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• My refrigerator is full of kale and greens. I can't imagine something greasy, or eating meat.

  Pamela Anderson

  Kale, Meat, Imagine

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• Good Viking genes, being vegetarian and having rowdy dogs and kids definitely keep me in shape. Not eating meat gives me the energy I need to keep up with work, family and travel - I'm very active.

  Pamela Anderson

  Dog, Kids, Giving

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• To avoid causing terror to living beings, let the disciple refrain from eating meat... the food of the wise is that which is consumed by the sadhus [holymen]; it does not consist of meat... There may be some foolish people in the future who will say that I permitted meat-eating and that I partook of meat myself, but... meat-eating I have not permitted to anyone, I do not permit, I will not permit meat-eating in any form, in any manner and in any place; it is unconditionally prohibited for all.

  Gautama Buddha

  Wise, Vegetarianism, Meat Eating

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• To avoid causing terror to living beings, let the disciple refrain from eating meat.

  Gautama Buddha

  Vegetarianism, Meat, Eating

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• As for meat, let me say it upfront:Humans haven’t fully adapted to eating meat.

  Ori Hofmekler

  Meat, Eating, Let Me

  Ori Hofmekler (2007). “The Warrior Diet: Switch on Your Biological Powerhouse for High Energy, Explosive Strength, and a Leaner, Harder Body”, p.61, Blue Snake Books

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• I grew up in Texas, eating meat five times a day, and I liked meat. But I began being a vegetarian when I was 19 because I found that I felt better.

  Dean Ornish

  Texas, Meat, Vegetarian

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• Practitioners of tantra don't decide to break the rules. They are not particularly hung up on having sex or eating meat or drinking alcohol. They don't strive to do these things, nor do they strive to avoid them.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sex, Philosophy, Drinking

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• Eating meat is the most disgusting thing I can think of. It's like biting into your grandmother.

  Steven Morrissey

  Grandmother, Thinking, Meat

  "Auction of signed copy of Morrissey's Autobiography raises £8,000 for Peta", www.theguardian.com. December 31, 2013.

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• Most people don’t question the practice of eating meat. Many of these people care about animals and the environment, some deeply. But for some reason-force of habit, cultural norms, resistance to change-there is a fundamental disconnect whereby these feelings don’t translate into changes of behavior.

  Brian Greene

  Animal, Practice, People

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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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• If anyone wants to save the planet, all they have to do is just stop eating meat. That's the single most important thing you could do. It's staggering when you think about it. Vegetarianism takes care of so many things in one shot: ecology, famine, cruelty.

  Paul McCartney

  Thinking, Vegetarianism, Important

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• Just for a few tiny buds on your tongue you are killing live animals, with no sensitivity, with no awareness, with no love. It seems impossible; how can a man who has known love be capable of doing such things? A man who loves his wife, who loves his children goes on eating meat? Impossible.

  Rajneesh

  Children, Men, Animal

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• Our ancestors were eating meat over 2.5 million years ago. We mainly ate meat, fish, fruits, vegetables and nuts. We have to assume our physiology evolved in association with this diet. The balanced diet for our species was what we could acquire then, not what the government and doctors tell us to eat now.

  Lionel Tiger

  Doctors, Government, Vegetables

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• I love eating meat, but I love our planet even more. So I will join this campaign and stop eating meat at least one day a week.

  Richard Branson

  One Day, Energy, Meat

  "McCartneys launch veggie campaign and more in Mirror.co.uk's Monday gossip round-up". www.mirror.co.uk. June 15, 2009.

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• I think if you're against cruelty and you look at what happens to animals in slaughterhouses and on factory farms, you have to be completely against eating meat.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Animal, Thinking, Meat

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• I grew up a vegetarian. Then, because I grew up in the states, I started slowly eating meat. First it was bologna sandwiches, or pepperoni on pizza.

  Padma Lakshmi

  Sandwiches, Bologna, Firsts

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• Whether it's the Axis of Evil, or the evils of eating meat, it is a concept that has all but lost the impact it once had, because everyone thinks different things in this world are evil. PETA thinks what we do to animals is evil, but I think their overzealous approach is evil. Evil, in more ways than one, is comparable to the truth: definitions vary from one individual to the next.

  Corey Taylor

  Memorable, Animal, Thinking

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• If you like eating meat but want to eat ethically, this is the book for you. From the hard-headed, clear-eyed, and sympathetic perspective of butchers who care deeply about the animals whose parts they sell, the customers who buy their meats, and the pleasures of eating, this book has much to teach. It’s an instant classic, making it clear why meat is part of the food revolution. I see it as the new Bible of meat aficionados and worth reading by all food lovers, meat-eating and not.

  Marion Nestle

  Reading, Book, Animal

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• If anyone wants to save the planet, all they have to do is just stop eating meat.

  Paul McCartney

  Animal, Meat, Want

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

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• I stopped eating beef at 13 and stopped eating all meat a few years ago. I would feel guilty that what was on my plate was walking around yesterday. Either I could live with that or stop eating meat. I choose the latter, and I'm happier for it.

  Carrie Underwood

  Years, Yesterday, Meat

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• Eating meat is a leftover of the greatest brutality [killing]; the transition to vegetarianism is the first and most natural consequence of enlightenment.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Vegetarianism, Enlightenment, Meat

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• Great and good men and women stirred sugar into their coffee knowing that it had been picked by slaves. Kind, good ancestors of all of us never questioned hangings, burnings, tortures, inequality, suffering and injustice that today revolt us. If we dare to presume to damn them with our fleeting ideas of morality, then we risk damnation from our descendants for whatever it is that we are doing that future history will judge as intolerable and wicked: eating meat, driving cars, appearing on TV, visiting zoos, who knows?

  Stephen Fry

  Zoos, Coffee, Men

  "The future's in the past" by Stephen Fry, www.theguardian.com. July 8, 2006.

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• Everything we eat begins with a plant turning solar energy into carbohydrates. Everything. Whether we're eating meat or eating vegetables, it all begins there. So I'm always interested in taking things back to the beginning.

  Michael Pollan

  Vegetables, Energy, Meat

  "Michael Pollan: The Omnivore’s Dilemma". Interview with Anne E. McBride, leitesculinaria.com. March 20, 2007.

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• Eating meat and dairy products is the SAD (Standard American Diet) diet. The SAD diet can only make you sad. It causes heart disease, cancer, diabetes and makes you fat. Raising animals for food destroys the environment... And those animals are not happy. They are enslaved and live humiliating, fearful lives of abuse and tremendous suffering. Veganism turns sadness into joy.

  Sharon Gannon

  Cancer, Sadness, Heart

  "Choose Joy, Eat Vegan". Mantra Yoga + Health Magazine, August 7, 2014.

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• I'll quit eating meat when you get a cow out here to beat me at a poetry slam. Only so many words rhyme with 'Mooo.' I mean, yes, we're supposed to be better stewards; yes, we're supposed to take care of the earth; yes, we're supposed to honor the sacrifices made by the animals; yes yes yes yes yes, but dammit, we're in charge, and you know why? It's because of these [holding out thumbs]...Maybe you think that carrots are less important than cows. I think they're equal, especially in a sauce.

  Sherman Alexie

  Mean, Sacrifice, Thinking

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