Meat Quotes - Page 4

• One must cook a piece of meat a thousand times before one begins to truly understand it.

  Andre Soltner

  Pieces, Cooks, Thousand

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• If you knew how meat was made, youd probably lose your lunch.

  K. D. Lang

  Vegetarianism, Lunch, Made

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• Meat is a tremendous environmental challenge. It contributes enormous amounts of greenhouse gas, especially beef eating.

  Michael Pollan

  Challenges, Environmental, Beef

  Source: indianapublicmedia.org

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• If I do eat meat, it's got to be ethical. I want to know that it lived a great life before it was killed humanely.

  Ricky Gervais

  Want, Ethical, Knows

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• Empathy, he once had decided, must be limited to herbivores or anyhow omnivores who could depart from a meat diet. Because,ultimately, the empathic gift blurred the boundaries between hunter and victim, between the successful and the defeated.

  Philip K. Dick

  Successful, Empathy, Hunters

  Philip K. Dick (2008). “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”, p.31, Ballantine Books

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• I'm your top prime cut of meat, I'm your choice, I wanna be elected.

  Alice Cooper

  Cutting, Choices, Politics

  Song: Elected

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• Passing in any crowd are secret people whose hidden response to beauty is the desire to tear it into bleeding meat.

  James Tiptree Jr.

  People, Secret, Tears

  James Tiptree, Jr. (2016). “Brightness Falls from the Air”, p.138, Hachette UK

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• The eating of meat was unknown up to the big flood, but since the flood they have put the strings and stinking juices of animal meat into our mouths, just as they threw in front of the grumbling sensual people in the desert. Jesus Christ, who appeared when the time had been fulfilled, has again joined the end with the beginning, so that it is no longer allowed for us to eat animal meat.

  St. Jerome

  Jesus, Animal, People

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• Not eating meat really keeps me trim....meat, and what's usually served with it, is a big calorie packer.

  Olivia Wilde

  Eating, Bigs, Packers

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• For innumerable reasons, Mahamati, the Bodhisattva, whose nature is compassion, is not to eat any meat.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Compassion, Vegetarianism

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• The poor man must walk to get meat for his stomach,
  the rich man to get a stomach to his meat.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Men, Rich, Poor

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.27, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• Why should not a writer be permitted to make use of the levers of fear, terror and horror because some feeble soul here and there finds it more than it can bear? Shall there be no strong meat at table because there happen to be some guests there whose stomachs are weak, or who have spoiled their own digestions?

  E. T. A. Hoffmann

  Strong, Soul, Here And There

  E. T. A. Hoffmann (2015). “The Mutual Interdependence of Things (Fantasy and Horror Classics)”, p.54, Read Books Ltd

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• If I weren't in Radiohead I'd be working at a grocery store, I'd be that creepy guy who lives in an efficiency apartment and collects salted, cured meats.

  Thom Yorke

  Guy, Creepy, Radiohead

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• Meat-eating is condemned by the Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, and Sravakas; if one devours meat out of shamelessness he will always be devoid of sense.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Meat Eating, Bodhisattva

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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

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• If man were immortal, do you realize what his meat bills would be?

  Woody Allen

  Men, Would Be, Bills

  Woody Allen (2007). “The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose”, Random House Incorporated

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• I’m sure you gathered this by now: I just do what I want. Have I made out with chicks? Hell yeah. Did I think it was awesome? Hell yeah. I wouldn’t call myself bi. Like, if I didn’t eat meat for a week, it doesn’t make me a vegetarian. So I like people, and that’s just it. I like people.

  Kesha

  Thinking, People, Want

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• My father slapped my thighs with a variety of meats until I began to cry and sulked in the corner. I later became a musician

  Thom Yorke

  Father, Musician, Cry

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• Oysters open completely when the moon is full; and when the crab sees one it throws a piece of stone or seaweed into it and the oyster cannot close again so that it serves the crab for meat. Such is the fate of him who opens his mouth too much and thereby puts himself at the mercy of the listener.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Fate, Moon, Oysters

  "The 48 Laws of Power". Book by Robert Greene ( p. 33), 2000.

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• We believe in the Three Rs - reducing the consumption of meat and other animal-based foods; refining the diet by eating products only from methods of production, transport, and slaughter that minimize pain and distress; and replacing meat and other animal-based foods in the diet with plant-based foods.

  Wayne Pacelle

  Pain, Believe, Animal

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• Seafood is simply a socially acceptable form of bush meat. We condemn Africans for hunting monkeys and mammalian and bird species from the jungle yet the developed world thinks nothing of hauling in magnificent wild creatures like swordfish, tuna, halibut, shark, and salmon for our meals. The fact is that the global slaughter of marine wildlife is simply the largest massacre of wildlife on the planet.

  Paul Watson

  Marine, Thinking, Hunting

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• Howard was almost as fond of this hall as he was of his own shop. The Brownies used it on Tuesdays, and the Women's Institute on Wednesdays. It had hosted jumble sales and Jubilee celebrations, wedding receptions and wakes, and it smelled of all of these things: of stale clothes and coffee urns, and the ghosts of home-baked cakes and meat salads; of dust and human bodies; but primarily of aged wood and stone.

  J. K. Rowling

  Coffee, Home, Dust

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• To eat meat is just a habit after we were born. In fact, we are not born to eat meat.

  Gautama Buddha

  Kindness, Humility, Facts

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• Please, try to eat a bit less meat, a bit more veggies from today. Let it become a habit gradually until not to eat meat anymore. Then, observe the changing of the body and spirit after eating veggies, fruits and grains.

  Gautama Buddha

  Kindness, Humility, Trying

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• Meat is not agreeable to the wise: it has a nauseating odor, it causes a bad reputation, it is food for the carnivorous; I say this, Mahamati, it is not to be eaten.

  Gautama Buddha

  Wise, Buddhist, Odor

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