The Ledger, every show
Every statement that passed quotation and attribution checks, across all 44 shows. Pick shows below, then mix any filter with any other.
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Friedrich: 80% of US antibiotics are fed to livestock, threatening medicine
“So, for example, in the United States, about 80% of all antibiotics that are produced by pharmaceutical companies, about 80% of them are fed to farm animals, which means that these bacteria are learning how to get around the antibiotics, and they may be usheri…”
Friedrich: Capping climate change under 2C by 2050 impossible without reduced meat intake
“According to Chatham House, the foremost think tank in Europe, it's a literal and scientific impossibility that we keep climate change under two degrees Celsius by 20 50. Unless meat consumption goes down, and right now it's going up.”
Friedrich: Chicken production incurs 800% caloric waste via feed conversion
“The most efficient meat is chicken. And according to the World Resources Institute, it takes nine calories in the form of corn or wheat or alfalfa or whatever you're feeding the chickens. It takes nine calories into a chicken. To get one calorie back out. So i…”
Friedrich: Chicken creates 40 times more climate impact per protein calorie than legumes
“The least climate change inducing meat, again, it's chicken, and yet on a per protein calorie basis, Chicken produces 40 times as much climate change as legumes, like soy and peas, which are two of the primary plant-based meat substitutes.”
Friedrich: Animal agriculture passes state laws to criminalize undercover farm investigations
“Animal agriculture is literally passing state laws to make it illegal to find out what happens on some of these factory farms and what happens in these slaughterhouses.”