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"Several sellers of hot meat pies and sausages in a bun had appeared from nowhere and were doing a brisk trade. [Footnote: They always do, everywhere. No-one sees them arrive. The logical explaination is that the franchise includes the stall, the paper hat and a small gas-powered time machine.]"
"Because I love the taste of meat I am a reluctant but dedicated vegetarian."
"Dad could charm a dog off a meat wagon."
"The first show I ever saw was Meat Loaf, and it was on the Bat Out of Hell tour. Meat Loaf actually had a huge 20-foot bat behind him. Smoke came out of the bat's nose and his eyes glowed red - which is still one of the most mindblowing productions I've ever seen."
"The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it."
"Eating meat is the most disgusting thing I can think of. It's like biting into your grandmother."
"He is my dog, Toto," answered Dorothy. "Is he made of tin, or stuffed?" asked the Lion. "Neither. He's a-- a-- a meat dog," said the girl."
"Not eating meat really keeps me trim....meat, and what's usually served with it, is a big calorie packer."
"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."
"I can hardly eat meat because it has to look like something what it was not when it was alive."
"Things That Don't Matter When You've Lived the Same Day Six Times and Died on at Least Two of Them: Lunch meats and their relative coolness."
"I'm not strictly vegetarian, but meat doesn't play a big part in my diet."
"I'm a pescatarian - I don't even eat meat!"
"The person who is ignorant enough to believe that his nourishment depends on meat is in a horrible dilemma."
"You go into a hospital now, it's dangerous. We can get diseases that can't be dealt with, that are moving around the hospital. A lot of that traces back to industrial meat production. These are really serious threats, all over the place."
"Take pandemics. There could easily be a severe pandemic. A lot of that comes from something we don't pay much attention to: Eating meat. The meat production industry, the industrial production of meat, uses an immense amount of antibiotics.We're now running out of antibiotics that deal with the threat of rapidly mutating bacteria. A lot of that just comes from the meat production industry. Well, do we worry about it? Well, we ought to be."
"Industrial production of meat makes a huge contribution to global warming."
"...of whom I can say with a grateful heart, 'I was hungry, and he gave me meat; I was thirsty, and he gave me drink; I was a stranger, and he took me in.'"
"It is a solemn thought: dead, the noblest man's meat is inferior to pork."
"Prayer never brought in no side-meat. Takes a shoat to bring in pork."
