Quotes About Meat

For meat, milk, and eggs labelled organic, animals must: 1) be raised on organic feed (without most synthetic pesticides/fertilizers) 2) be traced 3) not be fed antibiotics or growth hormones 4) have access to the outdoors

On average, Americans eat the equivalent of 21,000 entire animals in a lifetime—one

Slaughterhouse workers have the highest injury rate of any job —27 percent annually —and receive low pay to kill as many as 2,050 cattle a shift.)

Almost always, when I told someone I was writing a book about "eating animals," they assumed, even without knowing anything about my views, that it was a case for vegetarianism. It's a telling assumption, one that implies not only that a thorough inquiry into animal agriculture would lead one away from eating meat, but that most people already know that to be the case. (What assumptions did you make upon seeing the title of this book?)

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

And I'll tell you another thing: if consumers don't want to pay the farmer to do it right, they shouldn't eat meat.

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.

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.

Just as nothing we do has the direct potential to cause nearly as much animal suffering as eating meat, no daily choice that we make has a greater impact on the environment.

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

I tried the paleo diet, which is the caveman diet - lots of meat. And I tried the calorie restriction diet: The idea is that if you eat very, very little - if you're on the verge of starvation, you will live a very long time, whether or not you want to, of course.

CITIZENS, we bring good news! In your kitchens, in your offices, on your factory floors—wherever you hear this broadcast, turn up the volume! The first success we have to report is that our Grass into Meat Campaign is a complete

The religions have passed the climacteric; they're now decadent. They can remain like that for a few centuries yet. What revolutions won't do, will be done by evolution. One may regret living at a period when it's impossible to form an idea of the shape the world of the future will assume. But there's one thing I can predict to eaters of meat, that the world of the future will be vegetarian!

Meat has become a passion for me.

I don't drink milk, and I don't eat bread, pasta or rice. But I eat a lot of meat, chicken, fish and salads.

Consumers are going to have get used to eating less meat - to paying more for better quality meat and eating significantly less of it.

It is meat,' he said. 'That's all it is. The souls have left their bodies and are in heaven with God. All that is left here are the carcasses, which are no more human beings than the dead flesh of the cattle we eat at home.

He is not like Ron Swanson at all because he's very emotional and vulnerable. He is all of the things that I guess Ron was really deep down. He's not a Libertarian, but he does like bacon and meat.

I'm really still a child of the Forties. I still think about it a lot, about the repercussions of armed conflict. Until 1953 we had rationing. We couldn't buy meat, we couldn't buy pleasurable goods like cigarettes and sweets. I didn't starve - my family were lucky - but I knew what it was like standing in line waiting for foodstuffs.

I was a piece of meat. I was betrayed by the business of football.

I've always been a big fan of ribs.

One of the jobs I had was cutting out the blood clots on a side of beef.

Even though I now eat meat, I have halloumi every day - even at breakfast.

Way back in the 1970s, I was eating a steak, and I looked down, and for the first time it suddenly looked like flesh to me - like a dead creature. In a flash, I realized that every time I ate any kind of meat, something had been killed for me, and I stopped eating all animals, not just cows and pigs but chickens and fish.