Paul Shapiro is the author of Clean Meat: How Growing Meat Without Animals Will Revolutionize Dinner and the World. He's also the CEO and co-founder of The Better Meat Co. and the host of the Business for Good Podcast. - Wikipedia
“When that day comes, it’s very likely that such a virus will also have its origin in humanity’s seemingly insatiable desire to eat animals, whether wild or domestic. The conditions in which we often farm animals today—crowding tens of thousands of animals wing-to-wing or snout-to-snout—serve as “amplifiers” for viral pandemics.”
“we’re throwing away eight calories of food every time we eat one calorie of chicken. This ratio doesn’t even take into account all the water it took to get that chicken from shell to shelf — more than a thousand gallons for just one bird. We save more water by forgoing the rotisserie chicken purchase than we would from skipping six months of showers.”
