Environmentally Friendly Eating

A vegan diet is by far the most environmentally friendly diet possible, whether it is feeding one person or an entire population. Small, organic fruit and vegetable farms scattered throughout the country and distributing their produce locally would represent the pinnacle of environmentally friendly eating, and of a society organized along Buddhist social principles. But unless and until that goal is achieved, any vegan or vegetarian diet is more compassionate, more respectful of the earth and all its living beings, and more consistent with Buddhist ideals than a diet based on animals products.

---The Great Compassion: Buddhism and Animals Rights, by Norm Phelps---