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| All of us face a variety of risks to our health as we go about our day-to-day lives.... Indoor air pollution is one risk that you can do something about. (US EPA) | [▲] | [▼] |
| We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need? (Lee Iacocca) | [▲] | [▼] |
| There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all. (Robert Orben) | [▲] | [▼] |
| We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words. (Anna Sewell) | [▲] | [▼] |
| An estimated 70 percent of antibiotics and related drugs produced in this country are used for nontherapeutic purposes such as accelerating animal growth and compensating for overcrowded and unsanitary conditions on 'factory farms.' This translates to ... almost eight times the amount given to humans to treat disease (Union of Concerned Scientists) | [▲] | [▼] |
| The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen. (Alice Walker) | [▲] | [▼] |
| I am a great eater of beef, and I believe that does harm to my wit. (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night) | [▲] | [▼] |
| The Pig, if I am not mistaken, Supplies us sausage, ham, and Bacon. Let others say his heart is big, I think it stupid of the Pig. (Ogden Nash, "The Pig") | [▲] | [▼] |
| We consider ourselves a nation of animal lovers, but by far the moment that we are with animals the most is when they are on our plates and we are about to eat them. (William Rivas-Rivas) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Weâ€â€human beingsâ€â€are part of 'biodiversity.' We are dependent on the whole food chain down below us. (Darrell Merrell) | [▲] | [▼] |
| We find ourselves ethically destitute just when, for the first time, we are faced with ultimacy, the irreversible closing down of the earth's functioning in its major life systems. Our ethical traditions know how to deal with suicide, homicide and even genocide, but these traditions collapse entirely when confronted with biocide, the killing of the life systems of the earth, and geocide, the devastation of the earth itself. (Father Thomas Berry) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Each one [of the Earth's 5 million invertebrate species] plays a role in its ecosystem. It's like we're tearing the cogs out of a great machine. The machine might work after you tear out ten cogs, but what happens when you tear out a hundred? (Scott Black) | [▲] | [▼] |
| A society is defined not only by what it creates, but by what it refuses to destroy. (John Sawhill) | [▲] | [▼] |
| I never saw a purple cow; I never hope to see one; But I can tell you, anyhow, I'd rather see than be one. (Gelett Burgess) | [▲] | [▼] |
| We are rightly appalled by the genetic effects of radiation; how then, can we be indifferent to the same effect in chemicals we disseminate widely in our environment? (Rachel Carson) | [▲] | [▼] |
| One in six Americans lives within a mile of a major toxic waste site. (Phil Clapp) | [▲] | [▼] |
| For mankind as a whole, a possession infinitely more valuable than individual life is our genetic heritage, our link with past and future... Yet genetic deterioration through man-made agents is the menace of our time. (Rachel Carson) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Men are naturally most impressed by diseases which have obvious manifestations, yet some of their worst enemies creep on them unobtrusively. (Dr. René Dubos) | [▲] | [▼] |
| There are thousands of different chemicals in the environment that may cause adverse human health effects. Little is known about the toxicological properties of most of these chemicals. (US EPA) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Despite progress, lead poisoning remains one of the top childhood environmental health problems today. Without further action, over the coming decades large numbers of young children may be exposed to lead in amounts that could impair their ability to learn and to reach their full potential. (President's Task Force on Environmental Health Risks and Safety Risks to Children) | [▲] | [▼] |