Brie Bella Quotes

I have a tough stomach, and I've put myself through a lot. But when I first found out what happens to animals on modern factory farms and in today's slaughterhouses, I wanted to throw up - I literally couldn't believe it.

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?

I've always had issues with factory farming. That was always something that bothered me.

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

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

I don't like to see animals in pain. That was very uncomfortable to me. I don't like factory farming. I'm not an advocate for the meat industry.

Each year, billions of animals are subjected to cruelty on factory farms, feed lots, and slaughterhouses. The brutality that these animals endure would be grounds for felony cruelty charges if inflicted upon our cats and dogs.

Ninety-five percent of the eggs produced in America come from factory-farmed birds. Even if free-range farms were hugely more humane, the sheer number of animals raised to satisfy people's desire for eggs, meat, and milk makes it impossible for us to raise them all on small, free-range farms.

I drove through the stockyards of Texas on a motorcycle. It doesn't let you escape what surrounds you and what it smells like and feels like - and what hit me was the realization that something that was alive and had feelings will suffer before a piece of it is placed on our plates.

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

Factory farming's evil; you know that.

The more I read and watched about the meat industry, the more determined I became to keep meat out of my diet. The things I saw in slaughterhouse exposes made me feel sick and I refused to just ignore what I now knew.

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

Mary had a little lamb. And when she saw it stricken she shipped it off to Packingtown and now its labeled chicken.

To the factory farmer, in contrast to the traditional farmer with his sense of honor and obligation, the animals are 'production units,' and accorded all the sympathy that term suggests.

The more exposure people have to the realities of factory farming, the more we will see people rejecting it. It's already happening.

If you say no to cruel factory farm practices, only then will the government say yes to change.

I became vegan because I saw footage of what really goes on in the slaughterhouses and on the dairy farms.

I became a vegetarian after I became aware of factory farming and slaughterhouses and the torture and inhumane handling of all these animals.

I haven't touched a piece of meat since I read a graphic description of Chicago's slaughterhouses when I was 12.

I'm very touched on a deep level by cruelty to animals.

A 'farm' today means 100,000 chickens in a space the size of a Motel 6 shower stall.

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

I have no doubt that President George W. Bush - a man, in my experience, of extremely kind and generous instincts, and back in Austin even a rescuer of stray animals - would be appalled by the conditions of a typical American factory farm or packing plant.

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