Peter Singer Quotes

The woman I am currently crazy about was a vegetarian for a year until I started dating her. As is the case with most vegetarians, she had never eaten properly prepared meat, only commercially packaged or otherwise abused flesh.

I do not see any reason why animals should be slaughtered to serve as human diet when there are so many substitutes. After all, man can live without meat.

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.

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

Once upon a time I did eat meat.

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

I know that as a vegan, I'm in a minority. People love their meat. It's up there with sugar and TV and maybe even coffee on the list of inalienable American rights.

I won't eat veal, and my mum won't eat lamb, because she thinks it's a bit harsh to eat cute things.

Cutting meat out of your diet is the best thing you can do for animals and your own health.

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.

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

Most people see a documentary about the meat industry and then they become a vegetarian for a week.

I joined PETA for minks and dogs. I need my beef, my chicken, my seafood.

Cheap meat is the problem. The answer is to replace meat recipes with vegan meals.

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

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

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.

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.

You can't record an album called 'Meat Is Murder' and slip out for a burger.

The people of the future will say, meat-eaters in disgust and regard us in the same way that we regard cannibals and cannibalism.

Meat is expensive. And who said you have to eat meat every single day! Eat eggplant!

Nobody doesn't like meat.

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.