Michael Specter Quotes

Beef is beef, you know. Beef comes, so Beef is real.

There is no meaningful distinction between eating flesh and eating dairy or other animal products. Animals exploited in the dairy industry live longer than those used for meat, but they are treated worse during their lives, and they end up in the same slaughterhouse after which we consume their flesh anyway. There is probably more suffering in a glass of milk or an ice cream cone than there is in a steak.

If you're buying animal products and can go to the farm and actually see how the animals are looked after, yes, that's an important point. That's definitely the best way of assuring yourself that the animals are being well treated.

And I like pygmy goats, because they're just lovely, and ducks.

Dogs and other animals - goats, donkeys, cows, a grumpy rooster - continue to change my writing life.

We have some goats, some chickens, and we used to have pigs. There used to be two ostriches as well, but they were a little bit violent, so we had to give them away. When we were little, we used to play with the goats all the time. We each had our own little goat, and we'd go and run around with them.

Meat reared on land matures relatively quickly, and it takes only a few pounds of plants to produce a pound of meat.

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

I've got four dogs, eight chickens, 10 sheep and six pigs.

We have two dogs, Mabel and Wolf, and three cats at home, Charlie, George and Chairman. We have two cats on our farm, Tom and Little Sister, two horses, and two mini horses, Hannah and Tricky. We also have two cows, Holy and Madonna. And those are only the animals we let sleep in our bed.

My dad, Donald, was a vet and had a practice in Yorkshire. Cats and dogs were his bread and butter, but his greatest love was large animals.

We have wild animals in zoos, yet people rarely meet their 'food' face to face.

I had a ton of animals; I had a goat growing up, a bunch of rabbits, a vegetable garden.

Buy a Pig. A properly cared for pig is no less clean than a pet dog.

To butcher a pork shoulder is to be forcibly reminded that this is the shoulder of a large mammal, made up of distinct groups of muscles with a purpose quite apart from feeding me. The work itself gives me a keener interest in the story of the hog: where it came from and how it found its way to my kitchen.

When I was growing up, we had cats, dogs, guinea pigs, rabbits, goats, chickens - a whole menagerie.

We all buy our meat wrapped in plastic because we don't like to think about the animal that died.

People have become so much more obsessed with the stories behind their food. When we go the market to buy bacon, we want to know where that pig came from and what processes were involved in getting it to us.

I've had pets my whole life, and I grew up with pigs and cows.

Now I've a sheep and a cow, every body bids me good morrow.

We like horses and we like dogs and we like to be in the midst of agriculture.

Animals are the main victims of history, and the treatment of domesticated animals in industrial farms is perhaps the worst crime in history.

I don't spend my time on farms. I don't like the smell, to be honest.

I came from Iowa, south central Iowa. It was a very rural area. I saw a lot more hogs growing up than I saw people.

I have no problem with people eating meat. I would just like it, for the people who do eat meat, for the animals to be treated better. To be treated humanely. Cows in pastures living the life that they're supposed to live. I have no problem with that.