"I am conscious that meat eatingis not in accordance with the finer feelings,and I abstain from it whenever I can."
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"Negative, I am a meat popsicle."
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"Do I believe in God? I did until Mother's accident. She fell on some meat loaf and it penetrated her spleen."
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"The aim of life was meat. Life itself was meat. Life lived on life. There were the eaters and the eaten. The law was: EAT OR BE EATEN. He did not formulate the law in clear, set terms and moralize about it. He did not even think the law; he merely lived the law without thinking about it at all."
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"To avoid causing terror to living beings, let the disciple refrain from eating meat."
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"If man were immortal, do you realize what his meat bills would be?"
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"Simple diet is best: for many dishes bring many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other."
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"It is nearly 50 years since I was assured by a conclave of doctors that if I did not eat meat I should die of starvation."
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"Today it is generally accepted that although the earliest humans probably ate some meat, it was unlikely to have played a major role in their diet. Plants would have been a much more important source of food."
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"Understand, when you eat meat, that something did die. You have an obligation to value it - not just the sirloin but also all those wonderful tough little bits."
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"When done right - or wrong, depending on how you look at it - deficits remove liberal options from the table. Suddenly there's no money for building bridges or inspecting meat. Not surprisingly, running up a deficit is a strategy favored by the wrecking crew for its liberal-killing properties."
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"Evolution is a process that never stops. Baboons who fail to exhibit moral behavior do not survive; they wind up as meat for leopards."
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"Meat is not agreeable to the wise: it has a nauseating odor, it causes a bad reputation, it is food for the carnivorous; I say this, Mahamati, it is not to be eaten."
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"My soul knows my meat is doing bad things, and is embarrassed. But my meat just keeps right on doing bad, dumb things."
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"If anyone wants to save the planet, all they have to do is just stop eating meat."
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"So I am living without fats, without meat, without fish, but am feeling quite well this way. It always seems to me that man was not born to be a carnivore."
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"It would be a sad situation if the bag was better than the meat wrapped in it."
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"To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living. Vegetarians are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit, an affront to all I stand for, the pure enjoyment of food."
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"A hungry dog believes in nothing but meat."
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"Since visiting the abatoirs of S. France I have stopped eating meat."
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