Top 100 Quotes About Meat
#1. Going meat-free can make a huge difference. Studies show that vegetarians are, on average, 10 to 20 pounds lighter than meat-eaters and that a vegetarian diet reduces our risk of heart disease by 40 percent and adds seven or more years to our lifespan.
Ingrid Newkirk
#2. 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
#3. But vegetarians can eat this ... Because intestines aren't even meat, Liz. They're just sh$*.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#5. Those who purify your water, inspect your meat, and test your kids' toys, as well as a huge number of nurses, teachers, and our soldiers, are public employees. The firefighters who don't hesitate to rush toward danger while you run away from it - they are all public employees.
Jennifer Granholm
#6. Meat is a tremendous environmental challenge. It contributes enormous amounts of greenhouse gas, especially beef eating.
Michael Pollan
#7. I ran through the store gathering together some basic foods. Bread, cheese, Tastykakes, peanut butter, cereal, milk, Tastykakes, eggs, frozen pizza, Tastykakes, orange juice, apples, lunch meat, and Tastykakes.
Janet Evanovich
#8. I only eat meat if I go to a nice restaurant and there is an exceptional dish, or if I'm at somebody's home for a dinner, I'll eat whatever is in front of me. Otherwise, I don't eat anything that walks around and has a face.
Bryan Fuller
#9. Since visiting the abatoirs of S. France I have stopped eating meat.
Vincent Van Gogh
#10. Our conventional response to all media, namely that it is how they are used that counts, is the numb stance of the technological idiot," he wrote. The content of the medium is just "the juicy piece of meat carried by the burglar to distract the watchdog of the mind." P 4
Nicholas Carr
#11. New Yorkers hustled past in every direction, somehow managing not to run smack into one another. A dozen scents hit her at once. Car exhaust, meat being grilled by a sidewalk vendor, and was that...a slight hint of urine?
Tessa Bailey
#12. I'm so bored. I went to the food locker yesterday to visit my meat.
Erma Bombeck
#13. Anger's my meat; I sup upon myself, And so shall starve with feeding. Volumnia says this in Shakespeare's Coriolanus. She - steely, controlling - is far more interesting than Coriolanus. Alas, nobody would go to see a play called Volumnia.
Lauren Groff
#14. Teach the child to respect that which is not respectable and you teach the child the first requirement of slavery: submission to unjust authority. Children are persons. They are small persons whose perfect souls have not yet been ground through the meat grinder of slavery.
Gerry Spence
#15. If you think humans are meat-eaters then try eating the animal raw like every other meat-eater on the planet. If something is not palatable in its raw state then you probably shouldn't be eating it.
David Wolfe
#16. Lambs and rabbits; Claude buckles the meat into
Anthony Doerr
#17. A free man can live on fish.Independence is better than meat
Halldor Laxness
#18. You get thought of in terms of your last job. So if my last job is that of a meat cleaver-wielding character, I will hardly be cast as some benign, older gentleman.
Ben Cross
#19. I know what death smells like. Death smells like gasoline, singed hair and fingernails.
It smells like cooking meat. My meat.
Rasmenia Massoud
#20. I was a pop freak. I love music. Of course, I knew soul because I grew up in it. Writing it and everything. I love soul. But I love a tune that has some meat in it. Something I could hang my hat on. Because music is universal. Therefore, I felt no boundaries.
Isaac Hayes
#21. My dad was a musician, it was just what he did, like another guy's dad drives a meat truck. Our house was normal. We weren't taken with the fact our dad was a musician.
Branford Marsalis
#22. By eating meat we share the responsibility of climate change, the destruction of our forests, and the poisoning of our air and water. The simple act of becoming a vegetarian will make a difference in the health of our planet.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#24. In fact, the first experiments in refrigeration were not with fish or meat but with everyone's favorite luxury - butter.
Mark Kurlansky
#25. I love, love, love the street-cart food. Gyros are like a meat-flavored fruit roll-up. A meat roll-up.
Kumail Nanjiani
#26. Meat and poultry is safe. It's safer than it's probably ever been.
Dan Glickman
#27. So he had sunk to the state of a beast that licks his chaps after meat.
James Joyce
#28. PETA is such an important cause to me. The mistreatment of animals is something that just really gets me. I feel it's really the most important part of what I do. Don't Eat Meat! Don't Wear Fur! I mean, there are so many other options these days.
Pamela Anderson
#29. She never laughs or smiles or tells a joke. She reminds me of a robot caked in meat.
Matthew Quick
#30. Not too bad, reminds me of some kind of meat dip, best if you close your eyes and pretend it's something else.
Patricia Hamill
#31. Now that he was navigating, his celestial mood was shattered. Wild, animal thirst for life, mixed with homesick longing for the free airs and the sights and smells of earth-for grass and meat and beer and tea and the human voice-awoke in him.
C.S. Lewis
#32. I've never been crazy when it comes to controlling my diet. I just avoid processed foods, don't mix carbs and make sure I get my protein. I'm a carnivore. I love my wild game and especially my buffalo meat.
Diego Sanchez
#33. My eating is pretty consistent. I like Greek yogurt for breakfast. I eat two giant salads a day, a broiled meat or fish, and a dark green vegetable at every meal.
Veronica Webb
#34. Hey dickhead, you should know something. You attack my brother, you really piss me off. (Vane)
Hot damn, Daimon food. Hey Vane, you want the white meat or dark? (Fang)
How about I grab one leg, you grab the other and we make a wish and pull? (Vane)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#35. The current health crisis, however, is a little more the work of the evil empire. We were told, we were assured, that the more meat and dairy and poultry we ate, the healthier we'd be.
Mark Bittman
#36. At one point in the mid-Eighties I shared a promoter with the Smiths. One night, we were sitting backstage when Morrissey burst in, utterly distraught, sobbing his heart out. Turns out someone had thrown a sausage at him on stage during 'Meat Is Murder.'
Paul Merton
#37. Kessa began to cut her meat into tiny pieces. As a whole it was unmanageable, frightening; but divided and arranged, the meat could be controlled. She cut four pieces. She'd count to four between each bite.
Steven Levenkron
#38. One can quite understand vegetarianism. One can quite understand meat-eating. But it is difficult to understand why a person who is a flesh-eater should object to one kind of flesh, namely cow's flesh. This is an anomaly which call for explanation.
B.R. Ambedkar
#39. You want us to attack the NIA agents with frozen meat?" Digger asked, his voice trembling and his teeth chattering. He snickered. "Literally hit them over the head with our big meatsacks?
Abigail Roux
#40. No member of the animal kingdom nurses past maturity, no member of the animal kingdom ever did a thing to me. Its why I don't eat red meat or white fish, don't give me no blue cheese. Were all members of the animal kingdom, leave your brothers and sisters in the sea.
Prince
#41. Admit it, if you suddenly had magical powers, you would have turned that leftover meat loaf into pizza, too.
Wendy Mass
#42. [On her political writings:] It is, I confess, very possible that these my Labours may only be destined to line Trunks, or preserve roast Meat from too fierce a Fire; yet in that Shape I shall be useful to my Country.
Mary Wortley Montagu
#43. Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
B.C. Forbes
#44. Are you a murderer?"
"That depends, are you one of those animal activist[s] that believe meat is murder?
Tammy Blackwell
#45. Humans, no matter their Color, are fragile as doves in the meat grinder of war.
Pierce Brown
#46. In the family sandwich, the older people and the younger ones can recognize one another as the bread. Those in the middle are, for a time, the meat.
Anna Quindlen
#47. I've been a vegetarian for so long, I forgot how much I missed meat. You know you don't realize how important meat is to you until you don't have it for long time.
Brittany Daniel
#48. I'm not a big chicken or meat eater, but sometimes I'll eat it if it's locally raised. The family dinner will be stir-fry, or we'll roll our own sushi with brown rice, spinach, salmon, sesame oil, sesame seeds, and seaweed. The kids love it!
Alysia Reiner
#49. The night I was born, my great uncle Moanea, the village forester, shot a wolf. The villagers roasted it in the fire and fed the meat to the dogs.
Teodor Flonta
#50. Glass spotted another dog by the creek, and this one he did not spare. Soon he had a fire burning in the center of the hut. Part of the dog he roasted on a spit over the fire and part he boiled in the kettle. He threw corn into the pot with the dog meat and continued his search through the village.
Michael Punke
#51. 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
#52. If one of the arguments against eating meat is to do with cruelty and animal intelligence, then lab meat avoids that. There's also the environmental argument for it.
Margaret Atwood
#53. My family celebrates both the navratras that come twice in a year. We also refrain from eating meat. I just enjoy that people come home, savour the variety of snacks and participate in our puja during this time.
Ronit Roy
#54. I guess it's true what they say: it's really hard to spot someone dressed in meat, slinking along a meat wall. - Sadia: The 8th Circle of Heck
Dale E. Basye
#55. In the slaughterhouse of love, they kill only the best, none of the weak or deformed. Don't run away from this dying. Whoever's not killed for love is dead meat.
Rumi
#56. You don't give hired assassins supper, do you?" Quentin smiled. "No, but when a wolf follows your sleigh, you give it meat," he
Diana Wynne Jones
#57. How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?
Roger Waters
#58. Pronunciamento of memento is risorgimento that let slip the meat-and-potatoes.
Anyaele Sam Chiyson
#59. In Africa, we have the bush meat trade, which means that, on a very large scale, animals are being killed in the forests and sold in the cities as a luxury food.
Frans De Waal
#60. He didn't need a psychiatrist to point out that writing had its autoerotic side - you beat a typewriter instead of your meat, but both acts depended largely on quick wits, fast hands and a heartfelt commitment to the art of the farfetched.
Stephen King
#61. I had chewed a big steak two hours before, swallowing the juice and spitting out the meat, and I could smell animal blood in my sweat.
James Ellroy
#62. USDA regulations spell out precisely what sort of facility and system is permissible, but they don't set thresholds for food-borne pathogens. (That would require the USDA to recall meat from packers who failed to meet the standards, something the USDA, incredibly, lacks the authority to do.)
Michael Pollan
#63. Hana: What on Earth is a 'barbeque'? Hel: A primitive tribal ritual featuring paper plates, elbows, flying insects, encrusted meat, hush puppies, and beer. Hana: I daren't ask what a 'hush puppy' is. Hel: Don't.
Trevanian
#64. It was one thing not to want a husband, I realized; it was quite another not to need one for the roof over your head, for your meat and bread, for the shoes on your feet and the coat on your back.
Margo Lanagan
#65. Charlie didn't want to give up meat and smoking. Now he's gone.
Lesley Stahl
#66. 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
#67. I love the combination of the words 'spies' and 'Balkans.' It's like meat and potatoes.
Alan Furst
#69. I'm not completely vegan - my diet's probably about 80 percent plant based, but I do eat some meat. I try to know where everything comes from, though. And all bets are off if my husband and I go to a really great restaurant.
Lauren Bowles
#70. Recognize meat for what it really is: the antibiotic- and pesticide-laden corpse of a tortured animal.
Ingrid Newkirk
#71. You live your entire life trapped in a sack of meat, unable to enjoy simple pleasures
Rick Riordan
#72. 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
#73. What you know is a club for yourself, and what you don't know is a meat-ax for the other fellow.
George Horace Lorimer
#74. 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
#75. Tantrics seek oneness with the universe
through eating meat, drinking alcohol, taking drugs, dancing,
and ritual sexual intercourse.
Marvin Harris
#76. Tis not the meat, but 'tis the appetite makes eating a delight.
John Suckling
#77. My last supper would be a charcuterie smorgasbord with every kind of meat, and sauces to dip them in.
Kelis
#78. I was raised vegan. My mom would always make quinoa with squash and kale, hippie stuff like that. Now I eat meat, but I try to be conscious about where it's coming from.
Zoe Kravitz
#79. I believe if the viewing of slaughter was required to eat meat, most folks would become vegetarians.
Howard Lyman
#80. There's so many issues tied to the meat industry. I mean, social, environmental, humanitarian - all of them. I know that when I'm eating that I'm not hurting the planet, I'm not hurting other people on this planet, I'm not hurting animals ... and I'm not hurting nature.
Maggie Q
#81. Whether you eat meat of not, you can be part of this decision to limit the meat industry destroying our planet's resources.
Stella McCartney
#82. What is meat for one is not for another
no accounting for fancy.
Abigail Adams
#83. Troll sat alone on his seat of stone, And munched and mumbled a bare old bone; For many a year he had gnawed it near, For meat was hard to come by. Done by! Gum by! In a cave in the hills he dwelt alone, And meat was hard to come by.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#84. They were Siamese twins, joined at the groin by a traitorous piece of meat.
Nancy A. Collins
#85. One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called 'weasel words.' When a weasel sucks eggs the meat is sucked out of the egg. If you use a 'weasel word' after another there is nothing left of the other.
Theodore Roosevelt
#86. My poor little New Zealand: exporting frozen meat in peace, live meat in war.
Big James Henderson
#87. She chewed the tender meat and sucked out the juices and felt the sauce coat her tongue and roll down her throat. After that, he looked still better. Another
Jane Smiley
#88. When I stopped eating meat, I noticed that it was easier for me to focus, and I was really proud of myself for being green also ... I had a plethora of reasons for going vegetarian.
Christian Serratos
#89. Vegetarianism can easily reach religious proportions. Refraining from meat on moral grounds serves to dignify feelings of guilt toward sad-eyed, furry creatures and substitutes righteousness for squeamishness.
Bill Griffith
#90. When we consume vastly more protein than we need, our kidneys struggle to process it, resulting in protein in the urine. Too much protein from meat may also contribute to kidney stones.
Bee Wilson
#91. Heaven sends us good meat, but the Devil sends cooks.
David Garrick
#92. People really in the meat grinder of the front lines are not, for the most part, insured or salaried network correspondents. They're young freelancers. They're kind of a cheap date for the news industry.
Sebastian Junger
#93. A wise man does not step betwixt the beast and his meat
David Mitchell
#94. Pulling back, like a savage carnivore at its prey, it tore a large chunk of meat rendering his left arm useless...regardless he did not require it for long.
Stacy Buck
#96. Food from Quebec is not known to be amazing. Actually, even though you can eat really, really well in Montreal, it's crazy. It's one of the best cities I eat in, but typical Quebec food is like food from people that work in the woods. It's potatoes, meat and sauce.
Charlotte Le Bon
#97. I've always been a monster,' Scapegrace told her, 'but now, finally, my physical for reflects my inner darkness.'
'You smell terrible.'
'That's the smell of evil.'
'It's like rancid meat and bad eggs.'
'Evil, Scapegrace insisted.
Derek Landy
#98. The fact is that eating meat and dairy is bad for your health, the health of the animals eaten, as well as the health of the planet.
Sharon Gannon
#99. I rebelled against the Mormon Church by going to other churches. I rebelled against my parents by not eating meat. I rebelled against my friends and myself by doing drugs. And I rebelled against everything that was holding me down by playing music with these guys.
Bert McCracken
#100. It reminded me of a meat grinder. From when I was a kid. Going to school it felt like you were in a meat grinder. It chews you up and pours out this mess that can't function
Gerard Way
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