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Quotes About Meat

Now that I know how supermarket meat is made, I regard eating it as a somewhat risky proposition. I know how those animals live and what's on their hides when they go to slaughter, so I don't buy industrial meat.
~ Michael Pollan
My last supper would be a charcuterie smorgasbord with every kind of meat, and sauces to dip them in.
~ Kelis
Seafarers are used to being exploited. At sea, the captain moans at chandlers who supply ships with green bananas that will never ripen; at fruit that goes moldy obscenely fast; at sub-standard meat.
~ Rose George
I'm on this diet where you're supposed to eat only fish and meat.
~ Lasse Hallstrom
For a slim, sexy body, it's important to eat protein every day - preferably at every meal. Be sure to ask about the origins of your meat, poultry and seafood. If you can't afford organic, free-range meats, opt for natural poultry, pork, and beef that's raised without antibiotics or hormones.
~ Suzanne Somers
The higher the surface area-to-volume ratio of a given amount of meat, the more efficiently it will freeze and the less damage it will suffer.
~ J. Kenji Lopez-Alt
He was a windblown blossom of some two hundred pounds with freckled teeth and the mellow voice of a circus barker. He was tough, fast and he ate red meat. Nobody could push him around. He was the kind of cop who spits on his blackjack every night instead of saying his prayers. But he had humorous eyes.
~ Raymond Chandler
I'm beginning to get it," I said slowly. "Take a family like yours and somebody in it has to be the dark meat.
~ Raymond Chandler
So many problems, however infinitely varied they first appear, turn out to be matters of money. I can't tell you how much this offends me. the value of money is a scam perpetrated by those who have it over those who don't; it's Emperor's New Clothes gone global. If chimps used money and we didn't, we wouldn't admire it. We'd find it irrational and primitive. Delusional. And why gold? Chimps barter with meat. The value of meat is self-evident.
~ Karen Joy Fowler
In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and even clothes, the discussion of fur is childish.
~ Karl Lagerfeld
Tradition, thou art for suckling children, Thou art the enlivening milk for babes, But no meat for men is in thee.
~ Stephen Crane
Wit, without wisdom, is salt without meat; and that is but a comfortless dish to set a hungry man down to.
~ George Horne
Man, it just cost me five dollars to beat my own meat... God bless the United States of America.
~ Doug Stanhope
Cooking meat over a fire is one of the most stirring of those ritual acts, usually performed outdoors, on special occasions, in public, and by men.
~ Michael Pollan
I think people who traditionally ate haggis wouldn't eat the good cuts, 'cause they'd sell the good cuts to make their money, so they get left with all the crap.
~ Scott Hutchison
The more red meat and blood we eat, the more bloodthirsty we get, the more violent we get. The more vegetarian food we eat, the more peace is taken into us.
~ Ziggy Marley
My poor little New Zealand: exporting frozen meat in peace, live meat in war.
~ Big James Henderson
The smallest changes, like I stopped eating meat and I've been doing different kinds of exercise like Yoga and stuff like that, little changes have made me feel a bit more at peace I think.
~ Ellie Goulding
Now don't get me wrong, I love animals, but I like eatin' 'em more... fun to pet, better to chew.
~ Jim Gaffigan
If any vegans came over for dinner, I could whip them up a salad, then explain my philosophy on being a carnivore: If God had not intended for us to eat animals, how come He made them out of meat?
~ Sarah Palin
It was partly for this reason that Musonius advocated a simple diet. More precisely, he thought it best to eat foods that needed little preparation, including fruits, green vegetables, milk, and cheese. He tried to avoid meat since it was, he thought, a food more appropriate for wild animals.
~ William B. Irvine
Faith hath an incarnating virtue, as they say of some strengthening meat; it feeds upon the promise, and that 'is perfect, converting'—or rather restoring —'the soul,' Ps. 19:7. Though
~ William Gurnall
The only feasible reason I can discover is a depraved appetite, giving an extraordinary craving for meat which we call "high." They are said to bury a dead body for a couple of days in the soil in a forest, and in that time, owing to the climate, it soon becomes putrid enough for the strongest stomachs.
~ David Livingstone
Sichuana," and "Nya," No, is identical. The men here deny that cannibalism is common: they eat only those killed in war, and, it seems, in revenge, for, said Mokandira, "the meat is not nice; it makes one dream of the dead man." Some west of Lualaba eat even those bought for the purpose of a feast; but I am not quite positive on this point: all agree in saying that human flesh is saltish, and needs but little condiment. And
~ David Livingstone