“The Pennsylvania Game Commission has charged a man with going deer hunting with a handgun in a Wal-Mart parking lot. He is being charged with reckless endangerment, but may plead guilty to the lesser charge of being a redneck.... Hunting in a Wal-Mart parking lot. That's got to be some good eating a deer that lives on leftover Twizzlers and Mountain Dew.” MenMayGamesMountainEatingGuiltyHuntingRecklessDewRedneckDeerParkingPennsylvaniaParking LotHandgunsGood EatingDeer HuntingEndangermentMountain Dew Author:Jay Leno
“When virtuous mental attitudes, like mindfulness, respect, and compassion, are invoked to justify nonvirtuous acts like hunting, fishing, and eating animal products, the mental attitudes are insincere. They are self-deceptions that we create to justify habits that in our hearts we know are wrong, but to which we have become attached.” KnowsHeartSelfAnimalAttitudeCompassionProductsHabitMindfulnessEatingBuddhistDeceptionFishingJustifyHuntingVirtuousSelf DeceptionMental AttitudeEating AnimalsInsincere Author:Norm Phelps
“Had the cub thought in man-fashion, he might have epitomized life as a voracious appetite, and the world as a place wherein ranged a multitude of appetites, pursuing and being pursued, hunting and being hunted, eating and being eaten, all in blindness and confusion, with violence and disorder, a chaos of gluttony and slaughter, ruled over by chance, merciless, planless, endless.” MenWorldMightChanceViolenceFashionEatingChaosEndlessConfusionDisorderAppetiteHuntingMultitudesBlindnessPursuedSlaughterGluttonyHuntedCubs Book:White Fang Source: White Fang
“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.” IfsWayShouldMightAnimalProveEatingCapableKillingSillyCrueltyReasonableGapsEndeavorHuntingAbstractionEating Animals Author:Jonathan Safran Foer
“Hunting humans for sport? Eating them?" the bitterness in his voice cut through me. "Yeah, I caught that part." "That doesn't have anything to do with you? He lifted his eyes, gaze shuttered. "No?" "Not unless being a werewolf transforms you into a wolf AND a redneck moron.” HumansEyeSportsVoiceCuttingEatingYeahCaughtHis EyesBitternessHuntingRedneckWerewolfMoron Author:Kelley Armstrong
“If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating.” IfsLossSupportSubjectsFoodConversationEatingHuntingIntroducingEating Food Author:Leigh Hunt