These meat quotes will inspire you. Meat is animal flesh that is eaten as food.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging meat quotes, meat sayings, and meat proverbs.
Best Meat Quotes
- “Were the walls of our meat industry to become transparent, literally or even figuratively, we would not long continue to raise, kill, and eat animals the way we do.” ~ Michael Pollan
- “The way you cut your meat reflects the way you live.” ~ Confucius
- “Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.” ~ Fran Lebowitz
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“The weak are meat the strong do eat.” ~ David Mitchell
- “We’ll meet the meat.” ~ Douglas Adams
- “I have known many meat eaters to be far more nonviolent than vegetarians.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
- “They claim red meat is bad for you. But I never saw a sick-looking tiger.” ~ Chi Chi Rodriguez
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“No matter how tough the meat may be, it’s going to be tender if you slice it thin enough.” ~ Guy Fieri
- “The eating of meat extinguishes the seed of Great Kindness.” ~ Gautama Buddha
- “I eat meat, the rarer the better.” ~ Dominique Swain
- “A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.” ~ William Shakespeare
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“It’s more useful to have knowledge about cuts of meat than a lot of money.” ~ Jacques Pepin
- “To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living.” ~ Anthony Bourdain
- “I would make a poor vegetarian because I adore meat.” ~ Britt Ekland
- “Recognize meat for what it really is: the antibiotic- and pesticide-laden corpse of a tortured animal.” ~ Ingrid Newkirk
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“Red meat is not bad for you. Now blue-green meat, that’s bad for you!” ~ Chi Chi Rodriguez
- “If we’re not supposed to eat animals, how come they’re made out of meat?” ~ Tom Snyder
- “Red wine is a great accompaniment to meat.” ~ Mario Lemieux
- “All normal people love meat. If I went to a barbeque and there was no meat, I would say ‘Yo Goober! Where’s the meat?’. I’m trying to impress people here Lisa. You don’t win friends with salad.” ~ Dan Castellaneta , Love meat quotes
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“If anyone wants to save the planet, all they have to do is just stop eating meat.” ~ Paul McCartney
- “Meat eaten without either mirth or music is ill of digestion.” ~ Walter Scott
- “A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.” ~ Leo Tolstoy
- “Love is not all; it is not meat nor drink.” ~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
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“Anger’s my meat. I sup upon myself,
And so shall starve with feeding.” ~ William Shakespeare
- “This is a message to all those out there who think that you need animal products to be fit and strong. Almost two years after becoming vegan I am stronger than ever before and I am still improving day by day. Don’t listen to those self proclaimed nutrition gurus and the supplement industry trying to tell you that you need meat, eggs and dairy to get enough protein. There are plenty of plant-based protein sources and your body is going to thank you for stopping feeding it with dead-food. Go vegan and feel the power!” ~ Patrik Baboumian
- “I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.” ~ Leonardo da Vinci
- “If there hadn’t been women we’d still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.” ~ Orson Welles
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“If I had to narrow my choice of meats down to one for the rest of my life, I am quite certain that meat would be pork.” ~ James Beard
- “It is only by softening and disguising dead flesh by culinary preparation that it is rendered susceptible of mastication or digestion, and that the sight of its bloody juices and raw horror does not excite intolerable loathing and disgust.” ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
- “After all meat is meat. I don’t understand why so many people are bithing about it. It’s very healthy and contains lots of vitamins” ~ Zach Braff
- “Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain; Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink.” ~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
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“I’m a meat girl and I just love having a beer.” ~ Jill Goodacre
- “Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory and the appetite is keen.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “You have to kill to survive. People have been doing it forever. I eat meat, and I eat fish. If I were on a deserted island I would need that to survive.” ~ Benicio Del Toro
- “Our food system takes abundant grain,which people can’t afford,and shrinks it into meat,which better-off people will pay for.” ~ Frances Moore Lappé
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“I shall become, I shall become a collector of me. And put meat on my soul.” ~ Sonia Sanchez
- “In 1968, I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry, and unhappy like we do.” ~ Cesar Chavez
- “Farm animals are far more aware and intelligent than we ever imagined and, despite having been bred as domestic slaves, they are individual beings in their own right. As such, they deserve our respect. And our help. Who will plead for them if we are silent? Thousands of people who say they ‘love’ animals sit down once or twice a day to enjoy the flesh of creatures who have been treated so with little respect and kindness just to make more meat.” ~ Jane Goodall
- “Eating meat is not your personal decision, any more than, you know, whether somebody beats their child is their personal decision.” ~ Bruce Friedrich
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“I think many cooks are afraid of undercooked meats. A good thermometer is a cook’s best friend.” ~ Emeril Lagasse
- “My view is that we stand up for treating the animals in a considerate way, for completely renouncing the eating of meat and also for speaking out against it. This is what I do myself. And in this way many a one becomes aware of a problem that was put forward so late.” ~ Albert Schweitzer
- “Without guilt / What is a man? An animal, isn’t he? / A wolf forgiven at his meat, / A beetle innocent in his copulation.” ~ Archibald MacLeish
- “Pity is for this life, pity is the worm inside the meat, pity is the meat, pity is the shaking pencil, pity is the shaking voice– not enough money, not enough love–pity for all of us–it is our grace, walking down the ramp or on the moving sidewalk, sitting in a chair, reading the paper, pity, turning a leaf to the light, arranging a thorn.” ~ Jane Austen
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“That which chiefly causes the failure of a dinner-party, is the running short–not of meat, nor yet of drink, but of conversation.” ~ Lewis Carroll
- “A human can be healthy without killing animals for food.” ~ Leo Tolstoy
- “At a time when 20% of people in the US go to bed hungry each night and almost 50% of the world’s population is malnourished, choosing to eat more plant-based foods and less red meat is better for all of us-ourselves, our loved ones, and our planet.” ~ Dean Ornish
- “Go vegetable-heavy. Reverse the psychology of your plate by making meat the side dish and vegetables the main course.” ~ Bobby Flay
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“Bologna is a deli meat for people with eyes.” ~ Mitch Hedberg
- “He’d been numb a long time, years. All his nights down Ninsei, his nights with Linda, numb in bed and numb at the cold sweating center of every drug deal. But now he’d found this warm thing, this chip of murder. Meat, some part of him said. It’s the meat talking, ignore it.” ~ William Gibson
- “When I travel around the world, I see that poor countries sell their grain to the West while their own children starve in their arms. And we feed it to livestock. So we can eat a steak? Am I the only one who sees this as a crime? Every morsel of meat we eat is slapping the tear-stained face of a starving child. When I look into her eyes, should I be silent? The Earth can produce enough for everyone’s need. But not enough for everyone’s greed.” ~ Philip Wollen
- “I dislike the thought that some animal has been made miserable to feed me. If I am going to eat meat, I want it to be from an animal that has lived a pleasant, uncrowded life outdoors, on bountiful pasture, with good water nearby and trees for shade.” ~ Wendell Berry
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“Cooking meat over a fire is one of the most stirring of those ritual acts, usually performed outdoors, on special occasions, in public, and by men.” ~ Michael Pollan
- “I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry and unhappy like we do. I feel very deeply about vegetarianism and the animal kingdom. It was my dog Boycott who led me to question the right of humans to eat other sentient beings.” ~ Cesar Chavez
- “Eating too much meat gives you indigestion and evil thoughts make you eat too much meat.” ~ Gertrude Stein
- “Tis not the meat, but ’tis the appetite makes eating a delight.” ~ John Suckling
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“Health and appetite impart the sweetness to sugar, bread and meat.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “It’s harder to eat meat when you know the animal’s name…I have found.” ~ Jon Stewart
- “A vegan riding a hummer contributes less to greenhouse gas emissions than a meat eater riding a bicycle.” ~ Paul Watson
- “Please eat less meat – meat is a very carbon-intensive commodity.” ~ Rajendra K. Pachauri
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“What is meat for one is not for another–no accounting for fancy.” ~ Abigail Adams
- “I am Tarzan of the Apes. I want you. I am yours. You are mine. We live here together always in my house. I will bring you the best of fruits, the tenderest deer, the finest meats that roam the jungle. I will hunt for you. I am the greatest of the jungle fighters. I will fight for you. I am the mightiest of the jungle fighters. You are Jane Porter, I saw it in your letter. When you see this you will know that it is for you and that Tarzan of the Apes loves you.” ~ Edgar Rice Burroughs
- “I love to smoke. I love to eat red meat. I’ll only eat red meat that comes from cows who smoke, ok!? Special cows they grow in Virginia with voice boxes in their necks. “Moo”” ~ Denis Leary
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“I have one last request. Don’t use embalming fluid on me; I want to be stuffed with crab meat.” ~ Woody Allen
- “An instant-read thermometer is your best bet for making sure that meat and fish are cooked to the proper temperature.” ~ Bobby Flay
- “Ongoing vegetarian.” I was sitting here eating my plate of chicken salad, and suddenly I looked down and saw all the meat on my plate and just wasn’t hungry anymore. So I’ve decided I’m not going to eat meat.”” ~ Shiri Appleby
Biased much? Meat for ever.