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Quotes About Meat

Bologna is a deli meat for people with eyes.
~ Mitch Hedberg
My dad actually was a wonderful person, and also happened to be a hunter and fisherman. And my brothers and I never would eat meat our whole lives. We just wouldn't eat it. We would refuse it. Of course, in that day and age you kind of got forced to eat it. But the minute we all became teenagers, we foreswore it.
~ Maggie Baird
The perception of juiciness involves a complex jumble of things, including how quickly juices are squeezed out of meat fibers by our teeth, how much saliva we produce, and the ratio of liquid fat to water-based liquid.
~ J. Kenji Lopez-Alt
What has always puzzled me is the flexibility of God's word. For instance, Catholics can now eat meat on Fridays. And limbo has been abolished. How does this work? Who tells them?
~ Simon Hoggart
Let a woman learn only a handful of basic finishes for her meat, and she will become a cook instead of a housewife. Butter and cream, for example. What chicken is there - what veal, what pork - indeed, what shrimp, scallops, oysters, or clams, that will not come to a glorious end if, five minutes before they leave the stove, they are graced with a lump of butter and as many tablespoons of cream as can be spared?
~ Robert Farrar Capon
Lamb was the worst-cooked meat in America. Some culinary know-nothing had sold the entire country on 175 degrees as the correct internal temperature for a done leg. Done-in would have been a better word.
~ Robert Farrar Capon
We ate a bowl of rice for breakfast and had the same for supper. Once a marine complained of worms in the rice to one of our two doctors. "They're dead," he laughed. "They can't hurt you. Eat them, and be glad you have fresh meat.
~ Robert Leckie
Although not all flesh is forbidden, everything that is forbidden is flesh.
~ Leon R. Kass
The hunter who consistently brought meat back displayed daring and courage, two qualities that females desired in a potential mate. Thus hunting possessed an erotic overtone: meat was an aphrodisiac.
~ Leonard Shlain
I was a vegetarian for a year. Not out of some moral choice, but because I wanted new stuff to taste. Except tofu. Fuck tofu. It's the lamest reason to chew. And in the end how do we know that vegetables aren't more intelligent and sensitive forms of life than those made of meat? We don't.
~ Lewis Black
Dear Cook, please lend a frying-pan To me as quickly as you can." "And wherefore should I lend it you?" "The reason, Cook, is plain to view. I wish to make an Irish stew." "What meat is in that stew to go?" "My sister'll be the contents!" "Oh!" "You'll lend the pan to me, Cook?" "No!" Moral: Never stew your sister.
~ Lewis Carroll
Innocents, the meat in a ghastly sandwich between an uncaring society and a vengeful state.
~ Bryce Courtenay
Christ is the meat, the bread, the food of our souls. Nothing is in him of a higher spiritual nourishment than his love, which we should always desire.
~ John Owen
I am the instrument of a firm which installs instruments to protect the instruments of firms which produce meat cloth machines and whisky, instruments to feed, dress, move and stupefy us.
~ Alasdair Gray
Meat was what men liked in sandwiches—and if the man was sophisticated, then he might like a bit of mustard as well.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
Factory farming is one of the biggest contributors to the most serious environmental problems. The meat industry causes more greenhouse gas emissions than all the cars, trucks, planes and ships in the world.
~ Joan Jett
Ugh." I glanced at my own freezer, which is about the size of a shoebox. No bodies there! No red meat, either.  I can't afford it, and my daughter has become a chick-a-terian. That was my word for "a person who only eats chicken and no other meat.
~ Joanna Campbell Slan
But the fact of the matter is that all scientific evidence would show, based upon what we know about this disease, that muscle cuts - that is, the meat of the animal itself - should not cause any risk to human health.
~ Ann Veneman
Henry studied Merri Lee, then Meg. "Humans don't like mice?" "Not in the building!" Meg said. "And not around food," Merri Lee added. The three terra indigene looked baffled. "But it's fresh meat," the brown-haired woman finally said.
~ Anne Bishop
Further, I must not dream for when I do I see the table set and a faltering crone at my place, her eyes burnt by cigarettes as she eats betrayal like a slice of meat.
~ Anne Sexton
le vieux s'est levé, reclamant qu'ils ne soit plus traité comme des chiens, la viande a été changée
~ Annie Ernaux
For lunch, I was given a large piece of boiled meat on some tired cabbage leaves with prominent ribs and veins, filling the whole plate. I couldn't touch it. I felt that I had been served my own placenta.
~ Annie Ernaux
I really love fish, so I'll mix between that and meat, but I have to have protein. I can't survive without it.
~ Ana Ivanovic
If I wanted to eat all the protein I need from food, I would have to eat something like 10 chickens per day. That is impossible.
~ Junior dos Santos