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Quotes About Meat

However, among people who eat cooked diets, there is no difference in body weight between vegetarians and meat eaters: when our food is cooked we get as many calories from a vegetarian diet as from a typical American meat-rich diet. It is only when eating raw that we suffer poor weight gain.
~ Richard W. Wrangham
An animal slaughtered without being stressed retains more glycogen in its muscles. After death the glycogen converts to lactic acid, which promotes denaturation and therefore a more tender meat.
~ Richard W. Wrangham
Phyllis Kaberry's description of an aborigine camp in western Australia is typical: "The Aborigines continually craved for meat, and any man was apt to declare, 'me hungry alonga bingy,' though he had had a good meal of yams and damper a few minutes before. The camp on such occasions became glum, lethargic, and unenthusiastic about dancing.
~ Richard W. Wrangham
The preface? Why would he waste time with the preface? Skip the preface and move on to the meat of the thing!
~ Kenneth Oppel
Oh,Angus, where's the beef?
~ Kerrelyn Sparks
Then Kabul's dogs, who had developed a taste for human meat, would feast. All
~ Khaled Hosseini
Maybe I shouldn't roll over and let her have him so easily. I recalled how possessive I'd been about Brandon. I thought of what Mel would say: "Stop being a puss and take your toy back. What are you—minced meat?" Selena asked him, "Will you say back there again?" He complied. With his accent, it sounded like a rumbly bag dare. "Cajun is sooo hawt, J.D.
~ Kresley Cole
He is my dog, Toto, answered Dorothy. Is he made of tin, or stuffed? asked the Lion. Neither. He's a-- a-- a meat dog, said the girl.
~ L. Frank Baum
Neither. He's a—a—a meat dog.
~ L. Frank Baum
We are all vegetable, in this country. Are you not vegetable, also? No, answered the Wizard. People on top of the earth are all meat. Will
~ L. Frank Baum
The sailor man had one meat leg and one hickory leg, and he often said the wooden one was the best of the two.
~ L. Frank Baum
A growing body of scientific research links antibiotic use in animals to the emergence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria: in the animals' own guts, in the manure that farmers use on crops or store on their land, and in human illnesses as well. Resistant bacteria move from animals to humans in groundwater and dust, on flies, and via the meat those animals get turned into.
~ Deborah Blum
Not eating meat is a decision, eating meat is an instinct.
~ Denis Leary
I've always been a monster,' Scapegrace told her, 'but now, finally, my physical for reflects my inner darkness.' 'You smell terrible.' 'That's the smell of evil.' 'It's like rancid meat and bad eggs.' 'Evil," Scapegrace insisted.
~ Derek Landy
It's more useful to have knowledge about cuts of meat than a lot of money.
~ Jacques Pepin
It is against the law to use polar bear meat to make burgers.
~ Jeffrey Fisher
I like to cook Puerto Rican food. That's what I grew up on: rice, beans, meat, some Italian-American food. I know my way around the kitchen.
~ Jennifer Lopez
Bryne want kill dinosaur, i said pantomiming what i thought passed for a descent dinosaur killing motion. For the first time in weeks, Ali laughed. Go on. And if you're very good, Ali show Bryn big heaping secret. fiiiiiirrrre. Make tasty warm dinosaur meat.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
She places the orders for cases of frozen meat, huge cans of wax beans. She makes sure they stay
~ Jennifer McMahon
The shelves had the melancholy emptiness and the false luxury of families where inferior meat is purchased, so as to be able to put flowers on the table.
~ Émile Zola
Experiment to me Is every one I meet. If it contain a kernel? The figure of a nut Presents upon a tree, Equally plausibly; But meat within is requisite, To squirrels and to me.
~ Emily Dickinson
Me, Artemis blurted. I'm the nut. Artemis could have sworn the squid winked at him before bringing the five-ton chunk of spacecraft swinging down toward the morsel of meat in its blue shell. I'm the nut! Artemis shouted again, a little hysterically, it must be said.
~ Eoin Colfer
And I thought, That pretty much sums it up. Meatballs, man. Like what's the karma in a meatball? Only humans make balls out of other animals. Like when you're in kindergarten and you're coloring in your coloring book: What does the doggy say? "Bowwow!" What does the kitty say? "Meeoww!" What does the moocow say? "AARRGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!
~ Eric Bogosian
the important thing, Jacques instructed me, was to get the pan hot as you could before adding the meat - that, and always give good wine to your butcher.
~ Eric Ripert