Food Source Quotes

Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul - chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth!

If you want to save a species, simply decide to eat it. Then it will be managed - like chickens, like turkeys, like deer, like Canadian geese.

The nature of human beings is to eat meat and fruits and vegetables, and therefore we have to kill animals. I don't have a problem with that. But it's a sacred moment. It's a gift of life.

Hunting will never feed lots of people; it will always be a hobby.

It's a good rule of thumb, it seems to me: if you're not allowed to see where something comes from, don't put it in your mouth.

We can try to reform healthcare, but the fact is if we don't have a healthy food source, we are only treating the symptoms and not the problems.

My father, OK, when we first got old enough to hunt, this was his rule: If you shoot it, you come home and eat it. Otherwise you do not shoot it, OK? You don't just kill something for the sake of killing it, OK? If you kill it, you gotta grill it, so to speak.

In the Bible it says God has made everything good for man to eat and to wear their skins. Whenever we eat beef, we eat chicken, we have to kill to eat. But at the same time, hunting is a sport. I think it is a great sport... I would say most hunters are Christian men.

We eat, therefore we hunt.

I dreamed: I am the fish whose flesh is eaten, and because I am fat, it is good.

Cats gravitate to kitchens like rocks gravitate to gravity.

We are what we eat, it is often said, but of course that's only part of the story. We are what what we eat eats too.

I think it's important for children to know where their food comes from and how much work it takes to produce the items we eat in our home.

Of all the everyday plants of the earth, grass is the least pretentious and the most important to mankind. It clothes the earth is an unmistakable way. Directly or indirectly it provides the bulk of man's food, his meat, his bread, every scrap of his cereal diet. Without grass we would all starve, we and all our animals. And what a dismal place this world would be!

A lot of money could be saved if we ate urban wildlife.

And Sam Vimes thought: Why is Young Sam's nursery full of farmyard animals anyway? Why are his books full of moo-cows and baa-lambs? He is growing up in the city. He will only see them on a plate! They go sizzle!

If you eat, you should be concerned about the people who are providing you with food.

I am happy to see that, increasingly, people care about farm workers. There is tremendous interest in where and how our food is grown.

If it grows, eat it. If it doesn't grow, don't eat it.

Eating more consciously now feels like a way of being. I actually think about how my food got to my plate.

Much the way I want to know if my food is farm-raised, or wild, or if my orange juice is fresh or from concentrate. I also believe I have the right, and we as Americans all have the right to know what's in our food.

A cat cares for you only as a source of food, security and a place in the sun.

I always say that environment always affects the food.

Vegtables, what food eats before it becomes food.

Everything we eat begins with a plant turning solar energy into carbohydrates. Everything. Whether we're eating meat or eating vegetables, it all begins there. So I'm always interested in taking things back to the beginning.