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• My view is that we stand up for treating the animals in a considerate way, for completely renouncing the eating of meat and also for speaking out against it. This is what I do myself. And in this way many a one becomes aware of a problem that was put forward so late.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Animal, Views, Way

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• Without guilt / What is a man? An animal, isn't he? / A wolf forgiven at his meat, / A beetle innocent in his copulation.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Animal, Men, Guilt

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• Pity is for this life, pity is the worm inside the meat, pity is the meat, pity is the shaking pencil, pity is the shaking voice-- not enough money, not enough love--pity for all of us--it is our grace, walking down the ramp or on the moving sidewalk, sitting in a chair, reading the paper, pity, turning a leaf to the light, arranging a thorn.

  Jane Austen

  Moving, Reading, Voice

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• That which chiefly causes the failure of a dinner-party, is the running short--not of meat, nor yet of drink, but of conversation.

  Lewis Carroll

  Running, Party, Dinner

  Lewis Carroll (2015). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Other Tales”, p.438, Race Point Pub

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• I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry and unhappy like we do. I feel very deeply about vegetarianism and the animal kingdom. It was my dog Boycott who led me to question the right of humans to eat other sentient beings.

  Cesar Chavez

  Inspiring, Dog, Food

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• Eating too much meat gives you indigestion and evil thoughts make you eat too much meat.

  Gertrude Stein

  Evil, Giving, Too Much

  Gertrude Stein (2013). “Wars I Have Seen”, p.92, Random House

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• Tis not the meat, but 'tis the appetite makes eating a delight.

  John Suckling

  Food, Delight, Eating

  c.1638 Sonnet no.2.

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• Health and appetite impart the sweetness to sugar, bread and meat.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Health, Sugar, Bread

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.166, Harvard University Press

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• A vegan riding a hummer contributes less to greenhouse gas emissions than a meat eater riding a bicycle.

  Paul Watson

  Riding, Vegan, Gas

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• Please eat less meat - meat is a very carbon-intensive commodity.

  Rajendra K. Pachauri

  Commodity, Climate Change, Carbon

  "Taking the Food Crisis Personally" by Bruce Friedrich, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 20, 2008.

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• What is meat for one is not for another--no accounting for fancy.

  Abigail Adams

  Fancy, Accounting

  John Adams, Abigail Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1970). “Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution: With a Memoir of Mrs. Adams”, Ayer Company Pub

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• Cooking meat over a fire is one of the most stirring of those ritual acts, usually performed outdoors, on special occasions, in public, and by men.

  Michael Pollan

  Men, Fire, Cooking

  Michael Pollan (2013). “Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation”, p.38, Penguin

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• Our food system takes abundant grain,which people can't afford,and shrinks it into meat,which better-off people will pay for.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Vegetarianism, People, Pay

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• I love to smoke. I love to eat red meat. I'll only eat red meat that comes from cows who smoke, ok!? Special cows they grow in Virginia with voice boxes in their necks. "Moo"

  Denis Leary

  Funny, Virginia, Voice

  Song: Meat

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• I am Tarzan of the Apes. I want you. I am yours. You are mine. We live here together always in my house. I will bring you the best of fruits, the tenderest deer, the finest meats that roam the jungle. I will hunt for you. I am the greatest of the jungle fighters. I will fight for you. I am the mightiest of the jungle fighters. You are Jane Porter, I saw it in your letter. When you see this you will know that it is for you and that Tarzan of the Apes loves you.

  Edgar Rice Burroughs

  Love You, Fighting, House

  Edgar Rice Burroughs (2015). “EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS Ultimate Collection: 30+ Adventure Novels & Science Fiction Classics (Illustrated): The Tarzan Series, The Barsoom Series, The Pelucidar Series, Caspak Trilogy, The Mucker Trilogy, Lost World Novels, Fantastic Stories, Historical Novels and more”, p.122, e-artnow

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• On going vegetarian." I was sitting here eating my plate of chicken salad, and suddenly I looked down and saw all the meat on my plate and just wasn't hungry anymore. So i've decided I'm not going to eat meat."

  Shiri Appleby

  Sitting, Down And, Salad

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• I have one last request. Don't use embalming fluid on me; I want to be stuffed with crab meat.

  Woody Allen

  Use, Want, Lasts

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• An instant-read thermometer is your best bet for making sure that meat and fish are cooked to the proper temperature.

  Bobby Flay

  Temperature, Thermometers, Instant

  Bobby Flay (2010). “Bobby Flay's Grill It!”, p.21, Clarkson Potter

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• You can do anything with beer that you can do with wine. Beer is great for basting or marinating meat and fish.

  Grant Wood

  Wine, Beer, Fish Tanks

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• Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.

  Jonathan Swift

  Wise, Cat, Men

  Jonathan Swift (1861). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Copious Notes and Additions, and a Memoir of the Author”, p.80

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• It's upsetting to me that so many people think of themselves as environmentalists and still eat meat and dairy products. I think it's something people should be considering given the emergency situation we're in regarding water supplies, global warming, and the destruction of ecosystems. There's a lot of overlap between animal rights and the environment.

  Emily Deschanel

  Animal, Thinking, Rights

  "One on One with Emily Deschanel". Interview with Ligaya Figueras, www.vegetariantimes.com. October 1, 2010.

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• The meat of the buffalo tastes the same on both sides of the border.

  Sitting Bull

  Borders, Buffalo, Taste

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• Melancholy had crept inside me. Small children made me cry, I got depressed eating meat, old book bindings awakened tenderness in me. Everything was disintegrating. Nothing stood the test of time, including me. Somewhere on the other shore were madness and God, sometimes both wearing a beard. Neither instilled much confidence.

  Mati Unt

  Depression, Children, Book

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• I'm a vegetarian. You're a what? I don't eat meat. How can you not eat meat? I just don't. He says he does not eat meat. What? No meat? No meat. Steak? No... Chickens! No... And what about the sausage? No, no sausage, no meat! He says he does not eat any meat. Not even sausage? I know! What is wrong with him? What is wrong with you? Nothing, I just don't eat meat!

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Doe, Sausage, Vegetarian

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• In the Scriptures be the fat pastures of the soul; therein is no venomous meat, no unwholesome thing; they be the very dainty and pure feeding. He that is ignorant, shall find there what he should learn.

  Thomas Cranmer

  Soul, Ignorant, Scripture

  Thomas Cranmer, Henry Jenkyns (1833). “The Remains of Thomas Cranmer”, p.111

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