Meat Quotes - Page 29

• I run into a lot of people who are instantly filled with ridicule at the idea that someone wouldn't eat meat.

  Moby

  Running, Ideas, People

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• I don't eat any red meat.

  Taylor Momsen

  Red, Red Meat

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• I have been heartbroken once and it has affected all my relationships from there on. But now I look at it as a occupational hazard. If you are in the meat market at some point you are gonna get mad cows disease.

  Dominic Monaghan

  Heartbroken, Mad Cow Disease, Hazards

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

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• Going meat-free can make a huge difference. Studies show that vegetarians are, on average, 10 to 20 pounds lighter than meat-eaters and that a vegetarian diet reduces our risk of heart disease by 40 percent and adds seven or more years to our lifespan.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Heart, Vegetarian Diet, Average

  "The Skinny on our Growing Girth" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. Sptember 26,2009.

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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, Looks

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• Being asked to support humane meat means being asked to support the suffering of animals in transport, to approve of treatment that causes them palpable fear, their bodies shaking and their eyes wide as saucers, as they are slung by their legs into crates that are slammed onto the back of a truck.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Mean, Eye, Animal

  "Let’s Face It: There Is No Such Thing as Humane Meat" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 26, 2013.

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• Cheap meat is the problem. The answer is to replace meat recipes with vegan meals.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Meals, Answers, Recipes

  "Here’s a Recipe for Roast Chicken Everyone Should Find Objectionable" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 23, 2012.

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• Every time we consume meat, eggs or dairy foods, we contribute to ecological devastation and the wasteful misuse of resources on a global scale.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Eggs, Devastation, Misuse

  "You Can’t Be a Meat-Eating Environmentalist" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 22, 2010.

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• Ninety-five percent of the eggs produced in America come from factory-farmed birds. Even if free-range farms were hugely more humane, the sheer number of animals raised to satisfy people's desire for eggs, meat, and milk makes it impossible for us to raise them all on small, free-range farms.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Animal, Numbers, America

  "Buyer Beware! The Lowdown on ‘Humane’ Meat and Eggs" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 10, 2012.

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• I have been known to go to the grocery store and just buy pepperoni. There's just something fantastic about salty, fatty meats.

  Rachel Nichols

  Fantastic, Stores, Groceries

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• I knew I was dog meat. Luckily, I'm the high-priced dog meat that everybody wants. I'm the good-quality dog meat. I'm the Alpo of the NBA.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Funny, Basketball, Dog

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• The headline is the 'ticket on the meat.' Use it to flag down readers who are prospects for the kind of product you are advertising.

  David Ogilvy

  Perspective, Flags, Use

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• I don't eat red meat, but sometimes a man needs a steak.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Food, Men, Needs

  "The Best Lines From Gwyneth Paltrow's New Cookbook". Interview with Raphael Brion, www.eater.com. March 19, 2013.

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• For one country is different from another; its earth is different, as are its stones, wines, bread, meat, and everything that grows and thrives in a specific region.

  Paracelsus

  Country, Wine, Different

  Paracelsus, Jolande Jacobi (1951). “Selected Writings”, p.58, Princeton University Press

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• It occurred to me that I just didn't see how I could go ahead and continue to eat meat. It just seemed so... cannibalistic to me. And so, I'm a vegetarian, and I have been ever since.

  Alice Paul

  Vegetarian, Has Beens

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• When I was old enough to realize all meat was killed, I saw it as an irrational way of using our power, to take a weaker thing and mutilate it. It was like the way bullies would take control of younger kids in the schoolyard.

  River Phoenix

  Kids, Vegetarianism, Bully

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

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• I say have the night and give people the awards, but why do people want to watch people win awards? What are they getting out of it? I don't quite get it. Because they have awards all the time; there's awards for butchers, the best meat served, but they don't televise it. I don't know why they do it for films or TV programs.

  Karl Pilkington

  Night, Winning, Awards

  "Karl Pilkington On Ricky Gervais’s Golden Globe Show: I Don’t Watch Or Understand Awards". Interview with Jordan Zakarin, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 23, 2012.

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• My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.

  Natalie Portman

  Dad, Doctors, Mad

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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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• In the family sandwich, the older people and the younger ones can recognize one another as the bread. Those in the middle are, for a time, the meat.

  Anna Quindlen

  People, Sandwiches, Bread

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Living Out Loud”, p.239, Ballantine Books

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• I basically have the diet of a 19th-century Irish navy, apart from the litre of stout a day. It's meat and potatoes and bread and cheese: those are my four food groups.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Navy, Groups, Four

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• Most people see a documentary about the meat industry and then they become a vegetarian for a week.

  Jason Reitman

  Meat Industry, People, Documentaries

  "Jason Reitman grows up with young adult". Interview with Angela Watercutter, December 15, 2011.

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• I've pretty much been portrayed as every style thing you can be. After Wimbledon you are Andy Everyman, who everybody is rooting for. I think the meat and potatoes of who I am hasn't been covered yet.

  Andy Roddick

  Thinking, Who I Am, Style

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• Call me crazy - I love elk meat!

  Zoe Saldana

  Crazy, Elk, Call Me

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• A king is a thing men have made for their own sakes, for quietness sake. Just as in a family one man is appointed to buy the meat.

  John Selden

  Kings, Men, Sake

  'Table Talk' (1689) 'Of a King'

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