Meat Eating Quotes

• Not eating meat is a decision, eating meat is an instinct.

  Denis Leary

  Funny, Humor, Decision

  "Denis Leary: No Cure for Cancer". TV Special, www.imdb.com. 1993.

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• A human can be healthy without killing animals for food.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Food, Animal, Meat Consumption

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• The eating of meat extinguishes the seed of Great Kindness.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Kindness, Compassion

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• By eating meat we share responsibility for causing climate change, the destruction of our forests, and the poisoning of our air and water. The simple act of becoming a vegetarian can make a difference in the health of our planet.

  Nhat Hanh

  Buddhist, Peace, Responsibility

  "The World We Have: A Buddhist Approach to Peace and Ecology". Book by Nhat Hanh, September 1, 2008.

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• A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Food, Health, Animal

  Leo Tolstoy (graf) (1911). “The novels and other works of Lyof N. Tolstoï”

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• Not that I'm against meat eating. But I think we're eating too much.

  Michael Pollan

  Thinking, Too Much, Meat

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• If we're not supposed to eat animals, how come they're made out of meat?

  Tom Snyder

  Funny, Cute, Animal

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• Meat eating and a compassionate religion do not go hand in hand.

  Bodo Balsys

  Buddhist, Hands, Compassionate

  Bodo Balsys (2004). “Ahiṃsā: Buddhism and the Vegetarian Ideal”

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• Human overconsumption is a greater problem than human population growth, and meat eating is a big part of that problem.

  Sharon Gannon

  Growth, Population, Problem

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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• I do not like eating meat because I have seen lambs and pigs killed. I saw and felt their pain. They felt the approaching death. I could not bear it. I cried like a child. I ran up a hill and could not breathe. I felt that I was choking. I felt the death of the lamb.

  Vaslav Nijinsky

  Death, Children, Pain

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

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• The hardest part of returning to a truly healthy environment may be changing the current totally unsustainable heavy-meat-eating culture of increasing numbers of people around the world. But we must try. We must make a start, one by one.

  Jane Goodall

  Numbers, People, Healthy

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• But ...meat eating in any form, in any manner, and in any place is unconditionally and once and for all prohibited ...Meat eating I have not permitted to anyone, I do not permit, I will not permit.

  Gautama Buddha

  Vegetarianism, Eating Meat, Permit

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• I just could not stand the idea of eating meat - I really do think that it has made me calmer.... People's general awareness is getting much better, even down to buying a pint of milk: the fact that the calves are actually killed so that the milk doesn't go to them but to us cannot really be right, and if you have seen a cow in a state of extreme distress because it cannot understand why its calf isn't by, it can make you think a lot.

  Kate Bush

  Thinking, Vegetarianism, Ideas

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• You take this meat eating. Many people have to kill the animals because of your non-vegetarianism. You are responsible for the death of those animals. They are killed because you eat them. This is a sin. What a sin to kill innocent animals and eat them.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Animal, Vegetarianism, People

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• We know it (meat eating) is indisputably the number one cause of global warming. So what does it mean exactly to be an environmentalist on a daily basis if you are not thinking about the number one cause of global warming or one of the top two or three causes of all other environmental problems? Does it mean you are necessarily someone who doesn't care about the environment? Obviously not, but it might mean you have a blind spot for something big.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Mean, Thinking, Blind Spots

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• In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and clothes and even handbags, the discussion of fur is childish.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Shoes, Clothes, Fur

  "Fashion Designer Karl Lagerfeld Defends Fur: Kill 'Beasts' Before They Kill Us". www.foxnews.com. January 3, 2009.

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• In fact, we would know ourselves that we are not meant to be meat eaters, and we would not have allowed ourselves to become conditioned to meat eating in the first place, if the effects of meat eating were felt right away. But since heart disease, cancer, diabetes, osteoporosis, etc. usually take many years to develop, we are able to separate them from their cause (or contributing factors) and go on happily eating an animal-based diet.

  Sharon Gannon

  Cancer, Heart, Animal

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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• The American fast food diet and the meat eating habits of the wealthy around the world support a world food system that diverts food resources from the hungry. A diet higher in whole grains and legumes and lower in beef and other meat is not just healthier for ourselves but also contributes to changing the world system that feeds some people and leaves others hungry.

  Walden Bello

  Vegetarianism, People, Support

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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, People

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• The whole underside of our society has always been violence and still is. Churches, laws - everybody seems to think that man is a noble savage. But he's only an animal. A meat-eating, talking animal. Recognize it. He also has grace and love and beauty. But don't say to me we're not violent.

  Sam Peckinpah

  Animal, Men, Thinking

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• 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

  Thinking, Years, Meat Industry

  "‘Nikita’ Star Maggie Q On What’s Ahead In Season 3 And Her New PETA Campaign". Interview with Laura Prudom, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 8, 2013.

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• The symbolism of meat-eating is never neutral. To himself, the meat-eater seems to be eating life. To the vegetarian, he seems to be eating death. There is a kind of gestalt-shift between the two positions which makes it hard to change, and hard to raise questions on the matter at all without becoming embattled.

  Mary Midgley

  Life, Death, Philosophy

  Mary Midgley (1998). “Animals and why They Matter”, p.27, University of Georgia Press

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• But when, at the end of my sophomore year, I became a philosophy major and started doing my first seriously pretentious thinking, I became a vegetarian again. The kind of willful forgetting that I was sure meat eating required felt too paradoxical to the intellectual life I was trying to shape. I thought life could, should, and must conform to the mold of reason. You can imagine how annoying this made me.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Philosophy, Thinking, Years

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

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• We live in a culture that has institutionalized the oppression of animals on at least two levels: in formal structures such as slaughterhouses, meat markets, zoos, laboratories, and circuses, and through our language. That we refer to meat eating rather than to corpse eating is a central example of how our language transmits the dominant culture's approval of this activity.

  Carol J. Adams

  Zoos, Animal, Two

  Carol J. Adams (2015). “The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory”, p.82, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• We take these animals and completely violate who they are. We use them, abuse them, and deprive them all their lives…then we cut their throats, shred them and eat them! Morally, I’m against it, ethically, I can’t justify it, and ecologically, it’s just insane. The thought of meat-eating makes me shudder. As far as wearing fur is concerned, it is the rudest, most inconsiderate, selfish and sick façade I can imagine.

  River Phoenix

  Selfish, Cutting, Animal

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