eat it, is as important as any other issue.

It's easy for Americans to forget that the food they eat doesn't magically appear on a supermarket shelf.

I never cooked before I became vegan. Preparing a meal as opposed to ordering in all the time, you start thinking about where your food comes from and how it gets to your table. You notice that chain.

To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.

I'm perfectly happy to eat organic food, but if I choose to pay more for it, I don't pat myself on the back ethically. Quite the reverse. I think I'm actually being quite greedy, because what I'm doing is essentially saying, 'I want more land to be devoted to growing my food.'

I probably spend more on food than a lot of people, and I feel good about the whole food chain I'm supporting when I'm doing it. But even I have to remind myself. I'm always complaining about the prices at the farmer's market.

My goal is to go from the industrial food system toward a real food system where you understand what you are eating.

You see, the thing about us humans is we overcomplicate things. To eat, our food manufacturing processes work on a huge scale, clearing land, rearing livestock, killing it, packaging it. Go big, only to shrink it all back down to small enough to shove in our mouths.

I think that most people are aware that it takes so much oil and water to produce what they're eating. But the problem is inherent within the solution, in so much as you don't want to tell people what to do.

If a kid ever realized what was involved in factory farming, they would never touch meat again.

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

For years, I've felt an obligation to harvest an animal, since all my life I've so mindlessly consumed them. But that was from the safety of my desk.

Locally produced foods - defined as those harvested within a 100-mile radius of one's home - have a lesser impact on the environment because of the decreased need for transportation from source to consumer.

The health of the planet is at stake, because the cruelty and the waste that accompanies the slaughter of billions of animals each year literally infects us all. We could consume healthy plant-based food produced at almost infinitely less cost. What does that say, really, about us and what we're doing... to animals and to ourselves?

There's a lot of American kids think their food comes from the grocery store and the concept of seasonality has no meaning to them whatsoever.

If people learned what they were contributing to every time they ate meat, eggs, or dairy, surely they would be just as motivated as I was to change.

In an organic system you don't waste anything. We need to educate the consumer to accept a tiny blemish on an orange.

Food is at the core of our lives in ways we don't always think about - how it affects our environment, how it affects our health and well-being, how it affects the expense of society, the expense of government.

The true cost to the world of a burger is far greater than the money you hand over to buy it.

With the growth of both urbanization and globalization, consumers are becoming increasingly disconnected from their food.

Meat consumption is a part of our evolutionary heritage; meat production has been a major component of modern food systems. Carnivory should remain, within limits, an important component of a civilization that finally must learn how to maintain the integrity of its only biosphere.

So much of today's food is based on the exploitation of animals and the environment. Yes, it's cheap, but at what cost?