#vegeta

It shouldn't be the consumer's responsibility to figure out what's cruel and what's kind, what's environmentally destructive and what's sustainable. Cruel and destructive food products should be illegal. We don't need the option of buying children's toys made with lead paint, or aerosols with chlorofluorocarbons, or medicines with unlabeled side effects. And we don't need the option of buying factory-farmed animals. ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#animal-rights #capitalism #ecology #sustainability #vegan

Ironically, the utterly unselective omnivore -- "I'm easy; I'll eat anything" -- can appear more socially sensitive than the individual who tries to eat in a way that is good for society. ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#vegetarianism #food

It appeals to the higher nature of the self to put aside food which once lived - I do not consider myself food, why should I ask all other creatures to consider themselves so? ↗

— Catherynne M. Valente

#omnivore #vegetarian #food

Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#good #interesting #lack #meat #purpose

I let the food speak for itself and the food always wins... ↗

— Rachel Frank

#vegan #vegetarian #food

I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#alone #books #cats #cook #feed

One time I took my knife and sliced off the end of a hog’s nose, just like a piece of salami. The hog went crazy for a few seconds. Then it sat there looking kind of stupid. So I took a handful of salt and rubbed it on the wound. Now that hog really went nuts. It was my way of taking out frustration. Another time, there was a live hog in the pit. It hadn’t done anything wrong, wasn’t even running around. It was just alive. I took a three-foot chunk of pipe and I literally beat that hog to death. It was like I started hitting the hog and I couldn’t stop. And when I finally did stop, I’d expended all this energy and frustration, and I’m thinking what in God’s sweet name did I do. ↗

— Gail A. Eisnitz

#brutality #cruelty #frustration #meat #pigs

Ground beef can hardly be classified as meat. A pureed animal is an aesthetic ideal. ↗

— Bauvard

#art #beef #funny #humor #meat

The question is not, "Can they reason?" nor, "Can they talk?" but "Can they suffer? ↗

— Jeremy Bentham

#moral #vegetarian #morals

I grew up a vegetarian. Then, because I grew up in the states, I started slowly eating meat. First it was bologna sandwiches, or pepperoni on pizza. ↗

— Padma Lakshmi

#eating #first #grew #i #meat