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A strong and well-constituted man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds all included) just as ...

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Jīvaka, I say that there are three instances in which meat should not be eaten: when it is seen, hea...

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Gautama BuddhaThe Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha: A Translation of the Majjhima Nikaya

In all the round world of Utopia there is no meat. There used to be. But now we cannot stand the tho...

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These folk are hewers of trees and hunters of beasts; therefore we are their unfriends, and if they ...

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A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk.

Mr Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls. He liked thick giblet soup, n...

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We are not encouraged, on a daily basis, to pay careful attention to the animals we eat. On the cont...

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Jeffrey Moussaieff MassonThe Face on Your Plate: The Truth About Food

The Chinese food arrives. Delicious saliva fills his mouth. He really hasn't had any since Texas. He...

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Needless to say, jamming deformed, drugged, overstressed birds together in a filthy, waste-coated ro...

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Elsewhere the paper notes that vegetarians and vegans (including athletes) 'meet and exceed requirem...

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Today, it isn't unusual for meat to travel almost halfway around the globe to reach your supermarket...

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We need a better way to talk about eating animals. We need a way that brings meat to the center of p...

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Perhaps in the back of our minds we already understand, without all the science I've discussed, that...

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Not responding is a response--we are equally responsible for what we don't do. In the case of animal...

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Animals that we eat are raised for food in the most economical way possible, and the serious food pr...

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In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and even clothes, the discussion of fur is childis...

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How good it is when you have roast meat or suchlike foods before you, to impress on your mind that t...

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How good it is, when you have roast meat or suchlike foods before you, to impress on your mind that ...

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In any case I just cannot imagine attaching so much importance to any food or treat that I would gro...

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When you start with a necessary evil, and then over time the necessity passes away, what's left?

To the extent we push meat a little bit to the side and move vegetables to the center of our diet, w...

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Were the walls of our meat industry to become transparent, literally or even figuratively, we would ...

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Michael PollanThe Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

This for many people is what is most offensive about hunting—to some, disgusting: that it encourages...

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Michael PollanThe Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

Primarily I'm a meat man, although once in a while I toy with a few vegetables.

Whales are killed today to supply the limited demand for whale meat or to be used in pet foods or as...

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Some hae meat and canna eat,And some wad eat that want it,But we hae meat and we can eat,And sae the...

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Carnal embrace is the practice of throwing one's arms around a side of beef.

They are stupid, they are beasts, they are meat, they are death. I am talking simply but without any...

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Vaslav NijinskyThe Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky

To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is ...

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Anthony BourdainKitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

The women who inspired this play deserved to be smacked across the head with a meat ax and that, I f...

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I'll stop eating steak when you stop killing spiders." Absurdity: comparing cows to spiders. Arachni...

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Surgeons are a singular brotherhood, Adam. To us, people aren't sacred beings crafted in the Almight...

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Not eating meat is a decision, eating meat is an instinct.

I waited for him to come out. He didn't. I considered going in after him, but knew the fact that I h...

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Derrick JensenA Language Older Than Words