Marcus Samuelsson Quotes

I say peace begins on your plate.

Understand, when you eat meat, that something did die. You have an obligation to value it - not just the sirloin but also all those wonderful tough little bits.

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

We eat every day, and if we do it in a way that doesn't recognize value, it's contributing to the destruction of our culture and of agriculture. But if it's done with a focus and care, it can be a wonderful thing. It changes the quality of your life.

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.

Don't eat anything you aren't prepared to kill. Don't kill anything you aren't prepared to eat.

Food is the rare moral arena in which the ethical choice is generally the one more likely to make you groan with pleasure.

How we eat can change the world

I prefer to die rather than eat beef.

As a vegetarian eating a plateful of eggs, I found myself in this weird place where I didn't want to think about where those eggs came from. I didn't want to think about the treatment of the animals who produced those eggs. When I find myself trying not to think about things, it seems to me that I'm practicing avoidance.

I was a fairly strict vegetarian - I ate eggs and dairy products but nothing that would involve killing an animal to furnish the food on my plate.

I became vegan in 2006 when I started taking healthy eating seriously.

I've been vegan for over 20 years, but I started as a vegetarian and grew into veganism in between.

I've been plant-based my whole life.

My parents, along with my brother and sister, are vegetarians.

Almost went vegan, but no, I didn't go vegan.

Is it hard to be vegan? Absolutely not. It would be hard to not be vegan.

It's totally natural to me to be vegan.

I'm not a vegetarian, but while I don't want to defend it, I try to be mindful about the amount of animal products I consume. I eat a lot of vegan meals at home, and I'm okay with paying more for higher quality meat and eggs as a tax.

I stopped with the red meat, let go of turkey and chicken, and then I held onto fish. When we finished 'Wu-Tang Forever,' I felt like I evolved and completely dived into veganism.

My initial going into vegetarian was learning about eating healthy.

As far as being a vegetarian, it's a moral thing, a health thing, a conscious thing - a combination of all. I think it's better to be that way.

I try not to push veganism specifically. If I'm asked for my advice, I say just eat healthy.

I'm not going to comment on whether I support vegetarianism or non-vegetarianism; it's just that I feel I'm fit because I'm a vegetarian.