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If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends. -- Orson Welles
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
Meat isn't murder, it's delicious. -- John Lydon
Meat consumption shouldn't be normal. -- Gene Baur
I became vegetarian after 'Meat is Murder' in 1985. -- Mike Joyce
Meat-eaters make every day a 9/11 for animals in slaughterhouses. -- Brock Chisholm
Meat eaten without either mirth or music is ill of digestion. -- Walter Scott
Meat eating and a compassionate religion do not go hand in hand. -- Bodo Balsys
Meat and poultry is safe. It's safer than it's probably ever been. -- Dan Glickman
Meat is dirty. I wouldn't touch a hot dog without a condom on it -- Bill Maher
You can't record an album called 'Meat Is Murder' and slip out for a burger. -- Andy Rourke
Meat is a status dish in which the sizzle counts for more than the nutritional worth. -- Magnus Pyke
Meat is a tremendous environmental challenge. It contributes enormous amounts of greenhouse gas, especially beef eating. -- Michael Pollan
Cultural indoctrination makes stupid people believe there's nothing wrong in Meat Eating. There is. Who eat it, lose "It". -- Fakeer Ishavardas
You know what's more insane than [slaughterhouses]? Meat eaters. Walking around, acting like their lifestyle isn't causing any harm. -- Gary Yourofsky
Starting in the mid-'80s, I played in a band called Meat Joy, and we made our own record, toured. -- John Hawkes
Meat!" he said scornfully"I'm a vegetarian."You eat cheese enchiladas and aluminum cans," I reminded him.Those are vegetables. -- Rick Riordan
Meat!" he said scornfully. "I'm a vegetarian." You eat cheese enchiladas and aluminum cans," I reminded him. Those are vegetables. -- Rick Riordan
I grew up in cattle country-that's why I became a vegetarian. Meat stinks, for the animals, the environment, and your health. -- K. D. Lang
Meat reared on land matures relatively quickly, and it takes only a few pounds of plants to produce a pound of meat. -- Sylvia Earle
What riches give us let us then inquire: Meat, fire, and clothes. What more? Meat, clothes, and fire. Is this too little? -- Alexander Pope
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
Meat is a wasteful use of water and creates a lot of greenhouse gases. It puts enormous pressure on the world's resources. A vegetarian diet is better. -- Nicholas Stern
My fantasy is to have a restaurant where there are no written menus, but where you just ask people, What are you in the mood for? Fish? Meat? White wine? -- Charlie Trotter
Bologna is a deli meat for people with eyes. -- Mitch Hedberg
Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert. -- B. C. Forbes
The eating of meat extinguishes the seed of great compassion. -- Gautama Buddha
Love is not all; it is not meat nor drink. -- Edna St. Vincent Millay
I myself eschew all stimulants. I also practically abstain from meat. -- Nikola Tesla
Not eating meat is a decision, eating meat is an instinct. -- Denis Leary
The way you cut your meat reflects the way you live. -- Confucius
Red meat is not bad for you. Now blue-green meat, that's bad for you! -- Tommy Smothers
It's harder to eat meat when you know the animal's name...I have found. -- Jon Stewart
If we're not supposed to eat animals, how come they're made out of meat? -- Tom Snyder
A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age. -- William Shakespeare
Recognize meat for what it really is: the antibiotic- and pesticide-laden corpse of a tortured animal. -- Ingrid Newkirk
Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat. -- Fran Lebowitz
I don't think I'll have to kill her. Just slap that pretty face into hamburger meat, that's all. -- Sterling Hayden
No matter how tough the meat may be, it's going to be tender if you slice it thin enough. -- Guy Fieri
If you step back and look at the data, the optimum amount of red meat you eat should be zero. -- Walter Willett
Does Greenpeace think it can stop whaling in Antarctica by publicly eating whale meat and declaring it delicious? What are these people thinking? -- Paul Watson
Let any pretty girl announce a divorce in Hollywood and the wolves come running. Fresh meat for the beast, and they are always hungry. -- Hedy Lamarr
Meat consumption is just as dangerous to public health as tobacco use... It's time we looked into holding the meat producers and fast-food outlets legally accountable. -- Neal Barnard
Tofu hot dogs are actually scarier than real hot dogs. It's like wanting the worst possible meat product without even the thrill of it actually being meat. -- Douglas Coupland
Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain; Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink. -- Edna St. Vincent Millay
Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory and the appetite is keen. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If one of the arguments against eating meat is to do with cruelty and animal intelligence, then lab meat avoids that. There's also the environmental argument for it. -- Margaret Atwood
Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat - no matter who killed the meat for him. -- Ernest Hemingway
Were the walls of our meat industry to become transparent, literally or even figuratively, we would not long continue to raise, kill, and eat animals the way we do. -- Michael Pollan
Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction -- John Owen
Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction. -- John Owen
If you want someone who's big-boned and you like that, ain't nothing wrong with having a little extra meat on there. If you like them thin-boned, then that's okay, too. -- Martin Lawrence
To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. -- Bette Davis
The current health crisis, however, is a little more the work of the evil empire. We were told, we were assured, that the more meat and dairy and poultry we ate, the healthier we'd be. -- Mark Bittman
I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men. -- Leonardo da Vinci
All normal people love meat. If I went to a barbeque and there was no meat, I would say 'Yo Goober! Where's the meat?'. I'm trying to impress people here Lisa. You don't win friends with salad. -- Dan Castellaneta
I ate no butcher's meat, lived chiefly on fruits, vegetables, and fish, and never drank a glass of spirits or wine until my wedding day. To this I attribute my continual good health, endurance, and an iron constitution. -- John James Audubon
My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again. -- Natalie Portman
If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies.... It would be a sad situation if the wrapper were better than the meat wrapped inside it. -- Albert Einstein
When I was old enough to realize all meat was killed, I saw it as an irrational way of using our power, to take a weaker thing and mutilate it. It was like the way bullies would take control of younger kids in the schoolyard. -- River Phoenix
I dislike the thought that some animal has been made miserable to feed me. If I am going to eat meat, I want it to be from an animal that has lived a pleasant, uncrowded life outdoors, on bountiful pasture, with good water nearby and trees for shade. -- Wendell Berry
Animals that we eat are raised for food in the most economical way possible, and the serious food producers do it in the most humane way possible. I think anyone who is a carnivore needs to understand that meat does not originally come in these neat little packages. -- Julia Child
Those who purify your water, inspect your meat, and test your kids' toys, as well as a huge number of nurses, teachers, and our soldiers, are public employees. The firefighters who don't hesitate to rush toward danger while you run away from it - they are all public employees. -- Jennifer Granholm
He'd been numb a long time, years. All his nights down Ninsei, his nights with Linda, numb in bed and numb at the cold sweating center of every drug deal. But now he'd found this warm thing, this chip of murder. Meat, some part of him said. It's the meat talking, ignore it. -- William Gibson
There is no doubt that some plant food, such as oatmeal, is more economical than meat, and superior to it in regard to both mechanical and mental performance. Such food, moreover, taxes our digestive organs decidedly less, and, in making us more contented and sociable, produces an amount of good difficult to estimate. -- Nikola Tesla
When people say they prefer organic food, what they often seem to mean is they don't want their food tainted with pesticides and their meat shot full of hormones or antibiotics. Many object to the way a few companies - Monsanto is the most famous of them - control so many of the seeds we grow. -- Michael Specter
I'm really still a child of the Forties. I still think about it a lot, about the repercussions of armed conflict. Until 1953 we had rationing. We couldn't buy meat, we couldn't buy pleasurable goods like cigarettes and sweets. I didn't starve - my family were lucky - but I knew what it was like standing in line waiting for foodstuffs. -- Eric Burdon
We were so poor as kids. I didn't even see a bathtub, running water, hot water, commode - we didn't have any of that. We started with a humble log house, milk cow, garden-raised our own food, killed a hog every year in the fall, and had the meat hanging up in the smokehouse - that was our childhood, me and ol' Si. -- Phil Robertson
If being a werewolf is really a curse, you've got to treat it honorably. If werewolves are going to carry on, there has to be an incredibly powerful force. There is the business of the craving, the hunger for the kill. It has to be deeply pleasurable and more than an appetite for meat. There has to be a sensual dimension to it. -- Glen Duncan
I don't eat red meat. -- Waka Flocka Flame
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I like meat and carbohydrates. -- Gabrielle
I like meat and carbohydrates. -- Gabrielle
Negative, I am a meat popsicle. -- Bruce Willis
Finest fur may cover toughest meat. -- Chief Joseph
Sweet meat must have sour sauce. -- Ben Jonson
Vegetarians are hotter then meat eaters. -- Oliver Sykes
I'm a big fan of meat. -- Preet Bharara
Have you ever eaten alien meat? -- Gwen Cooper
I don't eat any red meat. -- Taylor Momsen
It ain't my cup of meat. -- Bob Dylan
People are essentially red meat. They are. -- Max Cannon
Give up meat to save the planet. -- Nicholas Stern
I eat meat, the rarer the better. -- Dominique Swain
there's no doctor like meat and drink ... -- Susan Edmonstone Ferrier
My man prefers meat over the bone. -- Shakira
Eating meat is primitive, barbaric, and arrogant. -- Ingrid Newkirk
I'm so trying to give up meat. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
I recommend...bread, meat, vegetables, and beer. -- Sophocles
Outdid the meat, outdid the frolic wine. -- Robert Herrick
No amount of false propaganda can sanitize meat. -- Chrissie Hynde
Red wine is a great accompaniment to meat. -- Mario Lemieux
God sendeth and giveth both mouth and meat. -- Thomas Tusser
Cheese and salt meat, should be sparingly eat. -- Benjamin Franklin
I'm a post-modern vegetarian. I eat meat ironically. -- Bill Bailey
A hungry dog believes in nothing but meat. -- Anton Chekhov
God sends meat and the devil sends cooks. -- Thomas Deloney
Call me crazy - I love elk meat! -- Zoe Saldana
I don't eat much meat, fish, or poultry. -- Carol Burnett
The brain happens to be a meat machine. -- Marvin Minsky
The weak are meat the strong do eat. -- David Mitchell
I have one weakness: I love meat loaf. -- Jackee Harry
I'm a pescatarian - I don't even eat meat! -- Jacqueline Emerson
God never sends the mouth but he sendeth meat. -- John Heywood
I eat meat. I don't go to the gym. -- Alice Englert
Yo soy carne muerta. Translation: I am dead meat. -- Kiersten White
Babies cannot eat meat but some adults like milk. -- J. Vernon McGee
God sendeth and giveth both mouth and the meat. -- Thomas Tusser
I don't eat meat, I am not a carnival. -- Melanie
All life is a blur of Republicans and meat. -- Bill Griffith
As far as I'm concerned, I don't eat meat. -- Kim Basinger
Dad could charm a dog off a meat wagon. -- Rita Mae Brown
I liked Lady Gaga's meat dress. It was funny. -- Alejandro Jodorowsky
Is that what I've become, a piece of meat? -- Brad Renfro
I kill flies, I eat meat, you know, whatever. -- Ethan Hawke
I think of myself as a meat-and-potatoes kind of director. -- Stanley Donen
A statesman's words, like butcher's meat, should be well weighed. -- Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie
I would make a poor vegetarian because I adore meat. -- Britt Ekland
Our medium is meat, but we are made of information. -- Terence McKenna
Wake up meat head, don't pretend that you are dead. -- Ringo Starr

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