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Quotes About Meat

You don't give hired assassins supper, do you?" Quentin smiled. "No, but when a wolf follows your sleigh, you give it meat," he
~ Diana Wynne Jones
During lent, the only meat that the Catholic Church allows its followers to eat is salted fish. However, because people got very bored of fish at every supper for forty days, the church actually changed the definition of 'fish' to include puffins, beavers and turtles as they can all swim.
~ Jack Goldstein
He came out from somewhere at night and crept around the kitchen with a sharp razor in his white, fine-boned hand, shaving off slivers of meat, of nuts, of bread, until his plate, paper-thin, felt heavy to him.
~ Lydia Davis
As an animal lover and as a sometime-meat-eater, I've read so much about the emotional sophistication of pigs and cows and sheep that I do think twice when I do still eat them on occasion.
~ Bryan Fuller
Meat is a tremendous environmental challenge. It contributes enormous amounts of greenhouse gas, especially beef eating.
~ Michael Pollan
Wagyu is something that every meat lover should experience at least once.
~ Robb Walsh
The United Nations four or five years ago put out a study that said the meat industry, meat-eating, growing meat for food is the No. 1 killer of our planet - not No. 2 or No. 3: No 1. You know what's No. 2? Transportation. Everyone thinks that No. 1 is transportation, and goes out and buys a hybrid car. Screw the hybrid cars. Don't eat hamburgers.
~ Maggie Q
the Benedictine Rule, having no private property, abstaining from meat, and above all abstaining from sex.
~ Unknown
So, the kaiju have far too much volume, their muscles would snap, their lungs couldn't give them enough oxygen, they couldn't feed themselves enough energy, their nervous systems would run too slowly to move them around, their bones would tear out of their bodies, and by all known physical laws, they would lie groaning in their own pile of meat until they died.
~ John Scalzi
We consume the carcasses of creatures of like appetites, passions and organs with our own, and fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of pain and fear.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
Bread and dripping, Dorothy had mentioned. You couldn't offer that to man or boy now, not because they wouldn't eat it, although they wouldn't, but because meat doesn't produce dripping any more. The meat isn't real meat any more. Even when it looks like meat, it's something else.
~ Margaret Drabble
I think if you want to eat more meat you should kill it yourself and eat it raw so that you are not blinded by the hypocrisy of having it processed for you.
~ Unknown
You have to eat good! I eat gorgeous food. I eat sushi, I eat meat, I eat steaks. I eat more than you, I'm sure.
~ Unknown
If I had to narrow my choice of meats down to one for the rest of my life, I am quite certain that meat would be pork.
~ JAMES BEARD
You wanna know how good bacon is? To improve other food, they wrap it in bacon.
~ Jim Gaffigan
Every individual who eats flesh food, whether an animal is killed expressely for him or not, is supporting the trade of slaughtering and contributing to the violent deaths of harmless animals.
~ Philip Kapleau
I have always eaten animal flesh with a somewhat guilty conscience.
~ Albert Einstein
Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.
~ Fran Lebowitz
Our heavily meat-centered culture is at the very heart of our waste of the earth's productivity.
~ Frances Moore Lappé
It seems hopeless, hopeless. Those who eat meat [at public expense] are a mean, selfish lot, and so the country is doomed. Our only hope lies in the grass-roots folk who eat our traditional food.
~ Yoshida Shoin
I have been vegetarian for twelve years. And I have never been seriously ill. Vegetarian food strengthens the immune system. I think that meat makes you sick.
~ Bryan Adams
Thanks cows. I appreciate your tastiness.
~ Craig Ferguson
I didn't say the meat was tough. I said I didn't see the horse that is usually outside.
~ W. C. Fields
Our food system takes abundant grain,which people can't afford,and shrinks it into meat,which better-off people will pay for.
~ Frances Moore Lappé