{"quotes":[{"text":"I am sitting here at thirty-six feeling like I am responsible for the holocaust for all that is toxic and wrong. Maybe it’s because I eat meat, and I stepped on three ants last Tuesday.","author":"Amber Garibay","tags":["feelings-of-weakness","guilt","holocaust","karma","meat","responsible","toxic","tuesday","wrong"],"id":512,"author_id":"Amber+Garibay"},{"text":"The less one knows about meat, the more one is able to enjoy it. Meat tastes wonderful, of course, but as with the lad hawking hard-to-find wares at unbelievable prices, it’s best not to ask too many questions.","author":"Brian South","tags":["horror","humor","meat","zombies"],"id":3951,"author_id":"Brian+South"},{"text":"Perhaps in the back of our minds we already understand, without all the science I've discussed, that something terribly wrong is happening. Our sustenance now comes from misery. We know that if someone offers to show us a film on how our meat is produced, it will be a horror film. We perhaps know more than we care to admit, keeping it down in the dark places of our memory-- disavowed. When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.","author":"Jonathan Safran Foer","tags":["animals","factory-farming","meat","science","veganism","vegetarianism"],"id":5445,"author_id":"Jonathan+Safran+Foer"},{"text":"Confronted with the problems that characterize our herding culture, we are perhaps like the metaphorical man wounded by an arrow that the Buddha discussed with his students. He said that the man would be foolish if he tried to discover who shot the arrow, why he shot it, where he was when he shot it, and so forth, before having the arrow removed and the wound treated, lest he bleed to death attempting to get his questions answered. We, likewise, can all remove the arrow and treat the wound of eating animal foods right now. We don't need to know the whole history. We can easily see it is cruel and that it is unnecessary; whatever people have done in the past, we are not obligated to imitate them if it is based on delusion. Perhaps in the past people thought they needed to enslave animals and people to survive, and that the cruelty involved in it was somehow allowed them. It's obviously not necessary for us today, as we can plainly see by walking into any grocery store, and the sooner we can awaken from the thrall of the obsolete mythos that we are predatory by nature, the sooner we'll be able to evolve spiritually and discover and fulfill our purpose on this earth.","author":"Will Tuttle","tags":["animals","carnism","eating","eating-animals","food","history","meat"],"id":26404,"author_id":"Will+Tuttle"},{"text":"My favorite animal is steak.","author":"Fran Lebowitz","tags":["animals","carnivores","eating","food","meat","steak"],"id":49562,"author_id":"Fran+Lebowitz"},{"text":"I'll stop eating steak when you stop killing spiders.' Absurdity: comparing cows to spiders. Arachnids are pure evil. They're like a cigarette manufacturer or a terrorist. They're organized religion on eight legs.","author":"Davey Havok","tags":["arachnid","arachnids","bugs","cows","death","debate","insects","meat","murder","religion","spider","spiders","steak","vegan","vegetarian"],"id":51261,"author_id":"Davey+Havok"},{"text":"It was machines that scanned the heavens, machines that probed the space between atoms, machines that asked the questions and designed to experiments to answer them. All that was left for mere meat, apparently, was navel-gazing.","author":"Peter Watts","tags":["machines","meat","questions"],"id":53729,"author_id":"Peter+Watts"},{"text":"The clock sweats out each minuteof what meat is left to us.","author":"Joseph Bathanti","tags":["clock","meat","sweat","time","wrestling-practice"],"id":64962,"author_id":"Joseph+Bathanti"},{"text":"Mind you, the effectiveness of one hunter’s gun does not determine the number of bush meats the other hunter will kill. You got to be yourself. Be you.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["animal","be-you","be-yourself","bush","bush-meats","determine","effect","effective","effectiveness","food-for-thought","game","games","gun","hunter","israelmore-ayivor","kill","meat","mind","mind-you","number","shot","unique"],"id":74710,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"We are not just a piece of meat which was born like an animal.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["animal","goal","life","meat","purpose"],"id":77934,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":87,"pages":9,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}