Meat Eating Quotes:

But ...meat eating in any form, in any manner, and in any place is unconditionally and once and for all prohibited ...Meat eating I have not permitted to anyone, I do not permit, I will not permit.

- Gautama Buddha

topic: Vegetarianism, Meat Eating, Eating Meat, Animal World

Meat-eating is condemned by the Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, and Sravakas; if one devours meat out of shamelessness he will always be devoid of sense.

- Gautama Buddha

topic: Buddhist, Meat Eating, Bodhisattva

Not that I'm against meat eating. But I think we're eating too much.

- Michael Pollan

source: Source: www.motherjones.com

topic: Thinking, Meat Eating, Too Much

Food conditions the nature of the mind. Mind guides the thinking. Thinking results in action. Actions lead to commensurate or matching results and effects. This chain of action between the food we eat and the results of our actions highlights the fact that meat eating leads to beastly actions and the concomitant evil effects.

- Sathya Sai Baba

topic: Thinking, Meat Eating, Evil, Highlights, Beastly

You take this meat eating. Many people have to kill the animals because of your non-vegetarianism. You are responsible for the death of those animals. They are killed because you eat them. This is a sin. What a sin to kill innocent animals and eat them.

- Sathya Sai Baba

topic: Animal, Vegetarianism, Meat Eating

Some meat eaters defend meat eating by pointing out that it is natural: in the wild, animals eat one another. The animals that end up on our breakfast, lunch, and dinner plates, however, aren't those who normally eat other animals. The animals we exploit for food are not the lions and tigers and bears of the world. For the most part, we eat the gentle vegan animals. However, on today's farms, we actually force them to become meat eaters by making them eat feed containing the rendered remains of other animals, which they would never eat in the wild.

- Sharon Gannon

source: "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

topic: Animal, Meat Eating, Lunch, Wild Animal, Dinner Plates

Human overconsumption is a greater problem than human population growth, and meat eating is a big part of that problem.

- Sharon Gannon

source: "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

topic: Meat Eating, Growth, Population, Overconsumption, Human Population

It is true that every being is enjoying life or suffering as a direct result of his or her own past actions. The animals in the factory farms may have been meat-eating human beings in a previous birth; we don't know, and it is not our place to judge.

- Sharon Gannon

source: "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

topic: Animal, Past, Meat Eating

The hardest part of returning to a truly healthy environment may be changing the current totally unsustainable heavy-meat-eating culture of increasing numbers of people around the world. But we must try. We must make a start, one by one.

- Jane Goodall

topic: Meat Eating, Numbers, People, Healthy Environment

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

- Denis Leary

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

By eating meat we share responsibility for causing climate change, the destruction of our forests, and the poisoning of our air and water. The simple act of becoming a vegetarian can make a difference in the health of our planet.

- Nhat Hanh

source: "The World We Have: A Buddhist Approach to Peace and Ecology". Book by Nhat Hanh, September 1, 2008.

topic: Buddhist, Peace, Responsibility, Meat Eating, Eating Meat

A human can be healthy without killing animals for food.

- Leo Tolstoy

topic: Food, Animal, Meat Consumption, Meat Eating, Killing Animals

The eating of meat extinguishes the seed of Great Kindness.

- Gautama Buddha

topic: Buddhist, Kindness, Compassion, Meat Eating, Eating Meat

If we're not supposed to eat animals, how come they're made out of meat?

- Tom Snyder

topic: Cute, Animal, Meat, Meat Eating, Cute Funny

A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.

- Leo Tolstoy

topic: Food, Men, Animal, Inspirational Animal, Meat Consumption

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

I do not like eating meat because I have seen lambs and pigs killed. I saw and felt their pain. They felt the approaching death. I could not bear it. I cried like a child. I ran up a hill and could not breathe. I felt that I was choking. I felt the death of the lamb.

- Vaslav Nijinsky

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

topic: Children, Pain, Pigs, Meat Eating, Eating Meat

I just could not stand the idea of eating meat - I really do think that it has made me calmer.... People's general awareness is getting much better, even down to buying a pint of milk: the fact that the calves are actually killed so that the milk doesn't go to them but to us cannot really be right, and if you have seen a cow in a state of extreme distress because it cannot understand why its calf isn't by, it can make you think a lot.

- Kate Bush

topic: Thinking, Ideas, People, Meat Eating, Calves

We know it (meat eating) is indisputably the number one cause of global warming. So what does it mean exactly to be an environmentalist on a daily basis if you are not thinking about the number one cause of global warming or one of the top two or three causes of all other environmental problems? Does it mean you are necessarily someone who doesn't care about the environment? Obviously not, but it might mean you have a blind spot for something big.

- Jonathan Safran Foer

topic: Mean, Thinking, Numbers, Meat Eating, Blind Spots

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

The United Nations four or five years ago put out a study that said the meat industry, meat-eating, growing meat for food is the No. 1 killer of our planet - not No. 2 or No. 3: No 1. You know what's No. 2? Transportation. Everyone thinks that No. 1 is transportation, and goes out and buys a hybrid car. Screw the hybrid cars. Don't eat hamburgers.

- Maggie Q

topic: Thinking, Years, Car, Hybrid Cars, Meat Eating

We take these animals and completely violate who they are. We use them, abuse them, and deprive them all their lives…then we cut their throats, shred them and eat them! Morally, I’m against it, ethically, I can’t justify it, and ecologically, it’s just insane. The thought of meat-eating makes me shudder. As far as wearing fur is concerned, it is the rudest, most inconsiderate, selfish and sick façade I can imagine.

- River Phoenix

topic: Selfish, Cutting, Animal, Meat Eating, Inconsiderate

In fact, we would know ourselves that we are not meant to be meat eaters, and we would not have allowed ourselves to become conditioned to meat eating in the first place, if the effects of meat eating were felt right away. But since heart disease, cancer, diabetes, osteoporosis, etc. usually take many years to develop, we are able to separate them from their cause (or contributing factors) and go on happily eating an animal-based diet.

- Sharon Gannon

source: "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

topic: Cancer, Heart, Animal, Meat Eating, Osteoporosis

You, (my meat-eating friends), put your health at risk – that’s your business. But animal-based diets put the land, the water, the air, a society’s collective health, and even our collective pharmaceutical resources at risk. That’s my business. That’s everyone’s business.

- Howard Lyman

topic: Animal, Air, Land, Meat Eating

Hindus and Westerners alike see in the meat-eating taboos of India a triumph of morals over appetite. This is a dangerous misrepresentation of cultural processes. Hindu vegetarianism was a victory not of spirit over matter but of reproductive over productive forces.

- Marvin Harris

source: Marvin Harris (2011). “Cannibals and Kings: Origins of Cultures”, p.229, Vintage

topic: Vegetarianism, Victory, India, Meat Eating, Misrepresentation

While self-interest arising from the enjoyment of meat eating is obviously one reason for its entrenchment, and inertia another, a process of language usage engulfs discussions about meat by constructing the discourse in such a way that these issues need never be addressed. Language distances us from the reality of meat eating, thus reinforcing the symbolic meaning of meat eating, a symbolic meaning that is intrinsically patriarchal and male-oriented. Meat becomes a symbol for what is not seen but is always there--patriarchal control of animals and of language.

- Carol J. Adams

topic: Distance, Animal, Reality, Meat Eating, Symbolic Meaning

If you like eating meat but want to eat ethically, this is the book for you. From the hard-headed, clear-eyed, and sympathetic perspective of butchers who care deeply about the animals whose parts they sell, the customers who buy their meats, and the pleasures of eating, this book has much to teach. It’s an instant classic, making it clear why meat is part of the food revolution. I see it as the new Bible of meat aficionados and worth reading by all food lovers, meat-eating and not.

- Marion Nestle

topic: Meat Eating, Eating Meat, Worth Reading

The whole underside of our society has always been violence and still is. Churches, laws - everybody seems to think that man is a noble savage. But he's only an animal. A meat-eating, talking animal. Recognize it. He also has grace and love and beauty. But don't say to me we're not violent.

- Sam Peckinpah

topic: Animal, Men, Thinking, Meat Eating, Grace And Love

The American fast food diet and the meat eating habits of the wealthy around the world support a world food system that diverts food resources from the hungry. A diet higher in whole grains and legumes and lower in beef and other meat is not just healthier for ourselves but also contributes to changing the world system that feeds some people and leaves others hungry.

- Walden Bello

topic: People, Support, Beef, Hunger For Food, Hunger In America

We live in a culture that has institutionalized the oppression of animals on at least two levels: in formal structures such as slaughterhouses, meat markets, zoos, laboratories, and circuses, and through our language. That we refer to meat eating rather than to corpse eating is a central example of how our language transmits the dominant culture's approval of this activity.

- Carol J. Adams

topic: Zoos, Animal, Two, Meat Eating, Dominant Culture

But when, at the end of my sophomore year, I became a philosophy major and started doing my first seriously pretentious thinking, I became a vegetarian again. The kind of willful forgetting that I was sure meat eating required felt too paradoxical to the intellectual life I was trying to shape. I thought life could, should, and must conform to the mold of reason. You can imagine how annoying this made me.

- Jonathan Safran Foer

topic: Philosophy, Thinking, Years, Sophomore Year, Meat Eating

The symbolism of meat-eating is never neutral. To himself, the meat-eater seems to be eating life. To the vegetarian, he seems to be eating death. There is a kind of gestalt-shift between the two positions which makes it hard to change, and hard to raise questions on the matter at all without becoming embattled.

- Mary Midgley

source: Mary Midgley (1998). “Animals and why They Matter”, p.27, University of Georgia Press

topic: Two, Symbolism, Gestalt, Meat Eating, Raises Questions

To avoid causing terror to living beings, let the disciple refrain from eating meat.

- Gautama Buddha

topic: Vegetarianism, Meat, Eating, Meat Eating, Eating Meat