Meatpacking Quotes

#1. A mere four giant meatpacking companies (Tyson subsidiary IBP, Cargill subsidiary Excel, Swift & Company, and National) now slaughter and market four of every five beef cattle born in this country

Michael Pollan

#2. I spent thirty-two years in a paper mill in southern Ohio, and before that, I worked in a meatpacking plant and a shoe factory.

Donald Ray Pollock

#3. I'm opening a store at the end of the month in the New York meatpacking district. I'm launching a line of bedding this summer, and I am writing a book that will be out next January.

Genevieve Gorder

#4. I think the men in L.A. are very rugged, good-looking. Men in New York look metro with their manis and pedis and their Bruno Magli loafers, but inside they're very masculine - aside from the Meatpacking District. The problem is the men in New York are five to one: five women to one man.

Patti Stanger

#5. The paradigm of the development of natural resource-based industry - meatpacking, lard, timber, iron and coal, grain. Cincinnati's lard processing plants looked a lot like JDR's oil refineries thirty years later.

Charles R. Morris

#6. Today the U.S. government can demand the nation-wide recall of defective softball bats, sneakers, stuffed animals, and foam-rubber toy cows. But it cannot order a meatpacking company to remove contaminated, potentially lethal ground beef from fast food kitchens and supermarket shelves.

Eric Schlosser

#7. Music is, to me, proof of the existence of God. It is so extraordinarily full of magic, and in tough times of my life I can listen to music and it makes such a difference.

Kurt Vonnegut

#8. Every day between now and his slaughter in six months, 534 [Pollan's steer] will convert 32 pounds of feed into four pounds of gain- new muscle, fat, and bone.

Michael Pollan

#9. I think we've all got a mirror man in our life - male, female, it's someone who love themselves before they can love anyone else.

Ella Henderson

#10. The ratio of feed to flesh in chicken, the most efficient animal by this measure, is two pounds of corn to one of meat, which is why chicken costs less than beef.

Michael Pollan

#11. -You shouldn't be here, You should be home with Kathy.
-Kathy knows where I am. She's worried about you.I'm going to be here until they kick me out and then i'll be back in the morning. ~Carlos & Maddie

Bernadette Marie

#12. Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.

William Butler Yeats

#13. Isn't that what a good story does? It pulls you in and never lets you go.

Jennifer Donnelly

#14. What is real and what is not is for your heart to decide and for your heart to know.

Colleen Houck

#15. My faith guides my life.

Kay Hagan

#16. It was the same industrial logic- protein is protein- that made feeding rendered cow parts back to cows seem like a sensible thing to do, until scientists figured out that this practice was spreading BSE [mad cow disease].

Michael Pollan

#17. What gets a steer from 80 to 1100 pounds in fourteen months is tremendous quantities of corn, protein and fat supplements, and an arsenal of new drugs.

Michael Pollan

#18. I can't feel too sorry for them. Every gift has to run out someday. Anyone but a child knows that.

J.Z. Colby

#19. Failure to shed tears is a failure to live life fully. And the one thing that life requires of us all is to live it. Never be embarrassed by your ability to be alive.

Amy Neftzger

#20. I wish all the sorcerers in the world had just one throat," Angela announced. "So I could punch them in it.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#21. There is plenty of time to sleep in the grave

William Shakespeare

#22. I wasn't the biggest, the fastest, the strongest, and then I bought into something called work ethic.

Ray Lewis

#23. Men are essentially useless for the difficult things in life. For births and deaths, one clearheaded woman is more useful than a half-dozen men.

Laura Bickle

#24. Men make clothes for the women they'd like to be with or in most cases the women they'd like to be.

Robert Altman