Jamie Oliver Quotes

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

I'm not really vegan. I'm vegan-ish. I have a piece of lamb every now and then.

I'm so trying to give up meat.

I am a vegetarian.

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.

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.

I wasn't raised a vegetarian. I wish I was, though. I mean, that's really the best way to go. I just learned at a young age and stopped eating some things.

You can't really call yourself an environmentalist if you're still consuming animals. You just can't.

I try to only eat animals that are vegan. I'm probably the opposite of a vegan.

A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.

I'm not telling people to go vegan overnight.

People should try eating no animal products for just ONE DAY a week.

I'm not a vegetarian.

One has got to choose between the two evils, also between the lesser of the two evils in the matter of food, and therefore vegetarian food has got to he taken by man in order to sustain human life.

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.

In terms of personal choices, let's all think more carefully about where we get our protein from.

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

It is all very well for 2% of the population to live in a monastic state of meatlessness while everyone else gorges their way towards environmental meltdown or the nearest heart clinic. Vegetarianism is good for the willing minority, but not much use as a campaign tool.

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.

I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight.

Vegetarians are cool. All I eat are vegetarians - except for the occasional mountain lion steak.

My wife is a vegetarian. When my wife is with me, I eat vegetarian. When she's not, I eat meat. I'm just being honest.

I eat mostly vegetarian. I love meat, but I think it should be enjoyed on occasion - like cheesecake or blackouts.