Quotes About Consumption

Americans eat 150 times as many chickens as we did only eighty years ago.

That's what's at the bottom of all of this, and what each person has to ask himself. How much suffering will you tolerate for your food?

Ninety-nine percent of all land animals eaten or used to produce milk and eggs in the United States are factory farmed. So although there are important exceptions, to speak about eating animals today is to speak about factory farming.

No podemos alegar ignorancia, solo indiferencia. Los que vivimos hoy sabemos más. Tenemos la oportunidad y la responsabilidad que nos da vivir en un momento en que la crítica hacia las granjas industriales ha llegado a la conciencia pública. Somos aquellos a quienes se nos preguntará, con toda la justicia del mundo: ¿Qué hiciste cuando te enteraste de lo que implica comer animales?

The average distance our meat travels hovers around fifteen hundred miles. That's like me driving from Brooklyn to the Texas Panhandle for lunch.

Food is not so much a symbol of freedom as the first requirement of freedom. We eat foods that are native to America on Thanksgiving to acknowledge that fact. In many ways, Thanksgiving initiates a distinctly American ideal of ethical consumerism. The Thanksgiving meal is America's founding act of conscientious consumption.

Rationally, factory farming is so obviously wrong, in so many ways. In all of my reading and conversations, I've yet to find a credible defense of it. But food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, and identity.

We have waged war, or rather let a war be waged, against all of the animals we eat. This war is new and has a name: factory farming.

Wszyscy przeczuwamy niebezpiecze?stwo. Nasze jedzenie powstaje kosztem ogromnego cierpienia.Gdy kto? proponuje nam obejrzenie filmu o produkcji mi?sa, spodziewamy si? horroru. Mo?liwe, ?e wiemy wi?cej, ni? nam si? wydaje. Wolimy jednak odsuwa? od siebie t? ?wiadomo??. Jedz?c mi?so, spo?ywamy udr?czone zwierz?. Z bia?ka pochodz?cego od torturowanych stworze? powstaj? nasze mi??nie.

Nie mo?emy wystÄ™powa? w obronie obojÄ™tnoÅ›ci i ignorancji. Kolejne pokolenia coraz wiÄ™cej wiedzÄ… o tym, jak wyglÄ…da dziaÅ'alno?? przemysÅ'u. Å»yjemy w czasach, w których krytyczne podejÅ›cie do chowu przemysÅ'owego staÅ'o siÄ™ cz??ciÄ… zbiorowej Å›wiadomoÅ›ci. To nas bÄ™dÄ… pyta?: jak zareagowaÅ'eÅ›, gdy dowiedziaÅ'eÅ› siÄ™ prawdy o zjadaniu zwierzÄ…t.

Different people will draw the line in different places with regard to farms like Paul's and Frank's. People I respect draw it differently. But for me, for now —for my family now —my concerns about the reality of what meat is and has become are enough to make me give it up altogether.

it strange how upset people get about a few dozen baseball players taking growth hormones, when we're doing what we're doing to our food animals and feeding them to our children?

The question of eating animals hits chords that resonate deeply with our sense of self—our memories, desires, and values. Those resonances are potentially controversial, potentially threatening, potentially inspiring, but always filled with meaning.

If it was your child, do you want your child to suffer three years, three months, three weeks, three hours, three minutes? A turkey chick isn't a human baby, but it suffers. I've never met anyone in the industry — manager, vet, worker, anyone — who doubts that they feel pain. So how much suffering is acceptable? That's what's at the bottom of all of this, and what each person has to ask himself. How much suffering will you tolerate for your food? My

When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.

Perhaps in the back of our minds we already understand, without all the science I've discussed, that something terribly wrong is happening. Our sustenance now comes from misery. We know that if someone offers to show us a film on how our meat is produced, it will be a horror film.

Ever eating, never cloying, All-devouring, all-destroying Never finding full repast, Till I eat the world at last.

For this kind of commodity will not bear exportation, the flesh being of too tender a consistence to admit a long continuance in salt, although perhaps I could name a country which would be glad to eat up our whole nation without it.

To know your organism, you must eat it.' Not just the flies: the pupae. And not just to horrify people, but to know.

I could drink a case of you, darlin'...and I would still be on my feet, yes I would still be on my feet...

Am cugetat c? nici chiar în limbajele umane nu exist? propoziÈ›ie care s? nu implice universul întreg; a spune tigrul înseamn? a spune tigrii care l-au z?mislit, cerbii È™i È›estoasele pe care el le-a devorat, p??unea din care s-au hr?nit cerbii, p?mântul care a fost maic? a p??unii, cerul care a dat lumin? p?mântului.

So the essence of life is this eating of itself! Life lives on lives

Dr. Rush's Bilious Pills," laxatives that were 50 percent mercury. I think they were reusable: you swallowed one, suffered the violent scatological consequences, reclaimed the pill, washed it and saved it for the next poor sucker.

Leo. Es como una enfermedad. Leo todo lo que cae en las manos, bajo los ojos: diarios, libros escolares, carteles, pedazos de papel encontrados por la calle, recetas de cocina, libros infantiles.