Ethical Food Choices Quotes

Why...is the hunter who shoots a deer for venison subject to more criticism than the person who buys a ham at the supermarket? Overall, it is probably the intensively reared pig who has suffered more.

How we eat can change the world

Eating more consciously now feels like a way of being. I actually think about how my food got to my plate.

It will always be trendy to do the right thing with food.

I try not to push veganism specifically. If I'm asked for my advice, I say just eat healthy.

I love to cook. Very healthy eating. I don't eat meat, fish, or eggs. Nothing that had to die.I think there's something odd about eating another living anything.

Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.

One of the most irresponsible things we can do is eat in ignorance, without any awareness of what our eating is doing to the world or to other species.

I prefer my Mexican food to have a little bit of an animal that suffered a little bit. That's some of the best food.

I'm not completely vegan - my diet's probably about 80 percent plant based, but I do eat some meat. I try to know where everything comes from, though. And all bets are off if my husband and I go to a really great restaurant.

Food is the rare moral arena in which the ethical choice is generally the one more likely to make you groan with pleasure.

When we eat mindfully, we consume exactly what we need to keep our bodies, our minds, and the Earth healthy. When we practice like this, we reduce suffering for ourselves and for others.

The word vegetarian, I think, does a disservice because there are a lot of people who care but maybe don't care, or can't care in an ultimate way. If you think about environmentalism, nobody would ask, "Are you an environmentalist or not?" The question doesn't make any sense.

When you cook, you take a life. When you eat fish, or meat, you take a life. And you must be very respectful of the ingredients and that is very important.

You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.

If every American for one week refused to eat at a fast-food joint, it would bring concentrated animal feeding operations to their knees.