Meat Quotes:

They put arsenic in his meat And stared aghast to watch him eat; They poured strychnine in his cup And shook to see him drink it up.

- A. E. Housman

topic: Meat, Arsenic, Watches, Aghast

I tried the paleo diet, which is the caveman diet - lots of meat. And I tried the calorie restriction diet: The idea is that if you eat very, very little - if you're on the verge of starvation, you will live a very long time, whether or not you want to, of course.

- A. J. Jacobs

topic: Ideas, Long, Meat, Paleo Diet

Whenever I'm about to eat meat I always see my little dog's eyes.

- Adele

topic: Dog, Eye, Meat

I'm not a vegetarian, but I have cut back sharply on the meat that I eat.

- Al Gore

topic: Cutting, Meat, Vegetarian

So I am living without fats, without meat, without fish, but am feeling quite well this way. It always seems to me that man was not born to be a carnivore.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Men, Feelings, Meat, Carnivores

I eat meat. I don't go to the gym.

- Alice Englert

topic: Meat, Gym

It occurred to me that I just didn't see how I could go ahead and continue to eat meat. It just seemed so... cannibalistic to me. And so, I'm a vegetarian, and I have been ever since.

- Alice Paul

topic: Meat, Vegetarian

One must cook a piece of meat a thousand times before one begins to truly understand it.

- Andre Soltner

topic: Pieces, Meat, Thousand

Don't take a butcher's advice on how to cook meat. If he knew, he'd be a chef.

- Andy Rooney

topic: Advice, Meat, Chef, Butchers

I am a hunter of beauty and I move slow and I keep the eyes wide, every fiber of every muscle sensing all wonder and this is the thrill of the hunt and I could be an expert on the life full, the beauty meat that lurks in every moment. I hunger to taste life. God.

- Ann Voskamp

topic: Moving, Eye, Meat

Wholesome food is wholesome food anywhere. I may not like something but, generally speaking, if it's a busy, street food stall serving mystery meat in India, they're in the business of serving their neighbors. They're not targeted toward a transient crowd of tourists that won't be around tomorrow. They're not in the business of poisoning their neighbors.

- Anthony Bourdain

topic: Meat, Tourists, India, Poisoning, Wholesome Food

Understand, when you eat meat, that something did die. You have an obligation to value it - not just the sirloin but also all those wonderful tough little bits.

- Anthony Bourdain

topic: Meat, Littles, Tough

To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living.

- Anthony Bourdain

topic: Food, Meat, Pork, Life Is Not Worth Living, Kitchen Confidential

To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living. Vegetarians are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit, an affront to all I stand for, the pure enjoyment of food.

- Anthony Bourdain

topic: Enemy, Meat, Pork

I don't like to see animals in pain. That was very uncomfortable to me. I don't like factory farming. I'm not an advocate for the meat industry.

- Anthony Bourdain

topic: Pain, Animal, Meat, Meat Industry, Factory Farming

Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets.

- Anthony Burgess

topic: Fashion, Men, Meat, Old Fashion, Fashion Statement

My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker.

- Anthony Hopkins

topic: Father, Men, Meat, Meat And Potatoes

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

topic: Thinking, People, Meat, Hunk

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

topic: Ostriches, Meat, Bison

Histories used often to be stories: the fashion now is to leave out the story. Our histories are stall-fed: the facts are absorbed by the reflexions, as the meat is sometimes by the fat.

- Augustus William Hare

topic: Fashion, History, Meat

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

- B. C. Forbes

topic: Positive, Meat, Dessert, Dessert First

As for my diet, I try to eat lean, clean and healthy - nothing too surprising. And I avoid too much meat or dairy because they slow you down.

- Bear Grylls

topic: Healthy, Trying, Meat, Dairy

Sweet meat must have sour sauce.

- Ben Jonson

topic: Sweet, Swans, Meat

My refusing to eat meat occasioned inconveniency, and I have been frequently chided for my singularity. But my light repast allows for greater progress, for greater clearness of head and quicker comprehension.

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: Light, Progress, Meat, Clearness, Singularity

Beware of meat twice boiled, and an old foe reconciled.

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: Meat, Danger, Foe

I don't smoke, I don't drink much, I don't eat red meat. I stay out of the sun.

- Bernadette Peters

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Meat, Red, Sun, Red Meat

I'm a post-modern vegetarian. I eat meat ironically.

- Bill Bailey

topic: Meat, Vegetarian, Modern

All life is a blur of Republicans and meat.

- Bill Griffith

topic: Meat, Life Is, Republican

I'm a vegetarian, but I don't expect other people not to eat meat.

- Bjorn Lomborg

topic: People, Meat, Vegetarian

It ain't my cup of meat.

- Bob Dylan

topic: Expression, Meat, Cups

Go vegetable heavy. Reverse the psychology of your plate by making meat the side dish and vegetables the main course.

- Bobby Flay

topic: Vegetables, Psychology, Meat, Side Dishes, Reverse Psychology

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

- Bobby Flay

topic: Meat, Temperature, Fishes, Thermometers

Meat eating and a compassionate religion do not go hand in hand.

- Bodo Balsys

source: Bodo Balsys (2004). “Ahiṃsā: Buddhism and the Vegetarian Ideal”

topic: Buddhist, Hands, Meat, Meat Eating

The meat in the sausage has got to be Conservative.

- Boris Johnson

topic: Meat, Sausage, Conservative

Is that what I've become, a piece of meat?

- Brad Renfro

topic: Meat, Pieces

I would make a poor vegetarian because I adore meat.

- Britt Ekland

topic: Meat, Vegetarian, Poor

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

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Long, Important, Meat

Meat-eaters make every day a 9/11 for animals in slaughterhouses.

- Brock Chisholm

topic: Animal, Meat, Slaughterhouses

Eating meat is not your personal decision, any more than, you know, whether somebody beats their child is their personal decision.

- Bruce Friedrich

topic: Children, Decision, Meat, Personal Decisions

Innocents, the meat in a ghastly sandwich between an uncaring society and a vengeful state.

- Bryce Courtenay

topic: Meat, Sandwiches, States, Uncaring, Vengeful

I don't eat much meat, fish, or poultry.

- Carol Burnett

topic: Meat, Poultry, Fishes

Until a vegan or vegetarian enters the room, people don't see themselves as meat-eaters. They are merely 'eaters', and it is we vegans who have made them aware of what they are doing. Often this is discomforting.

- Carol J. Adams

topic: People, Meat, Rooms, Raising Awareness

I cannot do the piece-of-talking-meat thing, the 'Here's your money, wear a pretty dress and take the cheque.' I'm not made that way. I have to be as good as I can be at whatever I do.

- Carol Vorderman

topic: Talking, Meat, Dresses, Cheques

When people ask me why I don't eat meat or any other animal products, I say, 'Because they are unhealthy and they are the product of a violent and inhumane industry.'

- Casey Affleck

source: YouTube Channel "peta2TV"/"Casey Affleck's Banned 'Go Vegan' PSA", www.peta2.com. February 06, 2013.

topic: Animal, People, Meat, Inhumane, Meat Industry

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

topic: Sports, Meat, Taste

Some people love Sundays; I don't, particularly. I used to rather dread them when I was younger. I was brought up on Sunday roasts, which I've always loathed. If I didn't finish my meat, I had to sit with it for most of the afternoon. No wonder I'm a vegetarian now.

- Celia Imrie

topic: Sunday, People, Meat

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

topic: Creepy, Meat, Red, Red Meat

They claim red meat is bad for you. But I never saw a sick-looking tiger.

- Chi Chi Rodriguez

topic: Sick, Meat, Care, Red Meat

Red meat is not bad for you. Now blue-green meat, that's bad for you!

- Chi Chi Rodriguez

topic: Health, Blue, Meat, Delicious Food, Eating Food

I want a big fat woman with meat shaking on her bones.

- Chick Willis

topic: Meat, Want, Bones, Fat Women

Making love to a fat woman sure is a treat, because I'm here to tell you that meat hold heat.

- Chick Willis

topic: Making Love, Meat, Heat, Fat Women

Finest fur may cover toughest meat.

- Chief Joseph

topic: Meat, Fur, May

The women who inspired this play deserved to be smacked across the head with a meat ax and that, I flatter myself, is exactly what I smacked them with.

- Clare Boothe Luce

topic: Play, Meat, Inspired

I feel like a nude little piece of white meat out here.

- Cody Lundin

topic: White, Survival, Meat

The meat. I'd barbecue it before I put it on

- Cody Simpson

topic: Meat, Barbecue

The way you cut your meat reflects the way you live.

- Confucius

topic: Food, Cutting, Meat, Eating Food, Great Food

This dish ain't just called Karate Meat because it's got an Asian kick to it. It's called Karate Meat because it will beat you up like a pigeon in prison.

- Coolio

topic: Food, Cooking, Meat

The longest-lived people eat a plant-based diet. They eat meat but only as a condiment or a celebration. Nothing they eat has a plastic wrapper.

- Dan Buettner

topic: People, Meat, Celebration, Condiments, Plant Based Diet

Meat and poultry is safe. It's safer than it's probably ever been.

- Dan Glickman

topic: Poultry, Meat, Safe

I've been just eating very healthy, all organic, no sugar, white flour, nothing artificial. I'm being so incredibly strict... not a lot of meat!

- Danica McKellar

topic: White, Healthy, Meat, Flour

It's a Tim sandwich. The meat is fresh, but the bread is moldy.

- Daniel Craig

topic: Meat, Sandwiches, Bread

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

- Daphne Oz

topic: Growing Up, Meat, Vegetarian

All the white meat is gone. There's nothin' but necks on the platter.

- Darrell Royal

topic: White, Meat, Gone

Some people are still going to want to eat meat. We do agree though that vegetarianism is a healthier diet.

- Dave Stroud

topic: Vegetarianism, People, Meat, Vegan Health, Vegan Diet

For me, directing is like writing with meat. I can write live, in real time, and change things and be confident that I'm helping the movie.

- David Ayer

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Real, Writing, Meat

The weak are meat the strong do eat.

- David Mitchell

topic: Strong, Meat, Weak

The headline is the 'ticket on the meat.' Use it to flag down readers who are prospects for the kind of product you are advertising.

- David Ogilvy

topic: Perspective, Meat, Flags

Among the earliest forms of human self-awareness was the awareness of being meat.

- David Quammen

source: David Quammen (2004). “Monster of God: The Man-Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind”, p.3, W. W. Norton & Company

topic: Self, Meat, Being Me

I grew up in Texas, eating meat five times a day, and I liked meat. But I began being a vegetarian when I was 19 because I found that I felt better.

- Dean Ornish

topic: Texas, Meat, Vegetarian, Eating Meat

In our house, some of our favourite recipes just happen to be vegetarian, but I still enjoy meat and I believe very much in meat.

- Delia Smith

topic: Believe, House, Meat

That kind of ball is meat and two drink for the Palace defence.

- Denis Irwin

topic: Football, Two, Meat

Not eating meat is a decision, eating meat is an instinct.

- Denis Leary

topic: Decision, Meat, Engagement, Meat Eating, Eating Meat

The people of the future will say, 'meat-eaters!' in disgust and regard us in the same way that we regard cannibals and cannibalism.

- Dennis Weaver

source: "The vegetarians". Book by Rynn Berry, p. 64, 1979.

topic: People, Meat, Way, Cannibal, Cannibalism

Years ago on the set of Gunsmoke I read the book The Holy Science. Since then I have not eaten meat.

- Dennis Weaver

topic: Book, Years, Meat

If you can justify killing to eat meat, you can justify the conditions of the ghetto. I cannot justify either one.

- Dick Gregory

topic: Ghetto, Meat, Killing

I have been heartbroken once and it has affected all my relationships from there on. But now I look at it as a occupational hazard. If you are in the meat market at some point you are gonna get mad cows disease.

- Dominic Monaghan

topic: Heartbroken, Mad, Meat, Occupational Hazards, Mad Cow Disease

I eat meat, the rarer the better.

- Dominique Swain

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Meat

Tofu hot dogs are actually scarier than real hot dogs. It's like wanting the worst possible meat product without even the thrill of it actually being meat.

- Douglas Coupland

topic: Dog, Real, Meat, Tofu

I quit eating red meat a long time ago. I'm a vegetarian, but not by a moral issue or any kind of stand. I still eat dairy. And I quit eating sugar about the same time I quit eating red meat, but I eat fruit.

- Dwight Yoakam

topic: Issues, Long, Meat, Dairy, Red Meat

I have a company called Earl Campbell Foods. I got into the meat business in 1991.

- Earl Campbell

topic: Meat, Company

Love is not all; it is not meat nor drink.

- Edna St. Vincent Millay

topic: Love Is, Meat, Drink

Being a public person doesn't necessarily mean you're a piece of meat for everybody.

- Elle Macpherson

topic: Mean, Meat, Pieces

Don't you quote Sister White. I don't want you ever to quote Sister White until you get your vantage ground where you know where you are. Quote the Bible. Talk the Bible. It is full of meat, full of fatness. Carry it right out in your life, and you will know more Bible than you know now.

- Ellen G. White

topic: Bible, White, Meat, Fatness

I think many cooks are afraid of undercooked meats. A good thermometer is a cook's best friend.

- Emeril Lagasse

topic: Friendship, Thinking, Meat, Thermometers

How terribly hard and almost impossible it is to tell the truth. More than anything else, the artist in us prevents us from telling aught as it really happened. We deal with the truth as the cook deals with meat and vegetables.

- Eric Hoffer

topic: Artist, Vegetables, Meat

If we each had to butcher our own meat, there would be a great increase in the number of vegetarians.

- Ernest Howard Crosby

source: Ernest Howard Crosby (1904). “Tolstoy and His Message”

topic: Numbers, Meat, Would Be, Butchers

I kill flies, I eat meat, you know, whatever.

- Ethan Hawke

topic: Meat

But I love fish, cheese and meat, and I eat everything, but only in small quantities if it's rich.

- Eva Herzigova

topic: Fish Tanks, Meat, Cheese

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

topic: People, Meat, Pay

We got hooked on grain-fed meat just as we got hooked on gas guzzling automobiles. Big cars made sense only when oil was cheap; grain-fed meat makes sense only because the true costs of producing it are not counted.

- Frances Moore Lappé

source: "Diet for a Small Planet". Book by Frances Moore Lappé, 1971.

topic: Oil, Car, Meat, Big Cars

When I'm painting the picture, I'm really painting a picture. I may have a flat-footed technique, or something like that, but still, to me, the thrill, or the meat of the thing, is the actual painting. I don't get any thrill out of laying it out.

- Frank Stella

topic: Technique, Meat, Thrill, Painting A Picture

It's like a prehistoric reflex, you know, going out and getting the meat and bringing it back to the cave. You feel you're supposed to make it better, but more than likely she's asking you to tell her how you feel.

- Fred Ward

topic: Meat, Going Out, Asking, Reflexes, Prehistoric

The English will agree with me that there are plenty of good things for the table in America; but the old proverb says: 'God sends meat and the devil sends cooks.'

- Frederick Marryat

topic: America, Devil, Meat, Old Proverb

Meat is necessary when there is hard physical work to be done, or in a very cold climate, or when edible plants cannot be found...Animal flesh provides all the substances we need, both for the intensive working of our organism and for maintaining a normal temperature in cold climates.

- G. I. Gurdjieff

topic: Animal, Meat, Climate, Cold Climate

I like meat and carbohydrates.

- Gabrielle

topic: Meat, Carbohydrates

If people want to be real meat eaters, I'd love to see people eat raw flesh from the bone, down to the bone with nothing left but the bones, day after day after day.

- Gary Yourofsky

topic: Real, People, Meat

Meat consumption shouldn't be normal.

- Gene Baur

topic: Meat, Normal, Consumption, Meat Consumption

I followed the same diet for 20 years, eliminating starches, living on salads, lean meat, and small portions.

- Gene Tierney

topic: Years, Meat, Salad, Eliminating

The (Academy Award) ceremonies are a two-hour meat parade, a public display with contrived suspense for economic reasons.

- George C. Scott

source: "Oscar no-shows: 9 Hollywood stars who snubbed the Academy Awards" by Gina Vivinetto, www.today.com. February 21, 2017.

topic: Awards, Two, Meat, Academy Awards, Award Ceremonies

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

topic: Knowledge, Meat, Clubs

Wit, without wisdom, is salt without meat; and that is but a comfortless dish to set a hungry man down to.

- George Horne

source: George Horne (1818). “The works of the Right Reverend George Horne ...: to which are prefixed memoirs of his life, studies, and writings”, p.421

topic: Men, Meat, Salt, Hungry Man

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

topic: School, Kids, Meat, Grinder

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

topic: Reading, Animal, Meat, Dairy Products

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

topic: Animal, Meat, Moral

Only fools argue whether to eat meat or not. They don't understand truth nor do they meditate on it. Who can define what is meat and what is plant Who knows where the sin lies, being a vegetarian or a non vegetarian

- Guru Nanak

topic: Lying, Meat, Deceit

No matter how tough the meat may be, it's going to be tender if you slice it thin enough.

- Guy Fieri

source: "Save on a Memorial Day party, Guy Fieri-style" by Candice Choi, www.today.com. May 19, 2011.

topic: Meat, May, Matter

Have you ever eaten alien meat?

- Gwen Cooper

topic: Meat, Aliens

I don't eat red meat, but sometimes a man needs a steak.

- Gwyneth Paltrow

source: "The Best Lines From Gwyneth Paltrow's New Cookbook". Interview with Raphael Brion, www.eater.com. March 19, 2013.

topic: Food, Men, Meat, Red Meat

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

- Halldór Laxness

topic: Men, Independence, Meat

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

topic: Long, People, Meat, Domesticity

Fame is a food that dead men eat, I have no stomach for such meat.

- Henry Austin Dobson

source: 'Fame is a Food' (1906)

topic: Men, Meat, Fame

It demeans you to cover rotten meat with honey. I know what I am. What would you want with a monster?" "Everything.

- Holly Black

topic: Monsters, Meat, Rotten

If God didn't want us to eat cows, why are they made out of meat?

- Homer

topic: Meat, Want, Cows

How much courage does it take for Dean to throw red meat to the party faithful?

- Howard Dean

topic: Party, Faithful, Meat, Red Meat

I believe if the viewing of slaughter was required to eat meat, most folks would become vegetarians.

- Howard Lyman

topic: Believe, Meat, Vegetarian

To consider yourself an environmentalist and still eat meat is like saying you're a philanthropist who doesn't give to charity.

- Howard Lyman

topic: Giving, Meat, Charity, Philanthropist

An environmentalist that eats meat is like a philanthropist that won't give money to charities.

- Howard Lyman

topic: Giving, Meat, Charity

When the lion had eaten its fill, and the jackals had taken their share, the ants came along and finished up the meat from the bones of the haughty stag.

- Idries Shah

topic: Taken, Meat, Lions, Jackals, Stags

Recognize meat for what it really is: the antibiotic- and pesticide-laden corpse of a tortured animal.

- Ingrid Newkirk

topic: Animal, Meat, Antibiotics, Pesticides, Animal Food

Eating meat is primitive, barbaric, and arrogant.

- Ingrid Newkirk

topic: Meat, Arrogant, Eating, Barbaric, Animal Activist

Consumers of meat, eggs and dairy products might well ask what they are supporting. Do farmers care about anyone but themselves? Can't anyone see the cow for the cheese?

- Ingrid Newkirk

topic: Eggs, Meat, Care, Dairy Products

As we have seen, bread, and especially dry bread, evokes secretion of considerably larger quantities of saliva than meat.

- Ivan Pavlov

topic: Meat, Dry, Bread, Saliva

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

topic: Meat, Salad, Good Person, Eating Meat

Babies cannot eat meat but some adults like milk.

- J. Vernon McGee

topic: Baby, Meat, Adults

The aim of life was meat. Life itself was meat. Life lived on life. There were the eaters and the eaten. The law was: EAT OR BE EATEN. He did not formulate the law in clear, set terms and moralize about it. He did not even think the law; he merely lived the law without thinking about it at all.

- Jack London

topic: Thinking, Law, Meat, Fangs, Aim Of Life

I'm a pescatarian - I don't even eat meat!

- Jacqueline Emerson

source: "‘The Hunger Games’’ Jacqueline Emerson: Girl On Fire". The Huffington Post Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 22, 2012.

topic: Meat

It's more useful to have knowledge about cuts of meat than a lot of money.

- Jacques Pepin

topic: Cutting, Meat

If I had to narrow my choice of meats down to one for the rest of my life, I am quite certain that meat would be pork.

- James Beard

source: James Beard (2015). “James Beard's Theory and Practice of Good Cooking”, p.96, Open Road Media

topic: Choices, Meat, Pork

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

- James Cromwell

topic: Kids, Meat, Vegan, Factory Farming, Vegetarian Health

A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk.

- James Joyce

topic: Cheesy, Meat, Gone, Blue Cheese

Why would any sensible human being put meat filled with ammonia in the mouths of their children?

- Jamie Oliver

topic: Children, Meat, Mouths

I don't like meat from the grocery store, it makes me nervous

- Jase Robertson

topic: Meat, Nervous, Stores

Most people see a documentary about the meat industry and then they become a vegetarian for a week.

- Jason Reitman

source: "Jason Reitman grows up with young adult". Interview with Angela Watercutter, December 15, 2011.

topic: People, Meat, Documentaries, Meat Industry

Denmark is charging a fat food tax on cheese, meat, and oil. Here, we call that the Denny's Grand Slam breakfast.

- Jay Leno

topic: Oil, Meat, Breakfast

We eat a lot of lean meat and fresh vegetables.. You are what you eat, you know. When I'm 100 I'll still be doing pin-ups.

- Jayne Mansfield

topic: Vegetables, Meat, Pins

We eat a lot of lean meat and fresh vegetables

- Jayne Mansfield

topic: Vegetables, Meat

I can't even describe to anybody what it feels like to have my naked body shot across the world like a news flash against my will. It just makes me feel like a piece of meat that's being passed around for profit.

- Jennifer Lawrence

topic: Feminist, Meat, Naked

The interesting thing is, while we die of diseases of affluence from eating all these fatty meats, our poor brethren in the developing world die of diseases of poverty, because the land is not used now to grow food grain for their families.

- Jeremy Rifkin

topic: Land, Interesting, Meat, Fatty, Interesting Things

I'm a meat girl and I just love having a beer.

- Jill Goodacre

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Girl, Beer, Meat

Physical hunger and physical poverty is something I could only imagine. I've been poor when I was in China... As kids we never had to starve, but just didn't have enough meat, enough rice.

- Joan Chen

topic: Kids, Meat, Poverty

While vegans and meat-eaters disagree, we can all be united in our fear and hatred for the horror that is factory farming.

- Joel Salatin

topic: Hatred, Meat, Vegan, Factory Farming

At this point, I wouldn't be able to digest meat, and I don't like eating things with faces.

- Joely Fisher

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Meat, Able, Faces

If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?

- John Cleese

source: "W.T.F.?". Book by H. M. Leathem, 2006.

topic: Funny, Animal, Meat

I just don't like it when people get credited for their voice work and it's really shitty. It's really thin, there's nothing to it, there's no meat behind it. It's, like, "Oh, it's a celebrity."

- John DiMaggio

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Voice, People, Meat

All fresh meat is eaten in a state of decay. The process may not have proceeded so far that the dull human nose can discover it, but a carrion bird or a carrion fly can smell it from afar.

- John Harvey Kellogg

source: John Harvey Kellogg “The New Dietetics, What to Eat and How”, Рипол Классик

topic: Smell, Bird, Meat, Carrion

Starting in the mid-'80s, I played in a band called Meat Joy, and we made our own record, toured.

- John Hawkes

source: Interview with Noel Murray, film.avclub.com. June 10, 2010.

topic: Joy, Meat, Band

God never sends the mouth but he sendeth meat.

- John Heywood

topic: Meat, Mouths, Providence

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

- John Milton

topic: Book, Evil, Meat

Awareness is bad for the meat business. Conscience is bad for the meat business. Sensitivity to life is bad for the meat business. DENIAL, however, the meat business finds indispensable.

- John Robbins

source: John Robbins (2011). “Diet for a New America: How Your Food Choices Affect Your Health, Happiness, and the Future of Life on Earth”, p.92, H J Kramer

topic: Meat, Denial, Life Is

A reduction in meat consumption is the most powerful single act that you can take to halt the destruction of our environment and preserve our natural resources.

- John Robbins

topic: Powerful, Meat, Vegan, Meat Consumption, Natural Resources

A king is a thing men have made for their own sakes, for quietness sake. Just as in a family one man is appointed to buy the meat.

- John Selden

topic: Kings, Men, Meat, Quietness

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

- John Suckling

source: c.1638 Sonnet no.2.

topic: Meat, Delight, Eating

Who besides a degraded rabble would voluntarily present itself to be graded and classified like meat? No wonder school is compulsory.

- John Taylor Gatto

topic: School, Meat, Wonder, Compulsory Education, Schools And Education

It's harder to eat meat when you know the animal's name...I have found.

- Jon Stewart

topic: Animal, Names, Meat

I was helping my mom grind meat at our butcher shop, and it just hypnotized me. I don't remember sticking my hand in, but it sheared off the three middle fingers and left me with a pinkie and a thumb.

- Jon Tester

source: "What I've Learned: Senator Jon Tester (D, Mont.)" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. October 28, 2010.

topic: Mom, Hands, Meat, Middle Finger

I want to give people theories, I want to expose them to scientific stories that force them to re-evaluate the way they use these three pounds of meat inside their head.

- Jonah Lehrer

topic: People, Giving, Meat, Evaluate

I'd like to do policy and I'd like to do philosophy, I'd like to be able to get into the depth, into the meat of the argument - that's the kind of stuff I want to do.

- Jonathan Krohn

topic: Philosophy, Meat, Depth

You can make great meals without meat that are, of course, much more healthy for the same price, but it takes a process of reeducation, just because Americans aren't familiar with how to cook vegetables anymore.

- Jonathan Safran Foer

topic: Vegetables, Healthy, Meat

Consumers are going to have get used to eating less meat - to paying more for better quality meat and eating significantly less of it.

- Jonathan Safran Foer

topic: Quality, Meat, Eating, Eating Less

When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.

- Jonathan Safran Foer

topic: Meat, Flesh, Becoming

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

topic: Meat, Doe, Sausage

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

topic: People, Giving, Meat

I think anyone who is a carnivore needs to understand that meat does not originally come in these neat little packages.

- Julia Child

topic: Thinking, Meat, Doe, Carnivores, Packages

It was 100,000 years before we figured out what to do with fire. Imagine cavemen, sitting in front of a fire, eating raw meat for 100 thousand years.

- Julian Casablancas

topic: Fire, Years, Meat, Cavemen, Eating Raw

The English, who eat their meat red and bloody, show the savagery that goes with such food.

- Julien Offray de La Mettrie

topic: Insulting, Meat, Red, Savagery

I grew up in cattle country-that's why I became a vegetarian. Meat stinks, for the animals, the environment, and your health.

- K. D. Lang

topic: Country, Animal, Meat, Vegan Health

If you knew how meat was made, youd probably lose your lunch.

- K. D. Lang

topic: Lunch, Meat, Made

I am proud to be a vegetarian and I am against those who eat meat. Go green to be fit, that's the best way for me at least.

- Kareena Kapoor

topic: Meat, Green, Proud, Go Green

In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and clothes and even handbags, the discussion of fur is childish.

- Karl Lagerfeld

topic: Clothes, Shoes, Meat, Meat Eating, Leather Shoes

I'm not strictly vegetarian, but meat doesn't play a big part in my diet.

- Katie Holmes

topic: Play, Meat, Vegetarian

I unfortunately still crave chicken McNuggets and bacon, which is the meat candy of the world.

- Katy Perry

topic: Meat, World, Chickens

Without [hatred] Michelle Malkin would just be a big mashed up bag of meat with lipstick on it.

- Keith Olbermann

topic: Hatred, Meat, Bags

My last supper would be a charcuterie smorgasbord with every kind of meat, and sauces to dip them in.

- Kelis

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Meat, Would Be, Sauce, Last Supper

When I'm at craft services, I make the best-tasting,10-layer meat and cheese sandwich with no bread.

- Kellan Lutz

topic: Meat, Sandwiches, Crafts, Cheese Sandwiches

By no means do I want to be a piece of meat for the rest of my career. It's funny when you get asked to do a talk show, and then they follow it up with requesting you take your shirt off.

- Kellan Lutz

topic: Mean, Careers, Meat, Shirt Off

The preface? Why would he waste time with the preface? Skip the preface and move on to the meat of the thing!

- Kenneth Oppel

topic: Moving, Meat, Waste

I love, love, love the street-cart food. Gyros are like a meat-flavored fruit roll-up. A meat roll-up.

- Kumail Nanjiani

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Meat, Fruit, Carts

My soul knows my meat is doing bad things, and is embarrassed. But my meat just keeps right on doing bad, dumb things.

- Kurt Vonnegut

topic: Dumb, Soul, Meat, Dumb Things

There's no sense drawing attention to yourself, Li." "Hellooooo. I'm aHorseman of the Apocalypse, and I'm betrothed to the most infamous, most powerful demon in existence. I couldn't draw more attention to myself i I wore Lady Gaga's meat dress to a PETA convention.

- Larissa Ione

topic: Powerful, Drawing, Meat, Peta, Drawing Attention

I'm on this diet where you're supposed to eat only fish and meat.

- Lasse Hallstrom

source: "Soft-centred". Interview with David Eimer, www.theguardian.com. February 23, 2001.

topic: Fish Tanks, Meat, Fishes

When I stopped eating meat, I fell in love with East Indian food - there's so much selection, and they use the most beautiful spices.

- Laura Mennell

topic: Beautiful, Meat, East, Indian Food

A taste older than meat, older than wine. A taste as old as cold water.

- Lawrence Durrell

topic: Wine, Water, Meat

I deserved kisses. I deserved to be treated like a piece of meat but also respected for my intellect.

- Lena Dunham

topic: Kissing, Meat, Pieces, Kind Of Girl

I never eat meat as I think it is wrong to deprive animals of their life when they are so difficult to chew anyway

- Leonora Carrington

source: " Leonora Carrington once served her guests a hair omelette. My kind of woman" by Sam Leith, www.theguardian.com. June 5, 2011.

topic: Animal, Thinking, Meat

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

topic: Running, Party, Meat, Dinner Party

It was admitted by the early rabbis that the sectarians could be as full of good works as eggs were full of meat.

- Lionel Blue

topic: Eggs, Meat, Good Work

I eat fish and love bacon. Plus, I don't mind if soups are made with chicken or beef stock, I just don't like eating big pieces of meat.

- Lisa Loeb

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Mind, And Love, Meat

I try to avoid cheese, dairy and a lot of meat, but I do like them.

- Lynda Carter

topic: Trying, Meat, Cheese

Meat is a status dish in which the sizzle counts for more than the nutritional worth.

- Magnus Pyke

topic: Food, Meat, Dishes

A reduction of meat consumption by only 10% would result in about 12 million more tons of grain for human consumption. This additional grain could feed all of the humans across the world who starve to death each year- about 60 million people!

- Marc Bekoff

source: Marc Bekoff (2007). “Animals Matter: A Biologist Explains Why We Should Treat Animals with Compassion and Respect”, p.119, Shambhala Publications

topic: Years, People, Meat, Meat Consumption

One of these nuts is a meal for a man, both meat and drink.

- Marco Polo

source: Marco Polo, Ronald Latham (2007). “The Customs of the Kingdoms of India”, Penguin Group USA

topic: Men, Nuts, Meat

I didn't work on the killing floor. I worked in the section where you break the meat down and package it

- Marg Helgenberger

topic: Meat, Down And, Killing, Packages

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

topic: Balls, Bombs, Meat, Meatballs, Spicy

Red wine is a great accompaniment to meat.

- Mario Lemieux

topic: Wine, Red, Meat

The brain happens to be a meat machine.

- Marvin Minsky

topic: Brain, Meat, Machines

I never really liked meat. I was a child that had to be forced to eat my meat. Whatever you ate before that you loved like turkey slices they've got a substitute now that's not hard to find.

- Masta Killa

topic: Children, Turkeys, Meat

People are essentially red meat. They are.

- Max Cannon

topic: People, Red, Meat, Red Meat

He is by nature a vegetarian but would never consider giving up meat.

- Michael Chabon

topic: Giving Up, Hypocrisy, Meat

A liberal society cannot be defended by herbivores. We need carnivores to save us, but we had better make sure the meat-eaters hunt only on our orders.

- Michael Ignatieff

source: "Lesser Evils" by Michael Ignatieff, www.nytimes.com. May 2, 2004.

topic: Order, Meat, Needs, Carnivores

Everything we eat begins with a plant turning solar energy into carbohydrates. Everything. Whether we're eating meat or eating vegetables, it all begins there. So I'm always interested in taking things back to the beginning.

- Michael Pollan

topic: Vegetables, Meat, Energy, Solar Energy, Eating Meat