We're predators; we don't eat meat because it's handy, we eat meat because we have a taste for blood.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Not eating meat is a decision, eating meat is an instinct.
People have their cultural reasons for eating meat, their traditional reasons, their likes and dislikes.
The main point for me is moral; animals are sentient beings. I know for some this is a hard argument to accept, but we're not built to eat a lot of meat.
Flesh-meats will depreciate the blood. Cook meat with spices, and eat it with rich cakes and pies, and you have a bad quality of blood.
The only meat I eat is from animals I've killed myself.
In vast parts of the world, people don't eat meat.
Animals that we eat are raised for food in the most economical way possible, and the serious food producers do it in the most humane way possible. I think anyone who is a carnivore needs to understand that meat does not originally come in these neat little packages.
Meat supplies a variety of nutrients - among them iron, zinc, and Vitamin B12 - that are not readily found in plants. We can survive without it; millions of vegetarians choose to do so, and billions of others have that choice imposed upon them by poverty.
I enjoy meat, but I can do without it.
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.
No opposing quotes found.