Meat Quotes - Page 12

• [Airline food] is the tiniest food I've ever seen in my entire life. Any kind of meat that you get - chicken, steak, anything - has grill marks on each side, like somehow we'll actually believe there's an open-flame grill in the front of the plane.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Travel, Believe, Flames

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• All my life, I have been sickened by everything connected with meat-, fish-, and poultry eating. As a child, I saw apparently nice, kind people wring the necks of fowls, and I thought it foul; and I wondered if I could ever exert any influence to help bring such unworthiness to an end.

  Percy Grainger

  Children, Nice, People

  "How I Became a Meat-Shunner". American Vegetarian, Vol. V no. 4, p. 4, December 1946.

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• The talent of a meat packer, the morals of a money changer, and the manners of an undertaker.

  William Allen White

  Moral, Talent, Manners

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• Money is becoming increasingly plastic and digital. If there is a major disaster, let's say an asteroid strike, we'll go back to trading meats and furs. We won't need an abstraction, a dollar bill, but real tangible goods to survive.

  Kabir Sehgal

  Real, Asteroids, Digital

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I don't want to hear about the endless struggles to keep sex exciting, or the work it takes to plan a date night. I want to hear that you guys watch every episode of The Bachelorette together in secret shame, or that one got the other hooked on Breaking Bad and if either watches it without the other, they're dead meat. I want to see you guys high-five each other like teammates on a recreational softball team you both do for fun.

  Mindy Kaling

  Softball, Sex, Fun

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• As we have seen, bread, and especially dry bread, evokes secretion of considerably larger quantities of saliva than meat.

  Ivan Pavlov

  Dry, Bread, Evoke

  Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1957). “Experimental psychology, and other essays”

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• Let’s start with the most prominent ecological crisis of our time: global warming. When you look seriously at the numbers, you find that switching from a meat-based to a plant-based diet would do more to curb and reverse global warming than any other initiative.

  T. Colin Campbell

  Numbers, Looks, Global Warming

  T. Colin Campbell, Howard Jacobson (2013). “Whole: Rethinking the Science of Nutrition”, p.167, BenBella Books

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• In short, it is about the multiple health benefits of consuming plant-based foods, and the largely unappreciated health dangers of consuming animal-based foods, including all types of meat, dairy and eggs.

  T. Colin Campbell

  Animal, Eggs, Benefits

  T. Colin Campbell, Thomas M. Campbell (II.) (2006). “The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health”, p.21, BenBella Books

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• I believe if the viewing of slaughter was required to eat meat, most folks would become vegetarians.

  Howard Lyman

  Believe, Vegetarian, Slaughter

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• You, (my meat-eating friends), put your health at risk – that’s your business. But animal-based diets put the land, the water, the air, a society’s collective health, and even our collective pharmaceutical resources at risk. That’s my business. That’s everyone’s business.

  Howard Lyman

  Animal, Air, Land

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• There is, however, a moral basis for the vegetarian diet for which the indeterminate value of an animal's life takes on irrelevance. And that moral basis is a concern for the environment, a value as absolute as the value we all place on human life, since humanity will not survive for long on a poisoned planet. To be an environmentalist who happens to eat meat is like being a philanthropist who doesn't happen to give to charity.

  Howard Lyman

  Animal, Irrelevance, Vegetarian Diet

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• I can't even describe to anybody what it feels like to have my naked body shot across the world like a news flash against my will. It just makes me feel like a piece of meat that's being passed around for profit.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Feminist, Naked, News

  "The Jennifer Lawrence nude photo hack response is the end of the 'shamed starlet'" by Jessica Valenti, www.theguardian.com. October 8, 2014.

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• Hindus and Westerners alike see in the meat-eating taboos of India a triumph of morals over appetite. This is a dangerous misrepresentation of cultural processes. Hindu vegetarianism was a victory not of spirit over matter but of reproductive over productive forces.

  Marvin Harris

  Vegetarianism, Meat Eating, Victory

  Marvin Harris (2011). “Cannibals and Kings: Origins of Cultures”, p.229, Vintage

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• He was skinning a bear. I was terrified at first, because the corpse resembled a naked man quartered between two trees. He'd created a deadfall trap over some big talus blocks and the bear had fallen in. He used the skin for something and jerked the meat. If it wasn't astonishing enough behavior in a national park, the next day he made donuts, using bear fat for grease ! Surely, by now, he's created an empire somewhere in the world.

  Dave Cook

  Block, Men, Climbing

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• A boxer's diet should be low in fat and high in proteins and sugar. Therefore you should eat plenty of lean meat, milk, leafy vegetables, and fresh fruit and ice cream for sugar.

  Gene Tunney

  Sports, Vegetables, Ice

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• Jeff Carver is a hard sf writer who gets it right-his science and his people are equally convincing. NEPTUNE CROSSING combines his strengths, from a chilling look at alien machine intelligence, to cutting-edge chaos theory, to the pangs of finite humans in the face of the infinite. If you like intriguing ideas delivered in an exciting plot, this is your meat.

  Gregory Benford

  Cutting, Ideas, People

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• I have a company called Earl Campbell Foods. I got into the meat business in 1991.

  Earl Campbell

  Company

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• All the pre-made sauces in a jar, and frozen and canned vegetables, processed meats, and cheeses which are loaded with artificial ingredients and sodium can get in the way of a healthy diet. My number one advice is to eat fresh, and seasonally.

  Todd English

  Numbers, Vegetables, Advice

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• I never really liked meat. I was a child that had to be forced to eat my meat. Whatever you ate before that you loved like turkey slices they've got a substitute now that's not hard to find.

  Masta Killa

  Children, Turkeys, Substitutes

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• Do we, as humans, having an ability to reason and to communicate abstract ideas verbally and in writing, and to form ethical and moral judgments using the accumulated knowledge of the ages, have the right to take the lives of other sentient organisms, particularly when we are not forced to do so by hunger or dietary need, but rather do so for the somewhat frivolous reason that we like the taste of meat? In essence, should we know better?

  Peter Cheeke

  Writing, Essence, Ideas

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• I was raised on a dairy farm and ate plenty of meat and eggs until about twenty years ago. I started doing nutritional research, and a decade pr so after that my family made some major dietary changes. I'm just paying attention to what the data are telling me: The scientific evidence came first.

  T. Colin Campbell

  Years, Data, Eggs

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• Since visiting the abatoirs of S. France I have stopped eating meat.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  France, Eating, Visiting

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• A thousand years ago the Chinese had an entirely codified kitchen while the French were still gnawing on bones. Chopsticks have been around since the fourth century B.C. Forks didn't show up in England until 1611, and even then they weren't meant for eating but just to hold the meat still while you hacked at it with your knife.

  Ruth Reichl

  Years, Knives, Kitchen

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• Whatever I decide will not work.  It's what people want that will work.  So no one decided whether you become a vegetarian or anything else.  What determines that is the availability of food.  If we run out of vegetation due to floods or natural disasters, people will consume meat and if we run out of meat they will consume vegetables.  I have no control over that.  That would be up to people.

  Jacque Fresco

  Running, Vegetables, Availability

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• I never eat meat as I think it is wrong to deprive animals of their life when they are so difficult to chew anyway.

  Leonora Carrington

  Animal, Thinking, Difficult

  " Leonora Carrington once served her guests a hair omelette. My kind of woman" by Sam Leith, www.theguardian.com. June 5, 2011.

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