Eric Ripert Quotes

Every factory-farmed animal is, as a practice, treated in ways that would be illegal if it were a dog or a cat.

I have no doubt that President George W. Bush - a man, in my experience, of extremely kind and generous instincts, and back in Austin even a rescuer of stray animals - would be appalled by the conditions of a typical American factory farm or packing plant.

Each year, billions of animals are subjected to cruelty on factory farms, feed lots, and slaughterhouses. The brutality that these animals endure would be grounds for felony cruelty charges if inflicted upon our cats and dogs.

Factory farming, like comparable evils throughout history, depends for its existence upon concealment. It depends on people either not noticing or willfully averting their gaze.

Mary had a little lamb. And when she saw it stricken she shipped it off to Packingtown and now its labeled chicken.

I've always had issues with factory farming. That was always something that bothered me.

To the factory farmer, in contrast to the traditional farmer with his sense of honor and obligation, the animals are 'production units,' and accorded all the sympathy that term suggests.

I don't like to see animals in pain. That was very uncomfortable to me. I don't like factory farming. I'm not an advocate for the meat industry.

I became vegan because I saw footage of what really goes on in the slaughterhouses and on the dairy farms.

A 'farm' today means 100,000 chickens in a space the size of a Motel 6 shower stall.

Factory farming came about from a moral race to the bottom, with corporations vying against each other to produce more and bigger animals with less care at lower cost.

I have a tough stomach, and I've put myself through a lot. But when I first found out what happens to animals on modern factory farms and in today's slaughterhouses, I wanted to throw up - I literally couldn't believe it.

Animals used for food are treated like unfeeling machinery.

I don't want any more concentration camps for animals that are cruelly treated, force-fed to fatten themselves up for our consumption.

If you eat foie gras, I would really urge you to look at the practice that goes in to producing it. It is totally barbaric and involves force-feeding on the most horrific scale imaginable.

I think that if everyone knew how meat and dairy was being produced, they wouldn't eat it.

I really fought hard to bring that story to life on 'Total Divas,' the factory farming and free-range chicken. I'm shocked to see the positive response because you never know. People could be sensitive to certain things.

The factory farm is . . . an obvious moral evil so sickening and horrendous. . . All this so we can have our accustomed veal or lamb or fried chicken or pork chop or hot dog.

Our ability to factory farm animals is coldly psychopathic.

Chickens, cows, and pigs in factory farms spend their whole lives in filthy, cramped conditions, only to die a prolonged and painful death.

The more exposure people have to the realities of factory farming, the more we will see people rejecting it. It's already happening.

If you say no to cruel factory farm practices, only then will the government say yes to change.

I became a vegetarian after I became aware of factory farming and slaughterhouses and the torture and inhumane handling of all these animals.

But I think the majority of cows, and even more so chickens and pigs, are leading pretty miserable lives.

Consumers of meat, eggs and dairy products might well ask what they are supporting. Do farmers care about anyone but themselves? Can't anyone see the cow for the cheese?