Carnivorous Behavior Quotes

Nature, red in tooth and claw.

It seems strange that bears, so fond of all sorts of flesh, running the risks of guns and fires and poison, should never attack men except in defense of their young. How easily and safely a bear could pick us up as we lie asleep! Only wolves and tigers seem to have learned to hunt man for food, and perhaps sharks and crocodiles.

The wolfe eats oft of the sheep that have been warn'd.

Do let's pretend that I'm a hungry hyena, and you're a bone!

A hungry dog hunts best.

I eat meat because meat tastes like murder, and murder tastes pretty dam good!

A hungry dog hunts best. A hungrier dog hunts even better.

Such is the condition of organic nature! whose first law might be expressed in the words 'Eat or be eaten!' and which would seem to be one great slaughter-house, one universal scene of rapacity and injustice!

...to kill animals for the purpose of feeding on their flesh is one of the most deplorable and shameful infirmities of the human state

I did not climb to the top of the food chain to eat carrots.

In order to get meat, we have to kill. And we are certainly not entitled to any other milk except the mother's milk in our infancy.

That's what the cat said to the canary when he swallowed him - 'You'll be all right.'

Man and the animals are merely a passage and channel for food, a tomb for other animals, a haven for the dead, giving life by the death of others, a coffer full of corruption.

In the grand scheme of nature, I believe that it is very natural that animals eat animals, and that humans eat animals. It is only in the last couple of decades that meat-processing factories have come to rise, and I believe we should take time to reflect on that reality.

Beasts feed. Man eats. Only the man of intellect knows how to eat.

The wolves prey upon the lambs in the darkness of the night, but the blood stains remain upon the stones in the valley until the dawn comes, and the sun reveals the crime to all.

No member of the animal kingdom nurses past maturity, no member of the animal kingdom ever did a thing to me. Its why I don't eat red meat or white fish, don't give me no blue cheese. Were all members of the animal kingdom, leave your brothers and sisters in the sea.

Life eats life to live.

Now don't get me wrong, I love animals, but I like eatin' 'em more... fun to pet, better to chew.

At the bottom of all these noble races the beast of prey, the splendid blond beast, prowling about avidly in search of spoil and victory.

Oh! how foul a thing, that we should see the tongue of one animal in the guts of another.

Wolves which batten upon lambs, lambs consumed by wolves, the strong who immolate the weak, the weak victims of the strong: there you have Nature, there you have her intentions, there you have her scheme: a perpetual action and reaction, a host of vices, a host of virtues, in one word, a perfect equilibrium resulting from the equality of good and evil on earth.

I say, if you're going to eat a creature alive, you have to expect some screaming. That is the carnivore's burden.

Chimpanzees will eat a little bit of meat. But, they never eat dairy products, and no other animal would do that.

Ah, come now. I look like an angel, but I'm not. The old rules of nature encompass many creatures like me. We're beautiful like the diamond-backed snake, or the striped tiger, yet we're merciless killers