Lisa Hanawalt Quotes

I go in the butchers and there's not a lot of meat I can eat these days, with having all the animals.

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.

I'm actually no longer a strict vegan. I don't hang out in the cheese section - I don't even eat cheese. I don't drink milk. But every once in a while I'll have an egg. I'm going to eat eggs that come out of my next-door neighbor's farm, that's just the way it is.

If people learned what they were contributing to every time they ate meat, eggs, or dairy, surely they would be just as motivated as I was to change.

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

I'm a bit of a dude. I like meat. But I am buying it more responsibly, where it's more sourced responsibly.

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

I stopped eating beef in high school, and in college I stopped eating poultry. I am not a huge fan of factory farming and what we're doing to animals. I try to eat as clean as possible because I want to know what I'm putting into my body.

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'm always active in trying to educate people when it comes to eating animal products, testing on animals, and the health benefits of being vegan, although I'm probably not the best person to be talking about the latter at the moment.

We're a 100-percent-organic house. My daughter is a vegetarian and practically vegan. That's her choice. That's how she eats. We're really conscious about what we buy.

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

I say peace begins on your plate.

I'm not telling people to go vegan overnight.

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.

At this point, I wouldn't be able to digest meat, and I don't like eating things with faces.

We need a better way to talk about eating animals, a way that doesn't ignore or even just shruggingly accept things like habits, cravings, family and history but rather incorporates them into the conversation. The more they are allowed in, the more able we will be to follow our best instincts.

We should eat less meat - all of us - and we should use less leather. I mean, that's reality.

People have their cultural reasons for eating meat, their traditional reasons, their likes and dislikes.

When it comes to meat, change is almost always cast as an absolute. You are a vegetarian or you are not.

Even as a child, I felt very guilty about eating animals and never knew that there was something to do about it. And as I got older, it became clearer that there are things that I can do and choices I can make.

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

Since we can't count on the meat, egg, and dairy industries to protect animals from the most egregious forms of cruelty, what can we, as consumers, do? Opting out of paying someone to allow animals to die in a barn fire or at the slaughterhouse seems pretty reasonable.

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