Susanna Thompson Quotes

I'm crazy about ducks and swans and geese, so I don't eat foie gras. I try to eat organic.

One hates to be absolute, but in my view, there is no such thing as humane meat.

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

I eat meat, but no meat that isn't pastured is acceptable, and we probably need to eat a whole lot less.

I became a vegetarian in 1995. I had some fried chicken, and my teeth hit the bone. My mind said, 'Dead bird, dead bird.' It didn't feel right, so I stopped. I kept eating fish until one day, in 1997, the chef brought my ginger-fried snapper with the head still on it.

Once upon a time I did eat meat.

If a kid ever realized what was involved in factory farming, they would never touch meat again.

As long as man eats animals how can cruelty to animals be removed.

You can't really call yourself an environmentalist if you're still consuming animals. You just can't.

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

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

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.

If slaughterhouses had glass walls the whole world would be vegetarian.

If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.

The kind of funny irony is that a lot of people talk about ethical meat eating as if it's a way to care about things, but also not to alienate yourself from the rest of the world. But it's so much more alienating than vegetarianism.

I only eat meat if I go to a nice restaurant and there is an exceptional dish, or if I'm at somebody's home for a dinner, I'll eat whatever is in front of me. Otherwise, I don't eat anything that walks around and has a face.

I can hardly eat meat because it has to look like something what it was not when it was alive.

I became a vegetarian at 15. I was always an animal lover and, as a teenager, became increasingly uncomfortable with the idea of eating meat. It was then that I started to research vegetarianism.

Everybody thinks people who promote PETA don't eat meat, but I think animals were made to be eaten.

When I was 12, I first made the decision to go vegetarian after a co-star's line 'I don't eat anything with a face' suddenly shocked me into reality.

People eat duck and you think, well, we've got loads of chickens, leave the ducks alone!

I know lots and lots and lots of vegetarians who think it's perfectly all right to kill animals for food to eat, but don't do it because they think all the ways in which it's done are wrong.

The woman I am currently crazy about was a vegetarian for a year until I started dating her. As is the case with most vegetarians, she had never eaten properly prepared meat, only commercially packaged or otherwise abused flesh.

Obviously, if I'm in Argentina, I'm going to have a steak, but I don't love meat, really. I always think about where the food came from and who had to get it.

I was raised vegan. My mom would always make quinoa with squash and kale, hippie stuff like that. Now I eat meat, but I try to be conscious about where it's coming from.