Jacque Fresco Quotes

Primarily I'm a meat man, although once in a while I toy with a few vegetables.

The consumption of vegetables involves himsa, but I cannot give them up.

Well, we became a vegetarian. But that didn't last very long, because, um, I don't like vegetables. Or salad, nothing like that!

I like some vegetables.

I wasn't raised in any way where I was forced to be a vegetarian, too. I always had the choice. My mom would say, 'I don't eat the stuff, so I won't cook it, but if you want to eat it, you can. Let me tell you why I don't eat it.' So she was open about it.

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.

Once upon a time I did eat meat.

I don't eat vegetables. I eat potatoes and green beans, and that's it.

There is so much more vegetable use in Thailand, India and China than meat. Yes, when you go to the markets or buy street food, you see shrimp or chicken - but mostly vegetables.

I make sure to consume plenty of vegetables every day. Vegetables keep you very full, and I'm also a vegetarian, but yeah, they keep you extremely full, so you're not hungry, and you always feel satisfied.

Economic policy is like business - it's all about compromise.

If vegetarians eat vegetables, what do humanitarians eat

Eating meat is the most disgusting thing I can think of. It's like biting into your grandmother.

Meat isn't murder, it's delicious.

If modern civilization man had to kill the animals he eats, the number of vegetarians would rise astronomically.

We stopped eating meat many years ago. During the course of a Sunday lunch we happened to look out of the kitchen window at our young lambs playing happily in the fields. Glancing down at our plates, we suddenly realized that we were eating the leg of an animal who had until recently been playing in a field herself. We looked at each other and said, "Wait a minute, we love these sheep-they're such gentle creatures. So why are we eating them?" It was the last time we ever did.

Whenever I'm about to eat meat I always see my little dog's eyes.

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.

Everyone in Life does Exactly what they Know How to Do Given the Conditions of their Lives

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

I was in a sushi bar and it dawned on me - how could I discriminate between a cow and a fish?

I think there will come a time when civilized people will look back in horror on our generation and the ones that have preceded it; the idea that we should eat other living things running around on four legs, that we should raise them just for the purpose of killing them! The people of the future will say 'meat-eaters' in disgust and regard us in the same way that we regard cannibals and cannibalism.

If you’re eating vegetables you are probably pushing unhealthier food out of your diet.

It almost seems to me that man was not born to be a carnivore.