By eating meat we share responsibility for causing climate change, the destruction of our forests, and the poisoning of our air and… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
One can quite understand vegetarianism. One can quite understand meat-eating. But it is difficult to understand why a person who is a… — B. R. Ambedkar Copy Share Image
“We can eat meat, it tastes good, but it’s very costly considering the land we have to use to produce the plants… — Sven-Erik Jacobsen Copy Share Image
Meat is a mighty contributor to climate change and other environmental problems. The amount of meat we're eating is one of the… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“a pig produces about four times as much solid waste as an average person, a typical CAFO [Concentrated Animal Feed Operation] of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The symbolism of meat-eating is never neutral. To himself, the meat-eater seems to be eating life. To the vegetarian, he seems to… — Mary Midgley Copy Share Image
I grew up in India during the 1960s and '70s in a meat-eating Hindu family. Only my mother and my grandparents were… — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
“It's the reason we say "pork" and "beef" instead of "pig" and "cow." Dissection and surgical instruction, like meat-eating, require a carefully… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
But when, at the end of my sophomore year, I became a philosophy major and started doing my first seriously pretentious thinking,… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“For specific causes of death, compared with regular meat eaters, low meat eaters had ~30–45% lower mortality from pancreatic cancer, respiratory disease,… — Paul Appleby Copy Share Image
Some meat eaters defend meat eating by pointing out that it is natural: in the wild, animals eat one another. The animals… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
To avoid causing terror to living beings, let the disciple refrain from eating meat... the food of the wise is that which… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“Most of us believe that eating meat is natural because humans have hunted and consumed animals for millennia. And it is true… — Melanie Joy Copy Share Image
“There is general agreement that red meat consumption increases the risk of colon or colorectal cancer. This was the only food association… — Gary E. Fraser Copy Share Image
We know it (meat eating) is indisputably the number one cause of global warming. So what does it mean exactly to be… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Bread, however, is their chief food. It is cheap; they like it; it comes into the house ready cooked, it is always… — Maud Pember Reeves Copy Share Image
Hindus and Westerners alike see in the meat-eating taboos of India a triumph of morals over appetite. This is a dangerous misrepresentation… — Marvin Harris Copy Share Image
It is true that every being is enjoying life or suffering as a direct result of his or her own past actions.… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
The hardest part of returning to a truly healthy environment may be changing the current totally unsustainable heavy-meat-eating culture of increasing numbers… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
If you like eating meat but want to eat ethically, this is the book for you. From the hard-headed, clear-eyed, and sympathetic… — Marion Nestle Copy Share Image
In fact, we would know ourselves that we are not meant to be meat eaters, and we would not have allowed ourselves… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
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