Meat Quotes

• Were the walls of our meat industry to become transparent, literally or even figuratively, we would not long continue to raise, kill, and eat animals the way we do.

  Michael Pollan

  Wall, Animal, Meat Industry

  Michael Pollan (2009). “The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World”, p.169, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The way you cut your meat reflects the way you live.

  Confucius

  Food, Cutting, Cooking

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• From cheesecake on a stick to meat skewers to deep-fried bananas on a stick - there are no plates anymore. In Los Angeles, everything has become a corn dog. Actually, corn dogs still work. But most other food should be stickless.

  Steve Carell

  Dog, Sticks, Corn

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• Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Food, Cutting, Vegetables

  Fran Lebowitz (2003). “Metropolitan Life/Social Studies”, Steidl / Edition7L

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• We’ll meet the meat.

  Douglas Adams

  Douglas Adams (2009). “The Restaurant at the End of the Universe”, p.74, Pan Macmillan

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• I became a vegetarian at 15. I was always an animal lover and, as a teenager, became increasingly uncomfortable with the idea of eating meat. It was then that I started to research vegetarianism.

  Laura Mennell

  Teenager, Animal, Vegetarianism

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• They claim red meat is bad for you. But I never saw a sick-looking tiger.

  Chi Chi Rodriguez

  Sick, Red, Saws

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• The weak are meat the strong do eat.

  David Mitchell

  Strong, Weak

  David Mitchell (2012). “Cloud Atlas (Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition): A Novel”, p.501, Random House Group

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• No matter how tough the meat may be, it's going to be tender if you slice it thin enough.

  Guy Fieri

  May, Matter, Tough

  "Save on a Memorial Day party, Guy Fieri-style" by Candice Choi, www.today.com. May 19, 2011.

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

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Kindness, Compassion

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• I have known many meat eaters to be far more nonviolent than vegetarians.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Food, Cooking, Vegetarian

  Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.84, New Directions Publishing

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• A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Time, Men

  'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 2, sc. 3, l. [258]

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• It's more useful to have knowledge about cuts of meat than a lot of money.

  Jacques Pepin

  Cutting, Lots Of Money

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• I eat meat, the rarer the better.

  Dominique Swain

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

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• Red meat is not bad for you. Now blue-green meat, that's bad for you!

  Chi Chi Rodriguez

  Funny, Food, Health

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• To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Food, Cooking, Cheese

  Anthony Bourdain (2011). “Tony Bourdain boxset: Kitchen Confidential & Medium Raw”, p.65, A&C Black

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• Meat eaten without either mirth or music is ill of digestion.

  Walter Scott

  Mirth, Digestion, Music Is

  Walter Scott (1875). “Waverley Novels: The monastery”, p.251

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• Recognize meat for what it really is: the antibiotic- and pesticide-laden corpse of a tortured animal.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Food, Animal, Vegetarianism

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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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• I would make a poor vegetarian because I adore meat.

  Britt Ekland

  Vegetarian, Poor, Adore

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• All normal people love meat. If I went to a barbeque and there was no meat, I would say 'Yo Goober! Where's the meat?'. I'm trying to impress people here Lisa. You don't win friends with salad.

  Dan Castellaneta

  Winning, Vegetarianism, People

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• I do not see any reason why animals should be slaughtered to serve as human diet when there are so many substitutes. After all, man can live without meat.

  Dalai Lama

  Men, Animal, Vegetarian Diet

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• I shall become, I shall become a collector of me. And put meat on my soul.

  Sonia Sanchez

  Soul, Collectors, My Soul

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• Anger's my meat. I sup upon myself,
  And so shall starve with feeding.

  William Shakespeare

  Anger, Eating, Feeding

  1608 Volumnia. Coriolanus, act 4, sc.2, l.53-4.

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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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