Anthony Bourdain Quotes

I try to only eat animals that are vegan. I'm probably the opposite of a vegan.

I know that as a vegan, I'm in a minority. People love their meat. It's up there with sugar and TV and maybe even coffee on the list of inalienable American rights.

It occurred to me that I just didn't see how I could go ahead and continue to eat meat. It just seemed so... cannibalistic to me. And so, I'm a vegetarian, and I have been ever since.

I didn't think I'd ever eat pork; it just does not appeal to me.

I don't feel I have the right to snuff the lives of chicken and fish.

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

One can quite understand vegetarianism. One can quite understand meat-eating. But it is difficult to understand why a person who is a flesh-eater should object to one kind of flesh, namely cow's flesh. This is an anomaly which call for explanation.

These days, I'm a hypocritical, philosophical vegetarian. Vegetarianism would be the right choice, but I really, really love meat.

'Vegetarian' is a slippery word. I don't eat cheese, I don't eat duck - the point is I'm vegan.

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.

Stop being a vegan and start enjoying what you eat.

A vegetarian is a person who won't eat anything that can have children.

A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.

I run into a lot of people who are instantly filled with ridicule at the idea that someone wouldn't eat meat.

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

I'm not really vegan. I'm vegan-ish. I have a piece of lamb every now and then.

I've always been opposed to slaughtering, eating, and wearing carcasses.

I've been a vegetarian since I was 19.

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

I'm not a true vegan.

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

There really is no ethical difference between eating a cat or a chicken, a dog or a pig.

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

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.