Meat Quotes - Page 23

• I agree insofar as we eat too much meat. We're eating about 200 pounds per person per year. That's about 9 ounces a day. That's probably more than is good for us and it's certainly more than is good for the environment.

  Michael Pollan

  Years, Too Much, Pounds

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• Any kind of food you eat is going to have an impact on the world. If you switch to tofu and get off meat, the soy bean is doing enormous damage in the Amazon and all throughout South America.

  Michael Pollan

  Impact, America, Amazon

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• There are many people who don't do well on a vegetarian or vegan diet, that for them, meat is a very nutritious food. So, I'm not prepared to give up meat. I don't think we need to give up meat, but we certainly need to change the way we raise meat and diminish the amount of it in our diet.

  Michael Pollan

  Giving Up, Thinking, People

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• The study of everything that stands connected with the death of Christ, whether it be in the types of the ceremonial law, the predictions of the prophets, the narratives of the gospels, the doctrines of the epistles, or the sublime vision of the Apocalypse, this is the food of the soul, the manna from heaven, the bread of life. This is "meat indeed" and "drink indeed."

  John Angell James

  Bread Of Life, Law, Heaven

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 69, 1895.

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• First generation Indian immigrants are mass guinea pigs. When a race that subsisted on plants for centuries subsists on a meat-dominated diet, it scares me to know what's in store for them

  Siddharth Katragadda

  Race, Pigs, Scare

  "Dark Rooms: A Saga". Book by Siddharth Katragadda, 2002.

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• The case for meat-eaters - if eating meat is a sin, then why are some plants carnivorous?

  Siddharth Katragadda

  Sin, Eating, Plant

  "Dark Rooms: A Saga". Book by Siddharth Katragadda, 2002.

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• I'm a vegan. But, no one believes it because when you're out in the field, most of your meal options involve meat with a side of something fried. I've learned how to be creative and improvise and can eat anywhere - even a steak house or a gas station.

  Nicole Lapin

  Believe, Steak House, Creative

  "Woman of Power". Interview with 944 Magazine, November 2007.

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• I've always wanted to hunt another human being for sport, even though I know his fear will taint the taste of the meat.

  Catherine Zeta-Jones

  Sports, Taste, Hunts

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• Ostrich is a very lean meat. Bison is a very lean meat. Chicken is a very lean meat. Notice something about my favorite meats?

  Arlo Guthrie

  Ostriches, Bison, My Favorite

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• Meat is a big deal in my life. I do love breakfast food, but I don't think that's extraordinary. I'm a normal American. We love eggs and meat and potatoes and gravy.

  Nick Offerman

  Thinking, Breakfast Food, Eggs

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• I didn't grow up eating meat - I was a vegetarian until I was 18.

  Daphne Oz

  Growing Up, Vegetarian, Eating

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• Keeping some calorie-dense food in your diet-whether it is meat, pasta, beer, or cake-allows you to reach satiety more quickly and easily. And this will keep you from feeling deprived.

  Mark Bittman

  Beer, Cake, Feelings

  Mark Bittman (2008). “Food Matters: A Guide to Conscious Eating with More Than 75 Recipes”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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• Chefs don't actually say 'That's a spicy meat-a-ball,' except to indicate that there's a bomb threat in the restaurant without alarming the customers. Terrorism is the spiciest meatball there is.

  Mario Batali

  Bombs, Balls, Chef

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• Stock up your pantry and your freezer with things that aren't perishable: Your favorite jar of tomato sauce that lists "tomato" as the first ingredient, lots of grains, olive oils, vinegars, tomato pastes, onions, shallots. When you go to the store, you only have to pick up meats and produce.

  Giada De Laurentiis

  Oil, Tomatoes, Onions

  "Giada De Laurentiis' Slim-Cooking Secrets". Interview with Alison Prato, www.health.com. February 04, 2013.

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• For books are as meats and viands are; some of good, some of evil sub-stance.

  John Milton

  Book, Evil, Stance

  John Milton (1859). “The prose works of John Milton”, p.173

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• People have their cultural reasons for eating meat, their traditional reasons, their likes and dislikes.

  Suzy Amis

  Likes And Dislikes, People, Eating

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• I started reading and learned that we don't need any of it - meat, dairy products. We get everything we need without those things - except maybe B12, but there's this whole controversy that maybe we're only getting B12 because the animals are being fed B12 supplements.

  Ginnifer Goodwin

  Reading, Animal, Needs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I did enjoy cooking, I still do really enjoy cooking - I make a nice salmon dish, and Im a huge meat freak, so I love to bang a few steaks on the grill or pasta. Anything Italian, really.

  Luke Pasqualino

  Nice, Italian, Cooking

  "Discovery: Luke Pasqualino" by Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 12, 2012.

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• There isn't anything I don't eat, although I'm not too keen on creepy crawly things. Other than that, I'm quite adventurous. I like all types of red meat, and I'm not a fussy eater at all.

  Cherie Lunghi

  Creepy, Red, Adventurous

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• There is not such a mighty difference as some men imagine between the poor and the rich; in pomp, show, and opinion, there is a great deal, but little as to the pleasures and satisfactions of life. They enjoy the same earth and air and heavens; hunger and thirst make the poor man's meat and drink as pleasant and relishing as all the varieties which cover the rich man's table; and the labor of a poor man is more healthful, and many times more pleasant, too, than the ease and softness of the rich.

  Thomas Sherlock

  Men, Differences, Air

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 454, 1895.

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• It seems hopeless, hopeless. Those who eat meat [at public expense] are a mean, selfish lot, and so the country is doomed. Our only hope lies in the grass-roots folk who eat our traditional food.

  Yoshida Shoin

  Country, Selfish, Lying

  "Yoshida Shoin Zenshu" by Yoshida Shoin, vol. VI, 1938.

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• Domesticity was meat and drink to Mouse, and she liked taking care of people. She had done it for so long that it had become a habit with her.

  Helen Kieran Reilly

  Long, People, Done

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• My grandmother would croon over every scrap of meat on a sparerib like a medieval relic hunter musing on the knucklebone of a saint.

  Rose Quiello

  Grandmother, Hunters, Saint

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• When you just arrive in L.A., you are in a great position, as you are fresh meat, and people will meet you and give you a chance.

  Judi Shekoni

  People, Giving, Chance

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• Heaped on the floor were turkeys, geese, game, poultry, brawn, great joints of meat, sucking pigs, long wreaths of sausages, mince-pies, plum-puddings, bartrels of oysters, re-hot chestnuts, cherry-cheeked apples, juicy oranges, luscious pears, immense twelfth-cakes, and seething bowls of punch that made the chamber dim with their delicious steam.

  Charles Dickens

  Oysters, Turkeys, Games

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