Pim Fortuyn Quotes

If you're buying animal products and can go to the farm and actually see how the animals are looked after, yes, that's an important point. That's definitely the best way of assuring yourself that the animals are being well treated.

The pig is not just pork chops and bacon and ham to us. The pig is a co-laborer in this great land-healing ministry.

'Cost-saver' in industrial livestock agriculture may usually be taken to mean 'moral shortcut.'

I like animals, I really do, but some animals are just meant to be eaten.

You know, in our culture today, our Western, reductionist, Roman, linear, fragmented... culture, we don't ask how to make a pig happy. We ask how to grow it faster, fatter, bigger, cheaper, and that's not a noble goal.

When you meet the farmers and go to the farms, you see that they treat their animals like they're family. It makes a big difference.

Our motto is we respect and honour the pigness of the pig and the chickenness of the chicken. That means not confining them in a house with hundreds of others.

Every factory-farmed animal is, as a practice, treated in ways that would be illegal if it were a dog or a cat.

Consumers of meat, eggs and dairy products might well ask what they are supporting. Do farmers care about anyone but themselves? Can't anyone see the cow for the cheese?

McDonald's says it's phasing out pig gestation crates. When I heard that news, I almost started crying.

I have no problem with people eating meat. I would just like it, for the people who do eat meat, for the animals to be treated better. To be treated humanely. Cows in pastures living the life that they're supposed to live. I have no problem with that.

Shelters, conservationists, those concerned about unnecessary cruelty toward the animals we eat, and people working against species extinction fight to preserve the true riches of our planet, our real inheritance. These are big, critical goals.

I won't eat veal, and my mum won't eat lamb, because she thinks it's a bit harsh to eat cute things.

In most of the world, it is accepted that if animals are to be killed for food, they should be killed without suffering.

I'll never stop eating animals, I'm sure, but I do think that for the benefit of everyone, the time has come to stop raising them industrially and stop eating them thoughtlessly.

I'm sorry for the ducks; I love foie gras.

I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.

I joined PETA for minks and dogs. I need my beef, my chicken, my seafood.

Our culture doesn't ask about preserving the essence of pig; it just asks how can we grow them faster, fatter, bigger, and cheaper. We know that's not a noble goal.

I have always been an animal lover. I had a hard time disassociating the animals I cuddled with - dogs and cats, for example - from the animals on my plate, and I never really cared for the taste of meat. I always loved my Brussels sprouts.

The producers of 'The Hobbit' take the welfare of all animals very seriously and have always pursued the highest standard of care for animals in their charge.

I guess in general, people tend to not eat the cute animals.

Animals were my pets, and the thought of eating my pets freaked me out.

We need to respect the fact that cows are herbivores, and that does not mean feeding them corn and chicken manure.

We had a small farm growing up. It was my grandfather's farm, and we didn't torture the animals, and we didn't feed them stuff we wouldn't eat.