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If you love animals, please don't eat them. -- Esha Gupta
Pigs are filthy animals. I don't eat filthy animals. -- Quentin Tarantino
Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends. -- George Bernard Shaw
The only meat I eat is from animals I've killed myself. -- Mark Zuckerberg
You're a good example of why some animals eat their young. -- Jim Samuels
I guess in general, people tend to not eat the cute animals. -- Elayne Boosler
Honestly, I would eat cardboard rather than go back to eating animals. -- Ellen DeGeneres
People should try eating no animal products for just ONE DAY a week. -- Casey Affleck
Eating animals is not our God-given right, but being kind to them is. -- Tsem Tulku
I believe if you're prepared to kill the animal, you're allowed to eat it. -- Douglas Booth
Anyone who cares about the Earth - really cares - must stop eating animals. -- Linda McCartney
If we're not supposed to eat animals, how come they're made out of meat? -- Tom Snyder
Animals were my pets, and the thought of eating my pets freaked me out. -- Carrie Underwood
I think breakfast is the one meal when you don't have to eat animal, maybe. -- Lena Dunham
I also became a vegetarian when I was 14 because I realized eating animals was cruel. -- Julia Hill
I try to only eat animals that are vegan. I'm probably the opposite of a vegan. -- Jim Gaffigan
When a human being kills an animal for food, he is neglecting his own hunger for justice. -- Isaac Bashevis Singer
I adore pigs, and I love eating them and cooking them, and I love using the whole animal. -- April Bloomfield
I was one of those kids who found it difficult to eat anything that looked like an animal. -- Gina McKee
I think, if you were being cruel to animals, then the thought of eating them would be horrific. -- Elizabeth Hurley
I don't eat four-legged animals, but I eat birds, I eat cheese, I eat dessert. I eat everything. -- Gwyneth Paltrow
Everybody thinks people who promote PETA don't eat meat, but I think animals were made to be eaten. -- Dominique Swain
What people need to understand is, that if they are eating animals, they are promoting cruelty to animals. -- Pamela Anderson
If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat? -- John Cleese
In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined. -- Thomas Szasz
...eating animals involves an intentional decision to participate in the suffering and death of nonhumans where there is no plausible moral justification. -- Gary L. Francione
I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in it's gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals. -- Henry David Thoreau
If a man can control his body and mind and thereby refrains from eating animal flesh and wearing animal products, I say he will really be liberated. -- Gautama Buddha
We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience. -- Gary L. Francione
I'll never stop eating animals, I'm sure, but I do think that for the benefit of everyone, the time has come to stop raising them industrially and stop eating them thoughtlessly -- Mark Bittman
It's very interesting to blur the line between eating human beings and eating animals, because I do think people should think more about what they put in their bodies, whether it is nutritionally or philosophically. -- Bryan Fuller
We have to realize that treating animals well is in our best interests, too. Cruelty is indivisible; when you are cruel to an animal, you are training yourself to be cruel to people, too (and vice versa). -- Jonathan Balcombe
Ninety-nine percent of all land animals eaten or used to produce milk and eggs in the United States are factory farmed. So although there are important exceptions, to speak about eating animals today is to speak about factory farming. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
I'm always active in trying to educate people when it comes to eating animal products, testing on animals, and the health benefits of being vegan, although I'm probably not the best person to be talking about the latter at the moment. -- Daniel Johns
If we are not given the option to live without violence, we are given the choice to center our meals around harvest or slaughter, husbandry or war. We have chosen slaughter. We have chosen war. That's the truest version of our story of eating animals. Can we tell a new story? -- Jonathan Safran Foer
If we pursue our habit of eating animals, and if our neighbour follows a similar path, will we need to go to war against our neighbour to secure greater pasturage, because ours will not be enough to sustain us, and our neighbour will have a similar need to wage war on us for the same reason. -- Socrates
I personally don't like eating animals. I'm not the kind of person that tries to preach to other people. But, for me, I don't feel right about doing it. That's the main reason why I stay vegetarian...I know the guys that have switched [to vegetarian] all swear by it-they say they love how it makes them feel. -- Jake Shields
Cruelty...prefers abstraction. Some have tried to resolved this gap by hunting or butchering an animal themselves, as if those experiences might somehow legitimize the endeavor of eating animals. This is very silly. Murdering someone would surely prove that you are capable of killing, but it woudln't be the most reasonable way to understand why you should or shouldn't do it. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
We can't plead ignorance, only indifference. Those alive today are the generations that came to know better. We have the burden and the opportunity of living in the moment when the critique of factory farming broke into the popular consciousness. We are the ones of whom it will be fairly asked, What did you do when you learned the truth about eating animals? -- Jonathan Safran Foer
Almost always when I told someone I was writing a book about "eating animals", they assumed, even without knowing anything about my views, that it was a case for vegetarianism. It's a telling assumption, one that implies not only that a thorough inquiry into animal agriculture would lead one away from eating meat, but that most people already know that to be the case. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
Language is never fully trustworthy, but when it comes to eating animals, words are as often used to misdirect and camouflage as they are to communicate. Some words, like veal, help us forget what we are actually talking about. Some, like free-range, can mislead those whose consciences seek clarification. Some, like happy, mean the opposite of what they would seem. And some, like natural, mean next to nothing. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
Animals feed themselves; men eat; but only wise men know the art of eating -- Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
But itâ??s compounded by the fact that I love animals and feel better not eating them. -- Kristen Bell
When they were naming the animals, somebody got lazy: anteater? What's it doing? It's eating ants. DONE! -- Demetri Martin
Feeding plants to animals then eating the animals is like filtering water through a sewer then drinking it. -- Bruce Friedrich
The logical conclusion to a compassionate and respectful relationship to sentient animals is that we stop eating them. -- Jonathan Balcombe
We are already eating less animal foods since a few years ago, but we are still eating 8-9 billion animals per year. -- Mark Bittman
I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals. -- Henry David Thoreau
My respect and empathy towards animals includes sea dwellers too--from dolphins to fish to lobsters. So, of course, I wouldn't dream of eating them. -- Alexandra Paul
The beginning of mindful eating is the realization that eating meat is not about the meat-eater; it is about the animals who are tormented and killed. -- Norm Phelps
The fact is that eating meat and dairy is bad for your health, the health of the animals eaten, as well as the health of the planet. -- Sharon Gannon
I think if you're against cruelty and you look at what happens to animals in slaughterhouses and on factory farms, you have to be completely against eating meat. -- Ingrid Newkirk
Well it's true, ever since I stopped eating meat I feel a lot better among animals, I feel I can be much more honest when I pat a dog. -- Leonard Cohen
I'll never stop eating animals, I'm sure, but I do think that for the benefit of everyone, the time has come to stop raising them industrially and stop eating them thoughtlessly. -- Mark Bittman

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