“I stopped eating meat about six years ago, when I was working on the movie Selena. During the shoot, I had to hold a chicken for five hours-if you hold it and feel its little heart beating for hours, you just can't think about eating it.” IfsThinkingFeelsYearsHeartLittlesHoursFiveSixEatingYears AgoMeatChickensHeart BeatEating MeatHeart Beating Author:Constance Marie
“Why do you think the lottery is so popular? Do you think anybody would play if the super payoff was a job on the night shift in a meat-packing plant? People play it so if they win they can be rich and idle. Like I told you years ago - if work is so good, how come they have to pay us to do it?” PeopleIfsThinkingYearsPlayJobsNightWinningPayRichYears AgoPlantMeatIdleLotteryPackingPayoffNight Shift Author:Mike Royko
“Growing up, it was always, 'If you buy kosher meat, they're killed humanely.' But I've seen so many horrible videos. What we thought was humane 100 years ago is not humane anymore. The ways animals suffer, I just couldn't be a part of it anymore.” IfsWayYearsSufferingAnimalGrowing UpGrowingYears AgoHorribleVideoMeatHumaneKosher Author:Carol Leifer
“Since I first went to India twenty some years ago, there's been a palpable change. There's now pizza everywhere, meat is much more popular than it's ever been. Vegetarianism is "that quaint thing our parents did."” YearsFirstsParentYears AgoIndiaTwentiesMeatVegetarianismPizzaQuaint Author:Neal Barnard
“The United Nations four or five years ago put out a study that said the meat industry, meat-eating, growing meat for food is the No. 1 killer of our planet - not No. 2 or No. 3: No 1. You know what’s No. 2? Transportation. Everyone thinks that No. 1 is transportation, and goes out and buys a hybrid car. Screw the hybrid cars. Don’t eat hamburgers.” ThinkingKnowsYearsSaidNationsUnitedStudyFiveFourGrowingCarPlanetsIndustryEatingYears AgoMeatFive YearsKillersScrewsUnited NationsOur PlanetTransportationHybridHamburgersMeat EatingMeat IndustryHybrid Cars Author:Maggie Q
“Our ancestors were eating meat over 2.5 million years ago. We mainly ate meat, fish, fruits, vegetables and nuts. We have to assume our physiology evolved in association with this diet. The balanced diet for our species was what we could acquire then, not what the government and doctors tell us to eat now.” YearsGovernmentMillionsEvolutionEatingYears AgoDoctorsAssumingSpeciesFruitFishesMeatDietsAcquireNutsVegetablesAssociationAncestorBalancedPhysiologyEating MeatBalanced Diet Author:Lionel Tiger