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• I deserved kisses. I deserved to be treated like a piece of meat but also respected for my intellect.

  Lena Dunham

  Kissing, Pieces, Intellect

  Lena Dunham (2014). “Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"”, p.33, Random House

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• It was 100,000 years before we figured out what to do with fire. Imagine cavemen, sitting in front of a fire, eating raw meat for 100 thousand years.

  Julian Casablancas

  Years, Fire, Sitting

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• All life is a blur of Republicans and meat.

  Bill Griffith

  Republican, Life Is, Blur

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• Among the earliest forms of human self-awareness was the awareness of being meat.

  David Quammen

  Self, Being Me, Awareness

  David Quammen (2004). “Monster of God: The Man-Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind”, p.3, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Here we grow the flax and grain; here we raise the meat they eat, and the wool to keep them warm; we cut trees to build their houses and firewood to heat their stoves.

  Ernest Poole

  Cutting, Tree, House

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• Meat-eaters make every day a 9/11 for animals in slaughterhouses.

  Unknown

  Animal, Slaughterhouses

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• To speak only of food inspections: the United States currently imports 80% of its seafood, 32% of its fruits and nuts, 13% of its vegetables, and 10% of its meats. In 2007, these foods arrived in 25,000 shipments a day from about 100 countries. The FDA was able to inspect about 1% of these shipments, down from 8% in 1992. In contrast, the USDA is able to inspect 16% of the foods under its purview. By one assessment, the FDA has become so short-staffed that it would take the agency 1,900 years to inspect every foreign plant that exports food to the United States.

  Marion Nestle

  Country, Fda, Agency

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• Food safety oversight is largely, but not exclusively, divided between two agencies, the FDA and the USDA. The USDA mostly oversees meat and poultry; the FDA mostly handles everything else, including pet food and animal feed. Although this division of responsibility means that the FDA is responsible for 80% of the food supply, it only gets 20% of the federal budget for this purpose. In contrast, the USDA gets 80% of the budget for 20% of the foods. This uneven distribution is the result of a little history and a lot of politics.

  Marion Nestle

  Mean, Responsibility, Animal

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• If you like eating meat but want to eat ethically, this is the book for you. From the hard-headed, clear-eyed, and sympathetic perspective of butchers who care deeply about the animals whose parts they sell, the customers who buy their meats, and the pleasures of eating, this book has much to teach. It’s an instant classic, making it clear why meat is part of the food revolution. I see it as the new Bible of meat aficionados and worth reading by all food lovers, meat-eating and not.

  Marion Nestle

  Reading, Book, Animal

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• I really wanted to believe that there were these magic celestial bodies that would direct my life, tell me what to do, and it turns out it's not stars, it's some bits of screwy DNA. I'm just meat with faulty programming.

  Lauren Beukes

  Stars, Believe, Dna

  Lauren Beukes (2010). “Zoo City”, p.150, Jacana Media

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• Don't take a butcher's advice on how to cook meat. If he knew, he'd be a chef.

  Andy Rooney

  Food, Advice, Cooking

  Andrew A. Rooney (2010). “Andy Rooney: 60 Years of Wisdom and Wit”, p.265, PublicAffairs

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• Christ is the meat, the bread, the food of our souls. Nothing is in him of a higher spiritual nourishment than his love, which we should always desire.

  John Owen

  Spiritual, Soul, Desire

  JOHN OWEN, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “THE GLORY OF CHRIST”, Lulu.com

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• Meatless Mondays is a dead-simple strategy. Anyone can do it, and it doesn’t require major sacrifice. Even if you eat a typical American diet replete with processed, junk and fast food the other six days of the week, going meatless on Mondays will still cut your carbon footprint, improve your health and reduce demand for factory-farm meat.

  Mark Bittman

  Monday, Sacrifice, Cutting

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• Babies cannot eat meat but some adults like milk.

  J. Vernon McGee

  Baby, Adults, Milk

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• The Chinese people have only family and clan solidarity; they do not have national spirit...they are just a heap of loose sand...Other men are the carving knife and serving dish; we are the fish and the meat.

  Sun Yat-sen

  Men, Knives, People

  "China as a Heap of Loose Sand" (1924)

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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 meat. I'd barbecue it before I put it on

  Cody Simpson

  Barbecue

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• We got hooked on grain-fed meat just as we got hooked on gas guzzling automobiles. Big cars made sense only when oil was cheap; grain-fed meat makes sense only because the true costs of producing it are not counted.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Oil, Car, Cost

  "Diet for a Small Planet". Book by Frances Moore Lappé, 1971.

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• There, I was just a secretary-shaped confederation of atoms, fighting the inevitability of mediocrity and decay. But here, in the Juliaverse... energy was never lost, merely converted from one form to another. Here, I took butter and cream and meat and eggs and I made delicious sustenance.

  Julie Powell

  Fighting, Eggs, Atoms

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• People are essentially red meat. They are.

  Max Cannon

  People, Red Lipstick, Red

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• The most important part of vegetarianism is the real shift in consciousness that takes place. There is a true correlation between our food choices and violence in the world. The only person who would disagree with that is a meat-eater

  Peter Burwash

  Real, Vegetarianism, Choices

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• The less the consumer knows about what's happening before the meat hits the plate, the better.

  Peter Cheeke

  Plates, Consumers, Knows

  "Contemporary Issues in Animal Agriculture". Book by Peter Cheeke, 1993.

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• Prayer never brought in no side-meat. Takes a shoat to bring in pork.

  John Steinbeck

  Prayer, Pork, Sides

  John Steinbeck (2016). “The Grapes of Wrath”, p.201, Hamilton Books

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• The Cistercians do not eat meat... Yet they keep pigs to the number of many thousands, and sell the bacon - though perhaps not quite all of it. The heads, legs, and feet they neither give away, throw away, nor sell. What becomes of them God knows.

  Walter Map

  Pigs, Feet, Numbers

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• The people of the future will say, 'meat-eaters!' in disgust and regard us in the same way that we regard cannibals and cannibalism.

  Dennis Weaver

  Vegetarianism, People, Way

  "The vegetarians". Book by Rynn Berry, p. 64, 1979.

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