Last May, business executive, engineer, activist and author James Morris Hicks presented a Vegan Society of Hawaii lecture about the impact of animal ag on climate change. He restated an established, but widely underappreciated fact:
“On a per calorie basis, animal-based foods require over ten times as much land, water and energy as do plant-based foods. So, if we cannot take the animal out of the equation when it comes to feeding ourselves, we will never learn to live in harmony with nature, thereby placing the future of our civilization and our species in serious jeopardy.”