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“Plants, animals, and stars are all kept in place, bridled along appointed ways, with one another, and through the midst of one another -- killing and being killed, eating and being eaten, in harmonious proportions and quantities.”

Way Stars Nature Animal Eating Plant Killing Proportion Midst Quantity Harmonious

Book:STEEP TRAILS: California - Utah - Nevada - Washington - Oregon - The Grand Canyon: Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Nature Essays and Wilderness Studies from the author of The Yosemite, Our National Parks, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf & Picturesque California

Source: STEEP TRAILS: California - Utah - Nevada - Washington - Oregon - The Grand Canyon: Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Nature Essays and Wilderness Studies from the author of The Yosemite, Our National Parks, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf & Picturesque California

“No one supposed that dinoflagellates might actively kill fish as an evolved response for their own specific advantage, including a potential nutritional benefit for the algal cells. And yet the dinoflagellates do seem to be killing and eating fishes in a manner suggesting active evolution for this most peculiar reversal.”

Seems Might Evolution Benefits Eating Advantage Response Killing Including Fishes Active Cells Peculiar Suggesting Reversal

Book:Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms: Essays on Natural History

Source: Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms: Essays on Natural History

“Man was born into barbarism when killing his fellow man was a normal condition of existence. He became endowed with a conscience. And he has now reached the day when violence toward another human being must become as abhorrent as eating another's flesh.”

Men Humans Born Human Beings Existence Violence Conditions Normal Eating Conscience Fellows Killing Flesh Fellow Man Barbarism Abhorrent

Book:Why We Can't Wait

Source: Why We Can't Wait

“You shouldn't run around killing people or eating meat. That's not what we mean by tantra. There's no need to break the rules.”

People Needs Mean Philosophy Running Break Eating Killing Meat Tantra Eating Meat

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Sentimentalising is anathema, as far as I am concerned. It leads you into ethical problems about violence and killing and eating meat. The whole world becomes topsy-survy if you impose moralities that were evolved within human society on what a blowfly or what a parasite does... there are lots of emotions you can deduce from an animal's behaviour that are correct, but when you start saying it's feeling guilty or thinking or a loved one or mourning, you must be very careful of those feelings.”

“The Christians seized all the maize the locals of Nicaragua had grown for themselves and their own families and, as a consequence, some twenty or thirty thousand natives died of hunger, some mothers even killing their own children and eating them.”

Children Christian Mother Atheism Thousand Eating Consequence Died Twenties Killing Hunger Positive Atheism Locals Thirty Nicaragua Maize

Author:Bartolome de las Casas

“Animals are murdered to produce meat; vegetables are torn up, peeled, and chopped; most of what we eat is treated with fire; and chewing is designed remorselessly to finish what killing and cooking began. People naturally prefer that none of this should happen to them. Behind every rule of table etiquette lurks the determination of each person present to be a diner, not a dish.”

Source: The Rituals of Dinner: The Origins, Evolution, Eccentricities, and Meaning of Table Manners

“Men, also, have in them enormous capacities that they have to repress and fear in themselves, living up to this obsolete and brutal man-eating, bear-killing, Ernest Hemingway, crewcut Prussian sadistic, napalm all the children in Vietnam, bang-bang you're dead, image of masculinity, the image of all powerful masculine superiority that is absolute.”

Men Children Powerful Bears Eating Capacity Absolutes Killing Enormous Vietnam Brutal Superiority Masculinity Masculine Bangs Obsolete Sadistic Napalm

Author:Betty Friedan

“Good food is a celebration of life, and it seems absurd to me that in celebrating life we should take life. That is why I don't eat flesh. I see no need for killing.”

Needs Should Seems Animal Food Eating Killing Flesh Absurd Celebrate Animal Rights Celebration Good Food Celebrate Life Eating Food Celebration Of Life

Book:The Vegetarian Epicure

Source: The Vegetarian Epicure

“And I have stopped eating tuna until the tuna nets cease killing tens of thousands of dolphins every single year.”

Years Eating Killing Cease Dolphins Tuna

Book:The Crocodile Hunter: The Incredible Life and Adventures of Steve and Terri Irwin

Source: The Crocodile Hunter: The Incredible Life and Adventures of Steve and Terri Irwin

“I'm not a vegetarian. Now, don't get me wrong - I like animals. And I don't think it's just fine to industrialize their production and to churn them out like they were wrenches. But there's no way to treat animals well when you're killing 10 billion of them a year. Kindness might just be a bit of a red herring. Let's get the numbers of animals we're killing for eating down, and then we'll worry about being nice to the ones that are left.”

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Author:Mark Bittman

“My perception of the human animal is as an extremely dangerous predator. That's who I perceive us to be as a species. Maybe the most dangerous predator on the planet, with the exception of a few microbes. I'm really grateful for the degree of socialization that prevents us, most of the time, from killing and eating each other. And I admire all the social structures that have been designed and layered and niched in that encourage bonding toward a kind of social harmony that is meant to contain and counteract our natural inclinations toward predation, ferocity, and eating whatever moves.”

Kind Moving Natural Animal Dangerous Perception Eating Harmony Grateful Killing Admire Perceive Exception Predator

Author:Katherine Dunn

“Crocodiles are easy. They try to kill and eat you. People are harder. Sometimes they pretend to be your friend first.”

People Trying Firsts Sometimes Funny Easy Animal Eating Harder Killing Betrayal Pretending Cunning Hypocrite I Hate You Predator Crocodiles Plainness Friend Betrayal

Author:Steve Irwin

“A pair of werewolves occupied another booth. They were eating raw shanks of lamb and arguing about who would win in a fight: Dumbledore from Harry Potter books or Magnus Bane. "Dumbledore would totally win," said the first one. "He has the badass Killing Curse." The second lycanthrope made a trenchant point. "But Dumbledore isn't real." "I don't think Magnus Bane is real either," scoffed the first. "Have you ever met him?" "This is so weird," said Clary, slinking down in her seat. "Are you listening to them?" "No. It's rude to eavesdrop," said Jace.”

Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels

“"Clear-cutting" was the word for what the Rusties had done to the old forests: felling every tree, killing every living thing, turning entire countries into grazing land. Whole rain forests had been consumed, reduced from millions of interlocking species to a bunch of cows eating grass, a vast web of life traded for cheap hamburgers. "Look, we're not clear-cutting. All we're doing is pulling out the garbage that the Rusties left behind,” David said. "It just takes a little surgery to do it."”

“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.”

Ifs Way Should Might Animal Prove Eating Capable Killing Silly Cruelty Reasonable Gaps Endeavor Hunting Abstraction Eating Animals

Author:Jonathan Safran Foer

“This isn't animal experimentation, where you an imagine some proportionate good at the other end of the suffering. This is what we feel like eating. Tell me something: Why is taste, the crudest of our sense, exempted from the ethical rules that govern our other sense? If you stop and think about it, it's crazy. Why doesn't a horny person has as strong a claim to raping an animal as a hungry one does to killing and eating it?”

Ifs Thinking Feels Persons Doe Ends Suffering Strong Animal Imagine Crazy Taste Eating Claims Killing Hungry Ethical Experimentation Horny Animal Experimentation

Author:Jonathan Safran Foer