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Pavlov's findings were that some animals learned more quickly if rewarded (by affection, by food, by stroking) each time they showed the right response,…

— Joost Meerloo

“...we eat not so much for pleasure as we do to ward off an awful feeling...The fear of hunger is deeply rooted, and food…

— Michael Moss

Hunger and fear are the only realities in dog life: an empty stomach makes a fierce dog.

— Robert Falcon Scott

The resort to human flesh, often after months of ever-increasing hunger pangs, appeared to be an animallike reaction without painful emotional overtones.

— Pitirim Sorokin

Years of cultural programming have taught us to love some animals while eating others, when in all reality, all animals are sentient beings with…

— Kat Von D

“The joy from eating does not come from the exclusivity of the food, but instead from the sensitivity that we eat it with.”

— Nino Gruettke

“...but I still think that one of the pleasantest of all emotions is to know that I, I with my brain and my hands,…

— M.F.K. Fisher

“Some of this diversity in animal feeling is surely related to enculturation (we in the United States tend to love dogs and be disgusted…

— Jessica Pierce

“The repugnance to animal food is not the effect of experience, but it is instinct.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“what draws us to act is not the sensation we receive from the reward itself, but the need to alleviate the craving for that…

— Nir Eyal

“No other instinct can so satisfy without accomplishing its biological purpose, and no other instinct is so disconnected from its purpose.”

— Norman Doidge

“When it comes to food, we are, in essence, following an eating script that has been written into the circuits of our brains.”

— David Kessler