Eating Animals Quotes - Page 2

• I have to eat in a way that's good for me.

  Mike McCready

  Way

  "A Conversation with Pearl Jam Guitarist Mike McCready". Interview with Rick Turner, www.everydayhealth.com. June 25, 2004.

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• You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Distance, Vegetarianism, Ethics

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.4, Harvard University Press

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• If we pursue our habit of eating animals, and if our neighbour follows a similar path, will we need to go to war against our neighbour to secure greater pasturage, because ours will not be enough to sustain us, and our neighbour will have a similar need to wage war on us for the same reason.

  Socrates

  War, Animal, Needs

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• If beef is your idea of 'real food for real people,' you'd better live real close to a real good hospital.

  Neal Barnard

  Real, Animal, Rights

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• 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.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Book, Writing, Animal

  "Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, 2010.

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• May all that have life be delivered from suffering.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Animal, Suffering

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• Perhaps in the back of our minds we already understand, without all the science I've discussed, that something terribly wrong is happening. Our sustenance now comes from misery. We know that if someone offers to show us a film on how our meat is produced, it will be a horror film. We perhaps know more than we care to admit, keeping it down in the dark places of our memory-- disavowed. When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Memories, Dark, Science

  "Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, March 4, 2010.

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• We don't need to eat anyone who would run, swim, or fly away if he could.

  James Cromwell

  Karma, Running, Food

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• If nothing matters, there's nothing to save.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Matter, Nothing Matters, Ifs

  "Everything Is Illuminated". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, April 16, 2002.

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• Elsewhere the paper notes that vegetarians and vegans (including athletes) 'meet and exceed requirements' for protein. And, to render the whole we-should-worry-about-getting-enough-protein-and-therefore-eat-meat idea even more useless, other data suggests that excess animal protein intake is linked with osteoporosis, kidney disease, calcium stones in the urinary tract, and some cancers. Despite some persistent confusion, it is clear that vegetarians and vegans tend to have more optimal protein consumption than omnivores.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Cancer, Food, Athlete

  "Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, March 4, 2010..

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• Ironically, the utterly unselective omnivore -- "I'm easy; I'll eat anything" -- can appear more socially sensitive than the individual who tries to eat in a way that is good for society.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Trying, Way, Easy

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  If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.

  Paul McCartney

  Wall, Food, Health

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We need a better way to talk about eating animals, a way that doesn't ignore, or even just shruggingly accept things like habits, cravings, family and history, but rather incorporates them into the conversation. The more they are allowed in, the more strongly we will want to follow our best instincts.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Animal, Needs, Able

  "A New Way To Talk About Eating Animals". Interview with Jeff Glor, www.cbsnews.com. November 3, 2009.

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• I also became a vegetarian when I was 14 because I realized eating animals was cruel.

  Julia Hill

  Animal, Vegetarian, Eating

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• Have you ever known an alcoholic, a cigarette smoker, or a heroin user to be rational when it came to alcohol, cigarettes, or heroin? Of course not. And there is NO such thing as a rational - or ethical - meat, dairy, egg and honey-eater when it comes to animal issues and whether humans should be enslaving, murdering and eating animals, or using them as test subjects, clothing and entertainment.

  Gary Yourofsky

  Animal, Eggs, Issues

  Source: www.all-creatures.org

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• Cruelty...prefers abstraction. Some have tried to resolved this gap by hunting or butchering an animal themselves, as if those experiences might somehow legitimize the endeavor of eating animals. This is very silly. Murdering someone would surely prove that you are capable of killing, but it woudln't be the most reasonable way to understand why you should or shouldn't do it.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Silly, Animal, Hunting

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• Some people feel that humans have a right to eat other animals but not to trash the earth. They may choose veganism because a vegan's ecological footprint is light, but once they are not invested in eating animals, they are more likely to be willing to learn the details of what happens to them. That learning will encourage compassionate people to stick with a plant-based diet.

  Karen Dawn

  Animal, Light, People

  "Animal Advocate and Author Karen Dawn: The Welfare of Animals and the Earth". Interview with Barbi Twins, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Anyone who cares about the Earth - really cares - must stop eating animals.

  Linda McCartney

  Animal, Who Cares, Earth

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• Now I can look at you in peace; I don't eat you any more.

  Franz Kafka

  Animal, Compassion, Vegetarianism

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• We all love animals. Why do we call some 'pets' and others 'dinner?'

  K. D. Lang

  Animal, Vegetarianism, Pet

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• Honestly, I would eat cardboard rather than go back to eating animals.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Animal, Eating, Honestly

  "Vegan Celebrities", abcnews.go.com.

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• I personally don't like eating animals. I'm not the kind of person that tries to preach to other people. But, for me, I don't feel right about doing it. That's the main reason why I stay vegetarian...I know the guys that have switched [to vegetarian] all swear by it-they say they love how it makes them feel.

  Jake Shields

  Animal, People, Guy

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• If we are not given the option to live without violence, we are given the choice to center our meals around harvest or slaughter, husbandry or war. We have chosen slaughter. We have chosen war. That's the truest version of our story of eating animals. Can we tell a new story?

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  War, Animal, Choices

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• The wrongfulness, the immorality of eating animal food has been recognized by all mankind during all the conscious life of humanity. Why, then have people generally not come to acknowledge this law? The answer is that the moral progress of humanity is always slow; but that the sign of true, not casual Progress, is in uninterruptedness and its continual acceleration. And one cannot doubt that vegetarianism has been progressing in this manner

  Leo Tolstoy

  Animal, Vegetarianism, Law

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• Aspects that we consider normal today could very well be repugnant in the future - eating animals, for one thing, or abundant choice, or invasive surgery. I was simply trying to demonstrate that what is acceptable today may not be acceptable forever, and vice-versa.

  Jasper Fforde

  Animal, Choices, Forever

  "An interview with Jasper Fforde". Book Browse Interview, www.bookbrowse.com. 2010.

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