Carnivores Quotes

“We cut the throat of a calf and hang it up by the heels to bleed to death so that our veal cutlet may be white; we nail geese to a board and cram them with food because we like the taste of liver disease; we tear birds to pieces to decorate our women's hats; we mutilate domestic animals for no reason at all except to follow an instinctively cruel fashion; and we connive at the most abominable tortures in the hope of discovering some magical cure for our own diseases by them.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

“My favorite animal is steak.”
― Fran Lebowitz

“Meat isn't murder, it's delicious.”
― John Lydon

“An attraction to large predators often seems to be associated with misanthropy, racism and the far right.”
― George Monbiot

“To the one who does the butchering, eating will always be a sacrament. The flesh in the dome of your mouth, your flesh, this fallen world.”
― Susan Neville, The Town of Whispering Dolls: Stories

“This touches on the issue of how vegans should handle the caveman argument. Many of us are tempted to strain credulity and torture the evidence to ‘prove’ humans are ‘naturally’ vegan. This is a trap, and one into which carnists (especially paleo-dieters) would love us to fall; the evidence isn’t on our side. There’s no doubt that hominids ate meat.... The argument for veganism has always been primarily ethical, and ought to remain that way. It’s based on a concern for the future, not an obsession about the past.”
― Jack Norris

“Cats were not and are not tool makers the way humans became toolmakers. They are specifically adapted as obligate carnivores, This means the vegetarian cat is an oxymoron at best and a blatant lie at worst. Cats need meat. The concept of a Garden of Eden would be rather atrocious to them.”
― Leviak B. Kelly, Religion: The Ultimate STD: Living a Spiritual Life without Dogmatics or Cultural Destruction

“Amur Leopard

To knock our conscience
They won’t bang our doors
Like us they’re not silly, nonsense
They are the valorous carnivores”
― Munia Khan, The Half Circle

“And that's the point. Is the lioness who kills zebra cubs to feed her own cubs good or evil? Sure, the zebra will suffer for the death of her cubs, but the only alternative is for the lioness to see her own cubs die from hunger. The categories of good and evil blur because there are no vegetarian lions, right? In the animal world, when a choice is forced, judgment remains suspended. But what about humans?”
― Donato Carrisi, L'ipotesi del male