Christien Meindertsma Quotes

The meat and poultry industries are outstanding industries, and it's going to be a very natural fit for me.

Animals that we eat are raised for food in the most economical way possible, and the serious food producers do it in the most humane way possible. I think anyone who is a carnivore needs to understand that meat does not originally come in these neat little packages.

In the Netherlands - where I come from - you actually never see a pig, which is really strange, because, in a population of 16 million people, we have 12 million pigs. And well, of course, the Dutch can't eat all these pigs. They eat about one-third, and the rest is exported to all kinds of countries in Europe and the rest of the world.

We all buy our meat wrapped in plastic because we don't like to think about the animal that died.

I didn't work on the killing floor. I worked in the section where you break the meat down and package it.

If you eat a chicken wing or a chicken tender in some parts of the country, I probably supplied it.

The emergence and spread of virulent strains of avian influenza has been attributed by experts to the intensely overcrowded, unsanitary, and stressful conditions that often characterize large-scale factory farming in industrialized agriculture.

Our cattlemen have given us the safest, most abundant, most affordable beef supply in the world and I trust their judgment. And if you look at consumer confidence in this country, so does the American public.

To butcher a pork shoulder is to be forcibly reminded that this is the shoulder of a large mammal, made up of distinct groups of muscles with a purpose quite apart from feeding me. The work itself gives me a keener interest in the story of the hog: where it came from and how it found its way to my kitchen.

America's ranchers and farmers produce the highest-quality products in the world.

I grew up on a pig farm, about 2,500 pigs - we had way more pigs than people.

Farmers in Iowa know that I've been out there, and manufacturers, fighting for them every single day.

The short, unhappy life of a corn-fed feedlot steer represents the ultimate triumph of industrial thinking over the logic of evolution.

In The Land of the Pig, The Butcher Is King

I keep endlessly busy with all kinds of stuff, mostly horses, cattle, livestock, things like that.

I hope people will learn more about agriculture in America. About locally grown farming and about water conservation. About how much pollution results from beef and pig farming.

Evolution has made us omnivores, and substantial quantities of meat can be produced by feeding plant matter whose production does not directly compete with growing food crops: crop residues, food processing waste, low-quality grain, and controlled grazing by ruminants.

By cutting the red tape that comes out of Brussels, we will free our farmers to grow more, sell more, and export more great British food whilst upholding our high standards for plant and animal health and welfare.

I've learned so much about what you can do to help animals, the environmental issues around meat production.

Meat consumption is a part of our evolutionary heritage; meat production has been a major component of modern food systems. Carnivory should remain, within limits, an important component of a civilization that finally must learn how to maintain the integrity of its only biosphere.

We like horses and we like dogs and we like to be in the midst of agriculture.

The best sheep breeders are in Australia and New Zealand.

I learned to have a respect for animals and for the people who deal with them - vets and farmers.

Hunting really divides people in Britain. We keep pets, and we name our animals, but we're not too worried about industrial hunting practices.

I think that if everyone knew how meat and dairy was being produced, they wouldn't eat it.