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We're predators; we don't eat meat because it's handy, we eat meat because we have a taste for blood.

If one of the arguments against eating meat is to do with cruelty and animal intelligence, then lab meat avoids that. There's also the environmental argument for 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.

It occurred to me that I just didn't see how I could go ahead and continue to eat meat. It just seemed so... cannibalistic to me. And so, I'm a vegetarian, and I have been ever since.

The only meat I eat is from animals I've killed myself.

People have their cultural reasons for eating meat, their traditional reasons, their likes and dislikes.

I enjoy meat, but I can do without it.

When it comes to meat, change is almost always cast as an absolute. You are a vegetarian or you are not.

I have made my own choice, which is vegetarianism, but it's not the choice I'm imposing on anybody else.

I prefer to die rather than eat beef.