"It is all very well for 2% of the population to live in a monastic state of meatlessness while everyone else gorges their way towards environmental meltdown or the nearest heart clinic. Vegetarianism is good for the willing minority, but not much use as a campaign tool."
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Tristram Stuart is a renowned British environmentalist, author, and food waste campaigner, celebrated for his groundbreaking work in raising awareness about global food waste. Born in 1974, Stuart founded the organization Feedback, which brilliantly advocates for sustainable food systems. His influential book, "Waste: Uncovering the Global Food Scandal," highlights the staggering amounts of edible food discarded yearly, urging a paradigm shift in how society perceives food consumption. Stuart's dedication to social and environmental issues continues to inspire change, making him a key voice in the fight against food waste.
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"Determining the value of individual texts has been an ideological scuffle in literary criticism for centuries: but the environmental cost of printing them hauls this dispute from the ivory tower into day-to-day decision-making. Is it right to write? The publishing industry is slowly beginning to commit to using sustainably harvested trees."
Tristram Stuart"The manufacture and running of all the world's computers, the toxicity of the hardware mountains that we currently dump on other countries; all this can be totted up on the environmental account of web-users and its authors."
Tristram Stuart"Viewed from a holistic ecological perspective, some meat - such as conscientiously hunted animals - involves less suffering and environmental damage than arable agriculture, while both of these are significantly less harmful than indiscriminately purchasing meat on the market."
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"Vegetarians have been around for a very long time - Pythagoreans forbade eating animals more than 2,500 years ago - but even as the environmental evidence mounted, they didn't appear to be winning the argument."
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