Jason Reitman Quotes

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.

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.

Once upon a time I did eat meat.

I have been vociferous against government on things like beef. I used to eat beef, but I've stopped. That doesn't mean others shouldn't eat beef.

You can't make people change, but the organizers of WorldFest hope that people consider being vegetarian for both moral and health reasons.

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

Not eating meat is a decision, eating meat is an instinct.

Being vegan for me is a cleaner way of not participating in practices that don't align with my values.

I grew up in a little town in east Texas where it was really not on the table to question certain things like whether you should eat meat or not.

I realised what goes on in the egg industry and the dairy industry, so then I was like, 'That's it! Going vegan!' and I just kind of went cold turkey, basically.

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

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.

For years, I've felt an obligation to harvest an animal, since all my life I've so mindlessly consumed them. But that was from the safety of my desk.

I don't go around lecturing people and telling them they shouldn't eat meat. I just don't think that's terribly effective. I just try to tell people how I have personally benefitted from the vegan lifestyle.

As I got older and more educated about things like chemicals in food and how beef is processed, I simply stopped eating certain things because it felt like the right thing to do.

I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.

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.

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

In vast parts of the world, people don't eat meat.

There's so many issues tied to the meat industry. I mean, social, environmental, humanitarian - all of them. I know that when I'm eating that I'm not hurting the planet, I'm not hurting other people on this planet, I'm not hurting animals... and I'm not hurting nature.

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

I became vegetarian after 'Meat is Murder' in 1985.

We should propagate the values of vegetarianism.

Don't even get me started. I'm not against all vegetarians. But if you're a vegetarian for ethical reasons, you may be causing more harm.

The more I read and watched about the meat industry, the more determined I became to keep meat out of my diet. The things I saw in slaughterhouse exposes made me feel sick and I refused to just ignore what I now knew.