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“JÄ«vaka, I say that there are three instances in which meat should not be eaten: when it is seen, heard, or suspected [that the living being has been slaughtered for oneself]. I say that meat should not be eaten in these three instances. I say that there are three instances in which meat may be eaten: when it is not seen, not heard, and not suspected [that the living being has been slaughtered for oneself]. I say that meat may be eaten in these three instances.”
― Gautama Buddha, The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha: A Translation of the Majjhima Nikaya

“All kings must be butchers or meat.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“Look,â€� said Tyrena. ‘In twentieth-century Old Earth, a fast food chain took dead cow meat, fried it in grease, added carcinogens, wrapped it in petroleum-based foam, and sold nine hundred billion units. Human beings. Go figure.”
― Dan Simmons, Hyperion

“The English murder their meat twice: once when they shoot it, again when they cook it. 'Drôle, n'est-ce pas'?”
― Peter Mayle, A Good Year

“Meat is a 4-legged word.”
― Mango Wodzak, Destination Eden

“The Chinese food arrives. Delicious saliva fills his mouth. He really hasn’t had any since Texas. He loves this food that contains no disgusting proofs of slain animals, a bloody slab of cow haunch, a hen’s sinewy skeleton; these ghosts have been minced and destroyed and painlessly merged with the shapes of insensate vegetables, plump green bodies that invite his appetite’s innocent gusto. Candy. Heaped on a smoking breast of rice. Each is given such a tidy hot breast, and Margaret is in a special hurry to muddle hers with glazed chunks; all eat well. Their faces take color and strength from the oval plates of dark pork, sugar peas, chicken, stiff sweet sauce, shrimp, water chestnuts, who knows what else. Their talk grows hearty.”
― John Updike

“Wanaume hupenda nyama kwenye mifupa.”
― Enock Maregesi

“Have you seen the state of some of these vegetarians? They look like they’re going to drop down dead any minute. We didn’t fight our way to the top of the food chain to be vegetarians, did we? Can you imagine a fry-up without the sausage and bacon? Or not being able to order steak, egg and chips? Can you imagine Christmas dinner without the turkey? Or a barbeque without the ribs?”
― Karl Wiggins, You Really Are Full of Shit, Aren't You?

“Mind you, the effectiveness of one hunter’s gun does not determine the number of bush meats the other hunter will kill. You got to be yourself. Be you.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream

“In all the round world of Utopia there is no meat. There used to be. But now we cannot stand the thought of slaughter-houses. And, in a population that is all educated, and at about the same level of physical refinement, it is practically impossible to find anyone who will hew a dead ox or pig. We never settled the hygienic question of meat-eating at all. This other aspect decided us. I can still remember, as a boy, the rejoicings over the closing of the last slaughter-house.”
― H.G. Wells

“Meat may taste good, but the guilt of eating it tastes far worse.”
― Evan Baldonado

“The mass of the population before the modern era rarely ate meat as the mass of the peasantry rarely do in underdeveloped countries today. In Europe, in the Middle Ages, meat, especially red meat, was associated with aristocracy, landed gentry and their militaristic and hunting culture. It was this, also, that tended to strengthen the association of meat with power and aggression.”
― Malcolm Hamilton

“Better the butcher than the meat.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“It was machines that scanned the heavens, machines that probed the space between atoms, machines that asked the questions and designed to experiments to answer them. All that was left for mere meat, apparently, was navel-gazing.”
― Peter Watts, Echopraxia

“If you consume animal derived foods or use other animal derived products you are by no stretch of the imagination an "environmentalist." You are a rank hypocrite.”
― Will Hazlitt

“Fed by plants, fed up with the world”
― Evan Baldonado

“Adam is definitely said to be vegetarian and not only that but even after the fall, Adam is seen as one who did not even covet flesh! Mankind eating flesh did not even enter the picture according to Genesis until Noah after the deluge.

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The domestic cat would be at a loss to understand this herbivores' delight as being a paradise designed for it. This is because to the cat descended from African wild cats circa 8000 BCE in the Middle East would find it nearly impossible to believe it as true.”
― Leviak B. Kelly, Religion: The Ultimate STD: Living a Spiritual Life without Dogmatics or Cultural Destruction

“We might treat a rabbit as a pet or become emotionally attached to a goose, but we had come from cities and supermarkets, where flesh was hygienically distanced from any resemblance to living creatures. A shrink-wrapped pork chop has a sanitized, abstract appearance that has nothing whatever to do with the warm, mucky bulk of a pig. Out here in the country there was no avoiding the direct link between death and dinner.”
― Peter Mayle, A Year in Provence

“My father insisted I eat red meat. 'You'll lose your brain without food,' he said. A meal to him without beef was starvation.”
― Hannah Lillith Assadi, Sonora

“Siinä massa velloo kauppaan ja kotiin. Kädessä kassi ja kassissa ruoka. Päällä asu ja suolessa paska. Mitä näistä orjista. Nämä kuolevat mieluummin kuin joutuvat tilanteeseen jossa kaikki katsoo. Arkkuun ei tahdota mennä eikä toisaalta ottaa irti kaikkea mitä voisi ennen kuin sinne joka tapauksessa mennään. Ja minä haukun, miksi? Olenko itse parempi? Niin kuin joku vanhapiika minä tässä valittelen mitenkä maailmasta ei pääse jäähylle. Minkunkin pitäisi uskoa että joko sisään tai ulos, mutta kynnyksellä ei voi seisoa ja keikkua: se on maailman laki. Maailman on maailma. Mene halliin, katso lihaa, käsität kaiken. Hienojen rouvien koko pelin: ruskean pihvin ne hyväksyvät kun se sulaa suussa, mutta unohtavat kuinka se leikataan ruhosta ja kuinka sika kiljuu. Tappaa he eivät tahdo itse ja unohtavat että aina roiskuu veri jonkun kurkusta ennen kuin kynttilät sytytetään. Mitä siitä. Hyväksy ja käännä rouva selälleen, hamua karvapeitettä jalkovälissä, koko tiukoissa pöksyissä permanentattua aluskasvillisuutta, ja kohta osuu sormesi märkään läpeen joka on kuin märkä lapsentutti nurinpäin tai ylikypsä puutarhamansikka. Lörise ja hörise ja kaikkea on. On. Ja maailman silloin ihana paikka. Ja olet kuolemankin kaveri.”
― Jouko Turkka, Aiheita

“For all malignant cancers, both fish eaters and vegetarians and vegans combined had significantly lower mortality than regular meat eaters [HR: 0.76 (95% CI: 0.63, 0.91) and HR: 0.82 (95% CI: 0.72, 0.94), respectively]. Vegetarians and vegans combined also had significantly lower mortality than did regular meat eaters for pancreatic cancer [HR: 0.47 (95% CI: 0.26, 0.86); P-heterogeneity = 0.065] and cancers of the lymphatic/hematopoietic tissue [HR: 0.43 (95% CI: 0.27, 0.70)], and low meat eaters had significantly lower respiratory disease mortality than regular meat eaters [HR: 0.69 (95% CI: 0.49, 0.97); P-heterogeneity = 0.14].”
― Paul Appleby

“Uncle Jeff insisted that I also take a tray of unseasoned barbecue, so I could see for myself that what's going on here at the Skylight Inn does not in any way, shape, or form depend for it's flavor or quality on "sauce." That is a word he pronounces with an upturned lip and a slight sneer, suggesting that the use of barbecue sauce was at best a culinary crutch deserving of pity and at worst a moral failing.”
― Michael Pollan, Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation

“I saw then how I could be a good Buddhist and a good chef, and serve meat that is given freely, without suffering.”
― Matthew Johnson, Irregular Verbs and Other Stories

“The less one knows about meat, the more one is able to enjoy it. Meat tastes wonderful, of course, but as with the lad hawking hard-to-find wares at unbelievable prices, it’s best not to ask too many questions.”
― Brian South, The Zombie Sheriff Takes Tucson: A Love Story

“When men cry, real men, we cry Man Tears. Those are tears made up of actual meat. We basically cry pork chops and steaks. Imagine a steak tearing its way out of your eye. It hurts like hell, which causes more tears. It's a vicious cycle”
― Larry Gent, To Money and a TV

“Footjobâ€�. Feetjob in overall point of view it should be meatjob. After all if you remove the hairâ€� if there is suchâ€� then remove the skinâ€�.. look it's fucking meat.”
― Deyth Banger

“And try as we might, small magic never seems to win out over giant meat.”
― Matt Wallace, Lustlocked

“This is not a lie: Memory has the taste and texture of cooked meat. Eat it and live. Remember, but only what it is licit to remember.

In Aerograd, the word for meat and memory are the same.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, The Bread We Eat in Dreams

“We are not just a piece of meat which was born like an animal”
― Sunday Adelaja

“There is general agreement that red meat consumption increases the risk of colon or colorectal cancer. This was the only food association with cancer that was labeled ‘‘convincing’â€� in the recent report from the World Cancer Research Fund, American Institute for Cancer Research (42). The evidence, of course, largely came from studies of meat consumption in nonvegetarians, although data from Adventist vegetarians in California concur (43).”
― Gary E. Fraser