Meat Quotes - Page 13

• You have to eat good! I eat gorgeous food. I eat sushi, I eat meat, I eat steaks. I eat more than you, I'm sure.

  Tanya Dziahileva

  Sushi, Gorgeous, Steak

  "The incredible shrinking model". Interview with Emily Nussbaum, www.theguardian.com. September 9, 2007.

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• A free man can live on fish.Independence is better than meat

  Halldór Laxness

  Men, Independence, Fishes

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• Unless we change our food choices, nothing else matters. Because it is meat that is destroying most of our forests. It is meat that pollutes the waters. It is meat that is creating disease which leads to all our money being diverted to hospitals. So, it's the first choice for anybody who wants to save the Earth.

  Maneka Gandhi

  Money, Food, Animal

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• I have been dating someone that treats my heart like it's monkey meat. I feel like a delusional, invisible person half the time so I need to learn what it's like to be treated well before it's too late for me.

  Hannah

  Heart, Dating Someone, Needs

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• I could never stop eating meat... I'm not a good person to talk about diets. If I had to only eat salads, I'd kill myself!

  Izabel Goulart

  Salad, Good Person, Eating

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• The smell of roasting meat together with that of burning fruit wood and dried herbs, as voluptuous as incense in a church, is enough to turn anyone into a budding gastronome

  Claudia Roden

  Food, Smell, Church

  Claudia Roden (1984). “Everything tastes better outdoors”, Random House Inc

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• Most people don’t question the practice of eating meat. Many of these people care about animals and the environment, some deeply. But for some reason-force of habit, cultural norms, resistance to change-there is a fundamental disconnect whereby these feelings don’t translate into changes of behavior.

  Brian Greene

  Animal, Practice, People

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• If any vegans came over for dinner, I could whip them up a salad, then
  explain my philosophy on being a carnivore: If God had not intended for
  us to eat animals, how come He made them out of meat?

  Sarah Palin

  Philosophy, Animal, Dinner

  "Sarah Palin on Animal Rights". Interview with Andrew Kirschner, kirschnerskorner.com. January 26, 2016.

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• Poems not only demand patience, they demand a kind of surrender. You must give yourself up to them. This is the real food for a poet: other poems, not meat loaf.

  Mark Strand

  Real, Giving, Demand

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• Bread is the king of the table and all else is merely the court that surrounds the king. The countries are the soup, the meat, the vegetables, the salad, but bread is king.

  Louis Bromfield

  Country, Kings, Food

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• I'm not the type of person to eat big hunks of meat. I think people are starting to realize that great things come in small batches.

  April Bloomfield

  Thinking, People, Chef

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• In my opinion, if most urban meat-eaters were to visit an industrial broiler house, to se how the birds are raised, and could see the birds being "harvested" and then being "processed" in a poultry processing plant, they would not be impressed and some, perhaps many of them would swear off eating chicken and perhaps all meat.

  Peter Cheeke

  House, Bird, Environmental

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• I didn't say the meat was tough. I said I didn't see the horse that is usually outside.

  W. C. Fields

  Horse, Food, Tough

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• I have been vegetarian for twelve years. And I have never been seriously ill. Vegetarian food strengthens the immune system. I think that meat makes you sick.

  Bryan Adams

  Thinking, Animal, Years

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• If a kid ever realized what was involved in factory farming, they would never touch meat again.

  James Cromwell

  Kids, Animal Rights, Vegetarian

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• Eating meat is the most disgusting thing I can think of. It's like biting into your grandmother.

  Steven Morrissey

  Grandmother, Thinking, Biting

  "Auction of signed copy of Morrissey's Autobiography raises £8,000 for Peta", www.theguardian.com. December 31, 2013.

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• It's never really been that hard for me. I've never had any desire to eat meat. In fact, when I was a kid I would have a really difficult time eating meat at all.

  Tobey Maguire

  Kids, Desire, Facts

  "Has Britney found yet another rehab romance?" by Jeannette Walls, www.today.com. April 05, 2007.

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• You either approve of violence or you don't, and nothing on earth is more violent or extreme than the meat industry.

  Steven Morrissey

  Meat Industry, Earth, Violence

  "Autobiography" by Steven Morrissey, London: Penguin Classics, 2013.

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• One of George Washington's main concerns was to make sure that his soldiers had adequate supplies of meat: A part of the army has been a week without any kind of flesh, and the rest three or four days. Naked and starving as they are, we cannot enough admire the incomparable patience and fidelity of the soldiery, that they have not been ere this excited by their suffering to a general mutiny and dispersion.

  George Washington

  Kindness, Army, Soldier

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• Give up, renounce the world. Now we are like dogs strayed into a kitchen and eating a piece of meat, looking round in fear lest at any moment some one may come and drive them out. Instead of that, be a king and know you own the world. This never comes until you give it up and it ceases to bind. Give up mentally, if you do not physically. Give up from the heart of your hearts

  Swami Vivekananda

  Dog, Kings, Giving Up

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Personality Development”, p.23, Advaita Ashrama

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• A gluten-free diet still allows you access to almost every fruit and vegetable, a variety of grains and legumes, your pick of dairy products, fresh meats and fish and a whole slew of special gluten-free delights to satisfy your pretzel-bagel-muffin-doughnut craving.

  Daphne Oz

  Vegetables, Special, Fruit

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• The main point for me is moral; animals are sentient beings. I know for some this is a hard argument to accept, but we're not built to eat a lot of meat.

  Grace Slick

  Animal, Moral, Argument

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• Shepherds don't look after sheep because they love them - although I do think some shepherds like their sheep too much. They look after their sheep so they can, first, fleece them and second, turn them into meat. That's much more like the priesthood as I know it.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Thinking, Sheep, Shepherds

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• If you focus on only the seeds in a watermelon, you missed the sweetness of the meat

  Wally Amos

  Focus, Sweetness, Seeds

  Wally Amos, Stu Glauberman (2011). “Watermelon Magic: Seeds Of Wisdom, Slices Of Life”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

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• Cows eat grass and silage. This is melting the ice caps and killing us all. So they need a new foodstuff: something that is rich in iron, calcium and natural goodness. Plainly they cannot eat meat so here is an idea to chew on. Why not feed them vegetarians?

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Ice, Ideas, Iron

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