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We are all meant to be naturalists, each in his own degree, and it is inexcusable to live in a world so full of the marvels of plant and animal life and to care for none of these things.
Kill?' I realized I could never properly explain that word to this creature toiling here in its garden. Had it ever eaten meat? Could it conjugate the verb 'hunt?
Animals eat one another without qualm; civilized men consume one another by due process of law. Co-operation
Pigs eat grass if they are very hungry, but they can't use it as a regular source of food.
I think the evidence is pretty clear. If you look at various characteristics of carnivores versus herbivores, it doesn't take a genius to see where humans line up,
Although man has included meat in his diet for thousands of years, his anatomy and physiology, and the chemistry of his digestive juices, are still unmistakably those of a frugivorous animal.
Always acknowledge your position in the food chain ... They eat because you grow the food.
Skeletal remains show that plant-fed humans were a head shorter than meat-eating hunters, prone to anemia, infectious diseases, rotten teeth, and bone disorders.
I only eat things that you don't have to kill.
The animals you eat are not those who devour others; you do not eat the carnivorous beasts, you take them as your pattern. You only hunger for the sweet and gentle creatures which harm no one, which follow you, serve you, and are devoured by you as the reward of their service.
You shouldn't eat animals, it's mean to them,
If you come to think of it, you never see deer, dogs and rabbits worrying about their menus and yet they run much faster than humans.
Animals (meat, fish, fowl, and eggs) and plants (vegetables, fruits, nuts, seeds, and herbs and spices) should represent the entire composition of your diet.
Of all the components of the ecosystem, humans are the only ones we know to be completely optional.
The animals are the most important partners for the humans on earth. They unconditionally sustain us.
I'm a vegetarian, you see, not because I love animals, but because I hate plants.
Kill the ones that eat us. Eat the ones we kill
Animals, I think. We're animals.
I do not knowingly kill any living thing - including insects or rodents - and I thank my food for sustaining me.
In Kenya, where there isn't the luxury of feeding grains to animals, livestock yield more calories than they consume because they are fattened on grass and agricultural by-products inedible to humans.
Hundreds of different hunter-gatherer cultures have been described, and all obtained a substantial proportion of their diet from meat, often half their calories or more.
Subject has the variety of life.
I know vegetarians don't like to hear this, but God made an awful lot of land that's good for nothing but grazing.
I grow vegetables - I'm a vegetarian; I've got strawberries, artichokes, leeks, broad beans.
We need to respect the fact that cows are herbivores, and that does not mean feeding them corn and chicken manure.
I'm a carnivore, a carnivore, a terrible disgusting carnivore.
If you don't hunt, you don't eat
We judge plants and animals by whether they're entertaining to us. We ...
Every predator is a prey.
The world is better without
them.
only the plants and the animals are
true comrades.
I drink to them and with
them.
They are nonhuman persons. They are not food. If animals matter morally at all, there is one and only one rational response: go vegan. Everything else is just participation in animal exploitation.
It is the way of the jungle, kid. Unlike us, they do not have masters to feed them. They hunt other animals to feed themselves. I don't consider them my enemy. But we have a conflict of interest, because it is my job to protect my master's flock.
Animals die even if you eat vegetables. That is the nature of farming. There is a certain sacrifice involved.
Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything.
If vegetarians eat vegetables, what do humanitarians eat
Is boneless chicken considered to be an invertebrate?
You're supposed to eat the cows. They're great big lumbering stupid things - they'd be everywhere if we didn't eat them.
I guess cows aren't into the four food groups, especially when they are two of them.
Australopithecus.
In the wilderness, only the most terrible beasts of prey cavort and gambol. Deer and rabbits play no games.
Animals are my friends ... and I don't eat my friends.
Does anything eat flowers. I couldn't recall having seen anything eat a flower - are they nature's privileged pets?
Animals feed themselves; men eat; but only wise men know the art of eating
The most savage and voracious animal never kills to increase his wealth, or open a way to grandeur. It slays to satisfy his hunger, or in a natural defense of his own life, or of those whom he is prompted by instinct to preserve.
Beasts feed. Man eats. Only the man of intellect knows how to eat.
The things we do to eat! Running from scorpions the size of small dogs, dodging 10 foot long rattlesnakes and squashing monster spiders - all in a days work
If you take away the predators in the prairies and the national parks, you suddenly have an explosion of elk, and then you have a lack of the food source for the elk, so they strip all the ground bare and that takes away the cover, on and on and on and on. The whole food chain is disrupted.
Humans are thought to be at the top of the food chain...
But there are beings who hunt them as food.
These monsters who feed on the dead flesh of humans.
They are called...
...Ghouls.
What the new science of anthrozoology reveals is that our attitudes, behaviors, and relationships with the animals in our lives- the ones we love, the ones we hate, and the ones we eat- are, likewise, more complicated than we thought.
We kill more than 50 billion non-human animals every year in order to eat them,
Evidence from fossilised skeletons indicates that ancient foragers were less likely to suffer from starvation or malnutrition, and were generally taller and healthier than their peasant descendants.
Every single living thing is food to at least one living thing.
In every civilized society there is found a race of men who retain the instincts of the aboriginal cannibal and live upon their fellow-men as a natural food.
Whatever the life form, evolution selects for economy of resources.
My field is with apex predators, hence your crocodiles, your snakes, your spiders.
Food for the native Ewoks.
Afrikander cattle.
the incessant seethe of grasses
These are the animals that are the reason why you don't see old animals in the wild. You don't see sick animals in the wild. You don't see lame animals in the wild, and its all because of the predator: the lion, the tiger, the leopard, all the cats.
There is a species for every predator...
Besides, humans aren't prey. They are our natural enemies. They are to be avoided.
The animals we raise for food today are eaten not because they are notably delectable or nutritious or a pleasure to be around, but because they were the ones first domesticated in the Stone Age.
Think of agriculture as something the grasses did to people to conquer the trees.
I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilized.
My neighbors are crocodiles and tigers and giraffes.
Are there any vegetarians among cannibals?
Belief forages, moving from pasture to pasture.
There'sthemeat eaters and there'sus. And that'stheway I look at the world.
Well, and they must all starve if the plants starve." 'It was true that all their lives depended upon the earth' (Buck, 71).
Animals in the wild lead lives of compulsion and necessity within an unforgiving social hierarchy in an environment where the supply of fear is high and the supply of food is low and where territory must constantly be defended and parasites forever endured.
Consider the biggest animals on the planet: elephants, and buffaloes, and giraffes. These are vegetarian animals. They grow to thousands of pounds of muscle and bone without ever eating cheeseburgers and pepperoni pizzas.
Grass is food for elephants, but a cushion for lions.
The nutritive substances used in greatest quantities by mammals are carbohydrates.
We don't eat anything that has to be killed for us. We've been through a lot and we've reached a stage where we really value life.
The cows shorten the grass, and the chickens eat the fly larvae and sanitize the pastures. This is a symbiotic relation.
In my garden, which is a big garden, I have one part that is my bird garden, and every morning, 365 days a year, they get buckets of food - for the birds, for the squirrels, the chipmunks and the turtles in the summer.
It's humbling to think that all animals, including human beings, are parasites of the plant world.
The raising of animals for food and all that it entails is the single most destructive force impacting our planet's fragile ecosystems. Our planet simply cannot sustain the greed of billions of human beings who are eating other animals.
No part of the world can be truly understood without a knowledge of its garment of vegetation, for this determines not only the nature of the animal inhabitants but also the occupations of the majority of human beings.
The way humans hunt for parking and the way animals hunt for food are not as different as you might think.
Vegetarian - that's an old Indian word meaning lousy hunter.
I talk to children in schools all over the world, and I've found that both boys and girls are fascinated by how hunter-gatherers manage to survive entirely on what's around them in their environment: trees, rocks, animals and plants.
As human pastoralists discovered 8,000 years ago, raising animals can be an efficient way of harnessing otherwise unusable resources such as grass.
Carnatur, eh? What are they man-eating daisies?
Animal agriculture takes up an incredible 70% of all agricultural land, and a whopping 30% of the land surface of the planet. As a result, farmed animals are probably the biggest cause of slashing and burning the world's forests.
They say that vegetable food is not sufficiently nutritious. But chemistry proves the contrary. So does physiology. So does experience ... And again: the largest and strongest animals in the world are those which eat no flesh-food of any kind - the elephant and the rhinoceros.
Cattle ... it called us cattle ...
We're hamburger, you mean.
A new group, flexitarians, who eat meat if not too many people are watching.
The people that hunt are the guys that really vehemently protect the environment. You find that people that live on ranches tend to want to keep it that way, and I've always loved that about the hunters that I've known. They eat what they kill, and they carry it out. They don't shoot for sport.
[I]n all mammalian species that have so far been carefully studied, the rate at which their members engage in the killing of conspecifics is several thousand times greater than the highest homicide rate in any American city.
Vegtables, what food eats before it becomes food.
In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and the localities in which they are found.
Animales depend on us to take care of them.
Plants do everything animals do, but slowly. They migrate, communicate, deceive, stalk their food and, with an ostentation of styles and perfumes to put the animal kingdom to shame, they make love. It's just that catching them in flagrante delicto might require time-lapse photography.
I am as omnivorous as it's possible to be. I always say there's nothing I won't eat and nothing I won't wear.
Now you see what kind of creatures we are, Hugh. Eating things alive. That's what we do. How can you have much respect for mankind, or any belief in the social struggle?
Most people have forgotten how to live with living creatures, with living systems and that, in turn, is the reason why man, whenever he comes into contact with nature, threatens to kill the natural system in which and from which he live.
I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals, I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants.
my ancestors didn't fight there way to the top of the food chain to look down and see me eating leaves
As in the wild there were predators and prey, so, too, did they exist among men in towns and cities. The hardworking peasants were the grazers, and the thieves were the starving coyotes.