Al Yankovic Quotes

Way back in the 1970s, I was eating a steak, and I looked down, and for the first time it suddenly looked like flesh to me - like a dead creature. In a flash, I realized that every time I ate any kind of meat, something had been killed for me, and I stopped eating all animals, not just cows and pigs but chickens and fish.

If you knew how meat was made, you'd probably lose your lunch.

I had an experience in a restaurant one time where there was a large trolley with beef being carved up, and I just transposed different images onto it. Like, what if there was a nice little cow there with a bowtie and a knife carving up humans. I was a vegetarian for a couple of years after that.

If we each had to butcher our own meat, there would be a great increase in the number of vegetarians.

Once you kill a cow, you gotta make a burger

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

One of the jobs I had was cutting out the blood clots on a side of beef.

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

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

I would much rather devour a piece of well-seasoned squash than a slice of an animal's rotting carcass.

I was not put on this earth to listen to meat!

In all the round world there is no meat. There used to be. But now we cannot stand the thought of slaughterhouses.

My wife Kimora once told me while we were watching "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" that it's a vegetarian movie because the way that the woman was screaming, "Aaaahhh," and trying to run away is how every animal you eat reacted at the slaughterhouse.

Years ago on the set of Gunsmoke I read the book The Holy Science. Since then I have not eaten meat.

I'm really glad my food comes murdered.

I stopped eating meat about six years ago, when I was working on the movie Selena. During the shoot, I had to hold a chicken for five hours-if you hold it and feel its little heart beating for hours, you just can't think about eating it.

We are already eating less animal foods since a few years ago, but we are still eating 8-9 billion animals per year.

When I was 9 or 10 years old, my dad took me over to a neighboring farm to help get stuff for the meal. The farmer, Vic, told me to look at all the turkeys and pick one out. I saw a cute one with a silly walk and cried, 'Him!' Before my pointing finger had even dropped to my side, Vic had grabbed the turkey by the neck and slit [the animal's] throat. Blood and feathers went flying. I had sentenced that turkey to death! Up until then, I didn't know where meat came from—and I've been a vegetarian ever since.

On going vegetarian." I was sitting here eating my plate of chicken salad, and suddenly I looked down and saw all the meat on my plate and just wasn't hungry anymore. So i've decided I'm not going to eat meat."

I stopped eating beef at 13 and stopped eating all meat a few years ago. I would feel guilty that what was on my plate was walking around yesterday. Either I could live with that or stop eating meat. I choose the latter, and I'm happier for it.

There doesn't seem like there should be an artful way to butcher a cow, but there is, and this is not it.

I venture to maintain that there are multitudes to whom the necessity of discharging the duties of a butcher would be so inexpressibly painful and revolting, that if they could obtain a flesh diet on no other condition, they would relinquish it forever.

I wouldn't touch a hot dog unless you put a condom on it! You realize that the job of a hot dog is to use parts of the animal that the Chinese can't figure out how to make into a belt?

I grew up in cattle country-that's why I became a vegetarian. Meat stinks, for the animals, the environment, and your health.

No amount of false propaganda can sanitize meat.