Meat Eating Quotes
18 quotes by 15 authors
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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,…
— River Phoenix
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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
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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…
— Howard Lyman
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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.…
— Marvin Harris
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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…
— Carol J. Adams
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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…
— Marion Nestle
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The whole underside of our society has always been violence and still is. Churches, laws - everybody seems to think that man is a noble…
— Sam Peckinpah
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To avoid causing terror to living beings, let the disciple refrain from eating meat... the food of the wise is that which is consumed by…
— Gautama Buddha
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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…
— Walden Bello
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Meat eating and a compassionate religion do not go hand in hand.
— Bodo Balsys
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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…
— Sathya Sai Baba
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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.…
— Sathya Sai Baba
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In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and clothes and even handbags, the discussion of fur is childish.
— Karl Lagerfeld
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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.…
— Maggie Q
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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.…
— Mary Midgley
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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…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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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,…
— Carol J. Adams
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Meat-eating orchids forgive no one just yet.
— Nirvana
Who Wrote These Meat Eating Quotes
15 authors contributed a total of 18 Meat Eating Quotes as follows: