Jun 17 2008Jessica Simpson's meat-love gets her unsolicited advice from PETA

I'm a vegetarian, and I eat meat. And like it.

Ow, that shirt is actually about EATING MEAT. I thought it was meant as a dirty joke. I really need to get my mind out of the gutter.

Like we all said yesterday when these pictures were posted on the site..... This airhead tramp only wore that T-shirt for publicity. Peopel with no real talents usually do stupid retarded shit like this to get some kind of reaction from the public so their names are in the tabloids.
Way to go J. Simpson. Try to get people to stop focusing on your fake relationship with dumb-ass, and focus on a stupid comment worn over your even fak-er boobs. Be truthful, the only meat you eat or that you'll ever eat, has to be lodged between a man's legs right?
Can't stand this talent-less cunt.

*rolls eyes* Being vegetarian will help you slim down and stay that way, eh. It will also make you an extremely pale and weak individual as you try desperatly to replace the much needed iron your body functions on with suppliments.

Wouldn't it be nice if PETA would just blow away...if they're all so thin, then a strong breeze could come along and pick them up. Then they could be carried to a land full of carnivores and they can see how much their little animal friends love them.

PETA is one of the worst organizations since religion.

I agree with Lola

Wait, you mean there is meat not located somewhere on the human body. Like, non-human meat? And people eat that?!? I'm so... I'm so confused....

jesus vegetarians are annoying! now, Jessica Simpson is very annoying as well, but please, its just ridiculous for PETA to pretend there are no overweight vegetarians (I know several) and that all you have to do to stay in good shape is avoid meat. there is no scientific or health-related backing to this, they just say it because it sounds plausible. PETA is the cheesiest cause-celebre in the world.

I can get behind cannabilism, but eating non-human meat is wrong. Or something. Maybe it's the bottle of wine I drank.

Where's Jimbo? He'll straighten this out.

PETA get a life!

PETA get a life!

Now we all know how "SMART" she is!!

Great idea, PETA. Scare girls off eating meat because they'll get fat if they're not vegetarian. BS. Glad to see you're concerned about the unrealistic expectations of image placed on young girls. And girls going vego for a legitimate reason. Bah. I angrily point my wet newspaper at you.

@8

I agree. We have 3 Vegans at our work and they look worse than anyone else, theyre all at least 50 pounds overweight, white as a sheet of paper, and have these purple rings under their eyes.

All the fucking eat is pasta, pizza, or salads. Theyre blimps!

And who would expect the hairy, black rimmed glasses-wearing fems at PETA would have an eating meat joke go totally over their heads.

All the vegetarians I know are fat. And most of them have mentioned that they need to eat shit-loads of cheese and other such foods to fill them up, as pasta just doesn't cut it.

Eating meat and exercising is going to give you a slim-lined, toned physique. Meat = protein, and protein = muscles which = defined body shape. Not eating meat and not exercising = a bit of chub. Not eating meat and exercising = boney, skinny, pale, wasting-away.

I love animals and am all for animal rights but f*ck PETA. Do they really think anyone takes them seriously with comments like "meat makes you fat and gives you flabby bingo wings."

Just so you know PETA.........Everytime you piss me off with dumbass statements like this one.........there is one less kitten in the world.

Not a bimbo Jessica fan but PETA is ridiculous. If God didn't want us to eat animals he wouldn't have made them so yummy. I didn't claw my way to the top of the food chain to eat veggies!

Good for peta, I hate fking ugly btch Jessica Simpson

@9 Hey Sara, Cannabilism? What do you consider a good human to eat? I have seen a few that I would not mind taking a bite out of.

Are you still in Korea?

Eating meat will make the Lifetime Channel go off the air? Really???

I don't eat meat now (for health and environmental reasons, not because of those freaks at PETA) but I might consider the occasional steak if it will make that channel disappear.

What do we have to do to get rid of The Oxygen Channel?

People Eating Tasty Animals?

Pornstars Eventually Try Anal?

Pissing Especially Toward Everyone?

Pimps Even Take AMEX?

I'm a vegetarian and I'm 5'5 and 106 pounds.

I'm slim and I don't work out and I can thank being vegetarian. Meat is gross.

"Vegetarians are weak and pale"

Really? I'm pretty sure I got a cute tan this summer, I'm in good shape, can beat my brothers in tennis.

PETA supports enviromental terrorism and is an evil organization that pretends like they have good intentions.

Humans weren't intended to eat meat. We are identical to herbivores, we aren't even omnivores. Whatever though, fatties don't want to put down that burger.

Check out this chart if you don't believe me

http://i31.tinypic.com/2meojtw.jpg

Jessica is a stupid bitch for wearing that shirt. What does that accomplish. She is truly an idiot. No act.

Lava - 12 year old girls don't count. Now turn off the computer and go beat off your brothers some more.

You know, this is one of those topics I should stay out of, because it gets pretty heated and there's never a clear winner, but I really do have to point out that all lifestyle choices, whether they be sexuality, religion, or even diet cause rifts in the populace. I just don't understand why everyone has to push their beliefs on others. It's nothing but pure ignorance to claim only one lifestyle is right or correct. Both vegans/vegetarians and carnivores can be real assholes about it. Everyone just needs to STFU and coexist.

Nice one coffeebean, but it's irrelevant, since I'm 19.... =)

I have nothing against meat-eaters, my whole family eats meat besides me. I'm sick of stereotypes though and getting hatred from meat-eaters when I've done nothing. I don't force my views down peoples throat, it's your body if you wanna put that crap in it, go ahead. Just don't try to tell me to eat meat.

# 22 - That's not slim - it's a bag 'o' friggen bones. You don't work out, but beat your brothers at tennis? Well, F*ck my @ss and call me a bitch - tennis is exercise is it not? Stop talking gibberish, rake-gurl. ^-_-^

Meat in moderation is perfectly fine and will not make you fat if eaten in a reasonable portion.
if humans were meant to be exclusively herbivores we wouldn't have developed the teeth to eat meat. So PETA blame evolution, nature or God... whichever floats your boat.
PETA gets on my nerves.... damn freaks. Be vegetarian if you want, I don't care, but don't try to make me feel bad because I enjoy eating a good piece of grilled chicken or the occasional steak.

@14

Everyone should expect that, Deacon.

Is the purple-rings-under-eyes caused from no-meat diet?

"4. Meat will make you fat. All the saturated fat and cholesterol in chicken wings, pork chops, and steak eventually leads to flabby thighs and love handles. I hope the upcoming "Jessica Simpson's Intimates" line comes in plus sizes! Going vegetarian is the best way to get slim and stay that way."

Hate to break it to PETA, but I know plenty of fat vegetarians. Just because you don't eat meat, doesn't neccessarily mean you're going to slim down.

Hey Jimbo #19
I can see why you have so many trolls. You are just plain fucking stupid. Cant wait for your really witty reply. Let me help you, Hey Karl your a douch bag. So fucking clever you trollable ass wipe.

Oh shut up Krystal.
If we weren't intended to eat meat, we wouldnt have the digestive enzymes in our bodies that are needed to break it down. It would be like feeding a burger to a horse, they would puke it up since they can't digest it.

Leave vegetarians/vegans alone, I never understood why so many fellow meat-eaters have such hatred towards them.

Not every vegetarian/vegan is a member of PETA, it's the way they live and if they eat properly it's actually a much healthier lifestyle.

I applaud vegetarians/vegans actually, to have the willpower to even do that.

I could never become one.

My girlfriend is a vegan and she's absolutely perfect, doesn't mind that I eat it.

@24 - that is complete and utter BS. Humans are both carnivores and herbivores. Have your DNA checked - it is chocked full of empirical evidence that your ancestors consumed animal meat since the beginning of hominid existence. If our species was "intended to be herbivores" then we would not possess the proteins necessary to consume and digest meat.

Now enough already with the veggie freaks. Jes is no MENSA candidate, but she has a nice rack and I'm extremely impressed that even with an IQ equal to the current temperature in Nome Alaska, she can express something as docile as her eating preferences AND show off a quality set of tits all at the same time.

-- I guarantee you that if there was suddenly a vegetable shortage these wacko veggie dorks would be eye gouging for a slab of baby backs.

You know we are most like chimps right? What do they eat? They are vegetarian, that's right. On occasions they'll eat bugs, they can still digest it but it isn't quite good for them.

It's been proven also that on average vegetarians are smarter.

Charles Darwin, Jane Goodall, Albert Einstein, Leonardo Da Vinci, Gandhi, Thomas Edison, Benjamin Franklin, William Shakespeare, Sir Isaac Newton, Plato, are just a few of the famous people who were vegetarian

I'M PROUD TO BE VEGETARIAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"wouldn't be able to digest it" ? Are you kidding me?

You could digest card board if you wanted to but it doesn't mean that its good for you.

So naive.

@33 Karl, I know why no one ever trolls you. Calling you a douche bag would be a compliment. Go crawl back in your hole you worthless fucking butt plug..

@30, We don't have the teeth to eat meat, why do you think we have to cook it so much?

If we were intended to go eat meat, then go tackle a cow, tear open it's flesh and eat it's meat right there, like how real animals that are suppose to eat it do.

We have fingers perfect for picking berries, back molars for grinding nuts and such, two front teeth to bite into an apple.

What ever you say you meat-eaters, you just keep trying to justify it.

She is such a cuttie. Her photos were seen at millionaire persoanals site ******W e a l t h y R o m a n c e . c o m*****last week. It is said she is already in relationship with a young billionaire on that site now.

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@38

No Im not kidding you. Get a degree in biology and then debate me bitch

They are probably right, just look at jessica simpsons face, she looks like a man.

She's getting a little chubby too

@37
that complete BS.... You have zero proof that half of those people were Vegetarian, unless you go to Wikipedia and put it in their bio yourself!

and yes many chimps are Omnivores (I know... thats a grown up word, it means meat and veggie eater) what do you think they sit around and only eat Bananas?!
idiot....

be a vegetarian if you want, I don't care.... but don't start making shit up to make your case.

My woman has eaten my meat for years, and really, I think it's all the splooge that got her hippy...

You're retarded Deacon Jones. Horse would spit it out only cause it doesn't taste good to them and they have the instinct to know it's not good for them.

Humans have always acted on thought, rather than instinct, so it's no wonder cavemen would of ate it.

Humans have gotten smarter since then, we know what it does to your body now, yet still so many ignorant people.

Krystal spewed: "It's been proven also that on average vegetarians are smarter."

Too bad you're bringing down the curve. Chimps eat meat and lots of it, not just "bugs". Sheesh, If you don't want to eat some meat to get the necessary protein for higher brain functions, Krystal, give me a ring and I'll hook you up with a protein injection.

http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~stanford/chimphunt.html

Girl is desperate for attention.

"So I am living without fats, without meat, without fish, but am feeling quite well this way. It always seems to me that man was not born to be a carnivore."

-Albert Einstein

"Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet. "

-Albert Einstein

@37 "It's been proven also that on average vegetarians are smarter."

way to bring the curve down!

HAHA! Nice explaination 46!

What are you saying, a horse is smarter than a person? Horses would spit it out because they CANT digest it. It would be like us eating a piece of metal.

Why do we have incisors Krystal? To tear the meat off of a nice strawberry? Why do we have an appendix?

Smarter people more likely to be vegetarians.

British researchers have just conducted a study that found that that the higher the IQ of a person is, the more likely they are to follow a relatively health diet overall. It also indicated, more specifically, that IQ is a reliable predictor of the likelihood of a teen/young adult becoming a vegetarian.

Why are people still talking about whether you should eat salad or steak? Her shirt is just an affirmation of her sexual preference. Oh, and PETA is a whiny bag of wind.

Everyone has the right to choose what they want to eat. I am what you call a pescatarian. I eat wild caught fish and no meat. One can get all the protein one needs by eating fish, cheese, beans, and soy products. One can get all the calcium required by eating cheese and drinking soy milk. Light Chocolate Silk Soy Milk is my favorite. I am not skinny but petite and fit and have a nice tan from swimming and body surfing. I also work out with light weights to stay toned. I stopped eating meat after I learned how the factory farms raise the livestock. The government allows factory farms to inject growth hormones and antibiotics into the livestock. The factory farms feed the livestock fillers such as cement dust, newspapers, and excrement laced with pesticides. Meat does not sound appetizing at all. We are currently having a weight loss contest at my job site with most of the overweight people, and one female stopped eating meat and has already lost 10 pounds within 2 weeks.

Vegetarians are more intelligent, says study

Frequently dismissed as cranks, their fussy eating habits tend to make them unpopular with dinner party hosts and guests alike.

But now it seems they may have the last laugh, with research showing vegetarians are more intelligent than their meat-eating friends.

Question: Does PETA not know about how a proper diet is based on balance? a healthy balance of meat, grains, fruits and veggies? and that a healthy lifestyle with exercise and activity can man you lean mean and healthy? even when you eat meat? (in which Jessica does).

plus, I don't take my nutritional advice from a group that put buckets of chicken blood in the hands of children coming out of KFC.

PETA is an institution of morons. But I also belong to "a" PETA. Not "the" PETA.

I am glad that Jessica and I belong to the "People for the Eating of Tasty Animals."

Go suck on a carrot PETA.

I became vegetarian last year and lost 23 pounds! whoo!!

Kirk, you can get protein from other sources than meat you dimwit

I think we're all missing the point here. To each it's own.... You wanna eat meat, go ahead. It's your choice. You want to eat leaves and nuts and stay away from meat, so be it. Also your choice. PETA is self-righteous and alot of what they do is stupid and pointless. Like throwing paint on celebrities and taking it upon themselves to putting J. Simpson out and responding to a stupid T-shirt she only wore either just to get attention or because she doesn't know how to work a washing machine.
No one is saying one is better than the other, it's all a personal choice for each individual to do what they want.

@58 Krystal, I have a lot of protein for you. Just get on your knees and I will fill you up.

I'd like to be a vegetarian if it wasn't for the fact that nothing goes better with a glass of scotch than a porterhouse. That and perhaps more glasses of scotch..

I'm vegetarian cause I love animals too much to eat them not cause of PETA, so stop being mean to us pleas...

It's been proven that the size of the human brain and, in turn, the increase in self-awareness and ingenuity is directly related to man eating flesh and benefiting from the excess protein, iron, and fat. Of course if you eat a 2 lb steak every day and fry your scrambled eggs in bacon grease, you will die younger than intended, but it's smple fact that we would not be the same species if we didn't evolve to eat meat. Also, hunted meat has a different nutritional value than mass produced factory farm meat. Krystal, expand your horizons and read books from more than one section in Barnes and Noble. I would try the self help section next...

Vincent: Want some bacon?
Jules: No man, I don't eat pork.
Vincent: Are you Jewish?
Jules: Nah, I ain't Jewish, I just don't dig on swine, that's all.
Vincent: Why not?
Jules: Pigs are filthy animals. I don't eat filthy animals.
Vincent: Bacon tastes gooood. Pork chops taste gooood.
Jules: Hey, sewer rat may taste like pumpkin pie, but I'd never know 'cause I wouldn't eat the filthy motherfucker. Pigs sleep and root in shit. That's a filthy animal. I ain't eat nothin' that ain't got enough sense enough to disregard its own faeces.
Vincent: How about a dog? Dogs eats its own feces.
Jules: I don't eat dog either.
Vincent: Yeah, but do you consider a dog to be a filthy animal?
Jules: I wouldn't go so far as to call a dog filthy but they're definitely dirty. But, a dog's got personality. Personality goes a long way.
Vincent: Ah, so by that rationale, if a pig had a better personality, he would cease to be a filthy animal. Is that true?
Jules: Well we'd have to be talkin' about one charmin' motherfuckin' pig. I mean he'd have to be ten times more charmin' than that Arnold on Green Acres, you know what I'm sayin'?

I've been a vegetarian for eight years and the shirt didn't make me flinch. It was a stupid cry for attention. I think she's just pissed off that the pregnant little sister has been getting all the focus lately. And it was totally unnecessary for PETA to jump in...they're such a pack of hysterical losers. They make all the sane vegetarians in the world look bad.

Kyrstal and all the other vegetarians getting put down on this site. Please try not to waste your time debating with ignorant people. The bottom line is vegetarians who practice good eating habits are healthier than those eating factory farmed animals.

@64, Pigs are actually very clean animals, they only use mud cause they have no sweat pores so they use it to cool off, other then that they hate being dirty.

#61 - Excellent pairing, but not as good as this box of Trojans and that sassy little intern down the hall...

if animals weren't meant to be eaten then they wouldn't be so damn yummy! : )

@5 Not only do we have the same name but I think I love you.

Humans were meant to be omnivores. If we were meant to be herbivores, our stomachs would be a lot more complex and we wouldn't need vitamin B12. kthxbye

You guys bitch about vegetarians all the time and wonder why they get so defensive. If someone was calling me a "wacko" or "annoying" or saying I look pasty, pale and weak I'd be getting upset too. Just STFU and leave them be, jesus.

PETA lost all credibility years ago.

They are a joke, they just don't realize it.

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The only difference between pigs and dogs is the way we treat them. On factory farms, mother pigs spend their days and nights on the cold concrete floors of tiny metal boxes called "gestation crates" (or "farrowing crates"). The crates are so small that the pigs can't even turn around—but they spend most of their lives in there.

Pigs also have their tails cut off and their teeth ripped out, and they're castrated—all without any painkillers. It's wrong to do these things to dogs, and it's wrong to do them to pigs.

Think about it: If pigs said "woof"—would we treat them like this?

Pigs are the smartest animals on the planet besides primates. They're as smart as 3-year-old children, and pigs can suffer and feel pain just as we can. It isn't fair for them to live out their lives on factory farms, where they are denied everything that is natural and important to them—like rolling in mud, playing with their families, and basking in the warmth of the sun.

That's true #73, pigs are actually smarter then dogs.

Hundreds of thousands of sheep and cattle have been slaughtered to stop the spread of foot-and-mouth disease and mad cow disease in Britain and other countries in the European Union. Funeral pyres are burning 'round the clock. The entire beef industry is on the verge of collapse.
The disasters striking overseas are the result of "modern" methods used in the meat industry. Viruses spread like wildfire on factory farms where animals are crammed together without enough space to turn around or lie down. Saving pennies by grinding up left-over bits of sheep and cows and feeding them to other cows is believed to be responsible for mad cow disease and, in humans, the deadly variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.

#73 - I swear, your link should be to a picture of a violin...

PETA is wrong. Eating meat doesn't make you fat. Eating breaded battered ANYTHING will make you fat. Dumbasses.

So what if PETA reacted, jessica was being a bitch and dissing them saying that you're not a real girl if you don't eat it.

Yes it has a sexual meaning behind it too, but it has two meanings

Fact: Americans are fat asses.

Fact: The government created even more fat asses by putting out that "food pyramid" propaganda.

Fact: The meat-loving Atkins diet has outperformed every other diet in every major large-scale scientific study to date, AND has never shown the expected negative impact on long-term health.

Fact: The Atkins diet continues to get bashed by the American medical community because they can't admit they were WRONG. When humans eat a meat-focused diet and stay away from carbs, they stay thinner and healthier, because that's the way evolution built us. FAAAAAAAAAAAAAACT.

I fucking hate PETA so much

@79

Those are not facts you ignorant tard

I'm not fat and I'm American. What now?

There is fat people everywhere

Funny that PETA claims to care so much for animals, but is against certain TYPES of animals...ehem, like how PETA supports the ban on Pit Bulls. Is is really HUMANE to have a whole breed banned and slaughtered because of the actions of neglectful owners? What about the animal cruelty charges by numerous PETA staff? Frigging hypocrites. I support ending needless animal cruelty, but I HATE PETA AND ITS CELEBRITY B.S.

she has just earned my respect. I've seen plenty of fat "vegetarians" only vegans are thin because of their diets.
Peta has just showed how shallow they are.

Go Jessica!
Peta kills puppies.

PETA has it right! Don't eat meat. There's only one real good reason to kill an animal.

For fun.

Then just throw all that gross meat stuff away. It's not like there are starving people in the world or anything, there's enough grass to go around to feed everyone!

#81 - I think you meant to write: There BE fat people everywhere.

#81 - actually, Harold dearest, the part about the Atkins diet beating all the others is a fact. The studies are published, you can look it up.

@ #49
Krystal,
Way to provide support and omit that he wrote this little nugget within the LAST YEAR OF HIS LIFE--which was when he decided to become a vegetarian. Prior to actually refraining from eating meat in the last year of his life, he made references to being a vegetarian, WHILE HE HIMSELF ATE MEAT.
Perhaps he was senile when he stopped eating meat? Perhaps he couldn't digest properly in his old age? Perhaps he just wanted to try it out?

Regardless of his reasoning, when someone decides to not eat meat for an extremely limited period of their existence, while they ate meat during the extreme majority of their existence, it is pretty stupid to refer to them as "vegetarian." Thanks for showing that you will stoop to the level of manipulation to win an argument on a message board.
Can I now use this as irrefutable evidence that vegetarians are deceptive little douchebags?

#79

My aunt has severe osteoroposis from not getting enough calcium and eating too much meat. The bottom line is have a colorful plate (vegetables, fish, and rice) and eat a balanced diet. Moderation is the key and not a unhealthy fad diet.

@87
Does it really matter WHEN he became one? He still saw it as the better lifestyle even if he was really old at the time.

#49

Very interesting quote from Einstein-thanks. I am glad he spoke his opinion before he died whether he recently became a vegetarian or not.

@51 "Why do we have an appendix?"

Actually, that one has nothing to do with meat eating. Scientists now theorize that we have an appendix because, in ages when population density was lower, the bacteria that lives there was needed to repopulate the intestines after an illness that wiped them out. It's vestigial, now, because we can pick up the needed bacteria from other people.

I don't really sweat other people's food choices. I do think that meat eating is going to drop quite a lot as fuel and animal feed prices make meat unaffordable. Meat eating is, in the long run, unsustainable. But, I think this one is going to sort itself without PETA and their ilk getting all bombastic.

ZOMG PEOPLES, I KNOW A GUY WHO ATE MEAT, LIKE, ALL THE TIME. THEN HE GOT HIT BY A CAR AND DIED. MEAT KILLS!!!

I know quite a few fat vegetarians.

Some people have bad eating habits whether they are vegetarian or not and are overweight. The point is that being vegetarian is healthier than being a meat eater if one practices a balance diet and eats in moderation.

@89
To me, no it doesn't matter, he can do whatever he wants...it is just manipulative to try to categorize someone as a "vegetarian" when they were only acting as a vegetarian for 1 year out of the 76 years that they actually were alive, only to make your argument look stronger. The intent was for all of us here to say "wow, Einstein was a vegetarian his whole life, and he is a genius!" The truth is he was NOT a vegetarian until he was 75 years old. It is just manipulative...

Besides, we don't know WHY he chose to be a vegetarian...he could have NEEDED to become a vegetarian, for a variety of health reasons...

PETA = obeast dykes who need to get a life. Only morbidly obese dykes cry wolf like this.

vegetarians should be shot, or worse, sent to Canada

PETA and Planned Parenthood should be labled Terrorist Orginizations.

"I have always eaten animal flesh with a somewhat guilty conscience."
- Einstein Archive 60-058

PETA has away of making Jessica Simpson look smarter. I thought their organization was about animal rights blahblahblah. Now they are about being "healthy?" Lamelamelame

PS I am currently a vegetarian too. My shoes are made of leather though & I use to have a pet dog so PETA shunned me. I am really just angry.

OMG! It's true!, I also read that if you eat meat your chances of dying in a plane crash increase because you weight more!
That's why I'm proud to be a vegetarian!!!!!!11111

A vegetarian is a person who won't eat anything that can have children. --David Brenner

Animals are my friends...and I don't eat my friends. --George Bernard Shaw

How can you eat anything with eyes? --Will Kellogg

Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child, as it is to the caterpillar. -- Bradley Miller

If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian. --Paul McCartney

I do not like eating meat because I have seen lambs and pigs killed. I saw and felt their pain. They felt the approaching death. I could not bear it. I cried like a child. I ran up a hill and could not breathe. I felt that I was choking. I felt the death of the lamb. --Vaslav Nijinsky (dancer and choreographer)

Now I can look at you in peace; I don't eat you anymore. -- Franz Kafka-Novelist (to the fishes in his aquarium)

People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times. --Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904- )

For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love. --Pythagoras (6th century BC)

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. --Leo Tolstoy

Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own. --Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)

Recognize meat for what it really is: the antibiotic- and pesticide-laden corpse of a tortured animal. ~Ingrid Newkirk, National Director of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them. -- Samuel Butler, Note-Books, 1912

Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet. --Albert Einstein

Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own. -- Robert Louis Stevenson

The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined. If beef is your idea of "real food for real people" you'd better live real close to a real good hospital. --Neal Barnard, M.D.

We all love animals. Why do we call some "pets" and others "dinner?" --k.d. lang

Dear Lord, I've been asked, nay commanded, to thank Thee for the Christmas turkey before us... a turkey which was no doubt a lively, intelligent bird... a social being... capable of actual affection... nuzzling its young with almost human-like compassion. Anyway, it's dead and we're gonna eat it. Please give our respects to its family. --Berke Breathed, Bloom County Babylon

We pray on Sundays that we may have light/To guide our footsteps on the path we tread;/We are sick of war, we don't want to fight,/And yet we gorge ourselves upon the dead. -- George Bernard Shaw

We don't need to eat anyone who would run, swim, or fly away if he could. --James Cromwell

If you knew how meat was made, you'd probably lose your lunch. --k.d. lang
A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses. --George Bernard Shaw

As long as there are slaughterhouses, there will be battlefields. --Leo Tolstoy, author

The eating of meat extinguishes the seed of great compassion. --Mahaparinirvana (Buddhist)

I do feel that spiritual progress does demand at some stage that we should cease to kill our fellow creatures for the satisfaction of our bodily wants. -- Gandhi

I will not eat anything that walks, runs, skips, hops or crawls. God knows that I've crawled on occasion, and I'm glad that no one ate me. -----Alex Poulos

We don't need to eat anyone who would run, swim, or fly away if he could. --James Cromwell

If you knew how meat was made, you'd probably lose your lunch. --k.d. lang

A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses. --George Bernard Shaw

As long as there are slaughterhouses, there will be battlefields. --Leo Tolstoy, author

The eating of meat extinguishes the seed of great compassion. --Mahaparinirvana (Buddhist)

I do feel that spiritual progress does demand at some stage that we should cease to kill our fellow creatures for the satisfaction of our bodily wants. -- Gandhi

I will not eat anything that walks, runs, skips, hops or crawls. God knows that I've crawled on occasion, and I'm glad that no one ate me. -----Alex Poulos

One farmer says to me, "You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make the bones with;" and so he religiously devotes a part of his day to supplying himself with the raw material of bones; walking all the while he talks behind his oxen, which, with vegetable-made bones, jerk him and his lumbering plow along in spite of every obstacle. --Henry David Thoreau

Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay. --George Bernard Shaw

My situation is a solemn one. Life is offered to me on condition of eating beefsteaks. But death is better than cannibalism. My will contains directions for my funeral, which will be followed not by mourning coaches, but by oxen, sheep, flocks of poultry, and a small traveling aquarium of live fish, all wearing white scarfs in honor of the man who perished rather than eat his fellow creatures. --George Bernard Shaw

I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens. --Isaac Bashevis Singer, quoted in You Said a Mouthful edited by Ronald D. Fuchs

Suppose that tomorrow a group of beings from another planet were to land on Earth, beings who considered themselves as superior to you as you feel yourself to be to other animals. Would they have the right to treat you as you treat the animals you breed, keep and kill for food? --John Harris (1946- )

Heart attacks... God's revenge for eating his little animal friends. --Author Unknown

Vegetarian food leaves a deep impression on our nature. If the whole world adopts vegetarianism, it can change the destiny of humankind. -- Albert Einstein

Our task must be to free ourselves... widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty. -- Albert Einstein

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. -- Gandhi

If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalist for the same reasons. -- C. S. Lewis

Among the noblest in the land - Though man may count himself the least - That man I honor and revere, Who without favor, without fear, In the great city dares to stand, The friend of every friendless beast. --Henry W. Longfellow

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. And to act so is immoral. -- Leo Tolstoy

Tongue - a variety of meat, rarely served because it clearly crosses the line between a cut of beef and a piece of a dead cow. --Bob Ekstrom

While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth? --George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

Coexistence... what the farmer does with the turkey - until Thanksgiving. --Mike Connolly

A mind of the calibre of mine cannot derive its nutriment from cows. --George Bernard Shaw

It is strange to hear people talk of Humanitarianism, who are members of societies for the prevention of cruelty to children and animals, and who claim to be God-loving men and women, but who, nevertheless, encourage by their patronage the killing of animals merely to gratify the cravings of appetite. --Otoman Zar-Adusht Ha'nish (1844-1936)

If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be vegetarian. We feel better about ourselves and better about the animals, knowing we're not contributing to their pain.
--Paul (1942- ) and Linda McCartney

You put a baby in a crib with an apple and a rabbit. If it eats the rabbit and plays with the apple, I'll buy you a new car. --Harvey Diamond

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. And to act so is immoral.--Leo Tolstoy

But for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that proportion of life and time it had been born into the world to enjoy. --Plutarch (c.AD 46-c.120)

Flesh eating is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an act, which is contrary to moral feeling: killing. By killing, man suppresses in himself, unnecessarily, the highest spiritual capacity, that of sympathy and pity towards living creatures like himself and by violating his own feelings becomes cruel. -- Leo Tolstoy

Flesh eating is unprovoked murder. -- Benjamin Franklin

I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men. --Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519)

To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. I should be unwilling to take the life of a lamb for the sake of the human body. --Mohandas Gandhi (1869-1948)

We stopped eating meat many years ago. During the course of a Sunday lunch we happened to look out of the kitchen window at our young lambs playing happily in the fields. Glancing down at our plates, we suddenly realized that we were eating the leg of an animal who had until recently been playing in a field herself. We looked at each other and said, "Wait a minute, we love these sheep--they're such gentle creatures. So why are we eating them?" It was the last time we ever did. --Linda and Paul McCartney (musicians)

"Those who, by their purchases, require animals to be killed have no right to be shielded from the slaughterhouse or any other aspect of the production of the meat they buy. If it is distasteful for humans to think about, what can it be like for the animals to experience it?" --Peter Singer

"My dream is that people will come to view eating an animal as cannibalism." --Henry Spira

In every respect, vegans appear to enjoy equal or better health in comparison to both vegetarians and non-vegetarians. --T. Colin Campbell, PhD Professor of Nutrition, Cornell University (letter dated 3/29/98)

"Awareness is bad for the meat business. Conscience is bad for the meat business. Sensitivity to life is bad for the meat business. DENIAL, however, the meat business finds indispensable." --John Robbins, Diet for a New America

"There will come a time...when civilised people will look back in horror on our generation and the ones that preceded it: the idea that we should eat other living things running around on four legs, that we should raise them just for the purpose of killing them! The people of the future will say "meat-eaters!" in disgust and regard us in the same way we regard cannibals and cannibalism" --Dennis Weaver

"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 after sweet and gentle creatures who harm no one, which follow you, serve you, and are devoured by you as the reward of their service" --John Jacques Rousseau

"The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined. If beef is your idea of `real food for real people,' you'd better live real close to a real good hospital." --Neal D. Barnard, M.D., President, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, Washington, D.C.

"When we kill the animals to eat them, they end up killing us because their flesh, which contains cholesterol and saturated fat, was never intended for human beings." --William C. Roberts, M.D., editor of The American Journal of Cardiology

"All red meat contains saturated fat. There is no such thing as truly lean meat. Trimming away the edge ring of fat around a steak really does not lower the fat content significantly. People who have red meat (trimmed or untrimmed) as a regular feature of their diets suffer in far greater numbers from heart attacks and strokes."
--Michael Klaper, M.D., Medical Director, EarthSave Foundation, Santa Cruz, California

"If you step back and look at the data, the optimum amount of red meat you eat should be zero."
--Walter Willett, M.D., of Brigham and Women's Hospital, director of a study that found a close correlation between red meat consumption and colon cancer.

"Usually, the first thing a country does in the course of economic development is to introduce a lot of livestock. Our data are showing that this is not a very smart move and the Chinese are listening. They are realizing that animal-based agriculture is not the way to go.... We are basically a vegetarian species and should be eating a wide variety of plant food and minimizing our intake of animal foods.... "Once people start introducing animal products into their diet, that's when the mischief starts." --T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D., of Cornell University, director of a study of 6,500 Chinese that found a close correlation between meat consumption and the incidence of heart disease and cancer.

"The thousands of people who have suffered food poisoning after eating beef will, no doubt, appreciate that their beef was aesthetically acceptable, even though it made them ill. `Lovely to look at, dangerous to eat' is not a standard that is likely to help beef sales." --Carol Tucker Foreman, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture during the Carter administration, commenting on the inadequacy of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Streamlined (Meat) Inspection System (SIS).

If man wants freedom why keep birds and animals in cages? Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial places! I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men. -- Leonardo da Vinci

Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet. -- Albert Einstein

Men dig their graves with their own teeth and die by those fated instruments more than the weapons of their enemies. -- Thomas Moffett

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

There is no fundamental difference between man and the higher animals in their mental faculties... The lower animals, like man, manifestly feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery. -- Charles Darwin

When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy. -- Ingrid Newkirk

If experiments on animals were abandoned on grounds of compassion, mankind would have made a fundamental advance. -- Richard Wagner

For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love. -- Pythagoras

It were much better that a sentient being should never have existed, than that it should have existed only to endure unmitigated misery. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley

What I think about vivisection is that if people admit that they have the right to take or endanger the life of living beings for the benefit of many, there will be no limit for their cruelty. -- Leo Tolstoy

I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts. For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity. -- Ecclesiastes

Not to hurt our humble brethren is our first duty to them, but to stop there is not enough. -- St. Francis of Assisi

I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in its gradual improvement to leave off eating animals. -- Henry David Thoreau

Your choice of diet can influence your long term health prospects more than any other action you might take. -- Former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop

Until he extends the circle of compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace. -- Albert Schweitzer

If you have men who will exclude any of god's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewisewith their fellow men. -- St. Francis of Assisi

Basically we should stop doing those things that are destructive to the environment, other creatures, and ourselves and figure out new ways of existing. -- Moby

Plant life instead of animal food is the keystone of regeneration. Jesus used bread instead of flesh and wine in place of blood at the Lord's Supper. -- German Composer Richard Wagner

It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions. --Mark Twain

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it is the only thing that ever does. -- Margaret Mead

We consume the carcasses of creatures of like appetites, passions and organs with our own, and fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of pain and fear. -- Robert Louis Stevenson

To a man whose mind is free there is something even more intolerable in the sufferings of animals than in the suffering of man. For with the latter it is at least admitted that suffering is evil and that the man who causes it is a criminal. But thousands (now billions) of animals are uselessly butchered every day without a shadow of remorse. If any man were to refer to it, he would be thought ridiculous. And that is the unpardonable crime. -- Romain Rolland--Nobel 1915

Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages. -- Thomas Edison

To become vegetarian is to step into the stream which leads to nirvana. -- Buddha

40 years ago on the set of Gunsmoke I read the book The Holy Science. Since then I have not eaten meat. -- Dennis Weaver

Since visiting the abbatoirs of S. France I have stopped eating meat. -- Vincent Van Gogh (in a letter to his brother Theodore)

The most energetic workers I have encountered in my world travels are the vegetarian miners of Chile. -- Charles Darwin

I feel very deeply about vegetarianism and the animal kingdom. It was my dog Boycott who led me to question to right of humans to eat other sentient beings. -- Cesar Chavez (pacifist head of the United Farm Workers)

Love animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Do not trouble their joy, don't harass them, don't deprive them of their happiness, don't work against God's intent. Man, do not pride yourself on superiority to animals; they are without sin, and you, with your greatness, defile the earth by your appearance on it, and leave the traces of your foulness after you-alas, it is true of almost every one of us! -- Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them, that's the essence of inhumanity. -- Isaac Bashevis Singer

It is man's sympathy with all creatures that first makes him truly a man. -- Dr. Albert Schweitzer--Nobel 1952

@95

No that was not my intent. My intent was that great people have found that vegetarian was good lifestyle, and he chose to become one.

"I have always eaten animal flesh with a somewhat guilty conscience."
- Einstein Archive 60-058

"Although I have been prevented by outward circumstances from observing a strictly vegetarian diet, I have long been an adherent to the cause in principle. Besides agreeing with the aims of vegetarianism for aesthetic and moral reasons, it is my view that a vegetarian manner of living by its purely physical effect on the human temperament would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind." Translation of letter to Hermann Huth, December 27, 1930. Einstein Archive 46-756

"Vegetarian food leaves a deep impression on our nature. If the whole
world adopts vegetarianism, it can change the destiny of humankind."
-Albert Einstein

Einstein was a vegetarian during the last year of his life, although he had supported the idea for a long time. In a letter to Max Kariel he said, "I have always eaten animal flesh with a somewhat guilty conscience," and soon after became a vegetarian.

#102 - Your cut and paste fingers must be bruised.

There is no fundamental difference between man and the higher animals in their mental faculties... The lower animals, like man, manifestly feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery. -- Charles Darwin

Ever notice fat chicks are experts on nutrition?

When all you need to be expert on is not porking out?

kelly osbourne
melissa ethridge
kd lang
peter gabriel
ricki lake
ruben studdard
william shatner
ed asner

@ 102 Indian Child - "The only good indian is a dead indian" -- General George A. Custer

#107

See #94

Yes some people are addicted to food and it shows, but the bottom line is eating a vegetarian diet in moderation is healthier than eating meat.

102- potatoes have eyes and I have heard of lettuce heads. So by your logic you don't eat lettuce or potatoes?

p.s - i think for myself. obviously you do not.

It's fine that PETA feels that way...but they don't have to put people down...stupid jerks who don't give a rat's ass about other people's feelings...if those sorry sons of bitches would just be nice like the rest of us, maybe people would take them a little more seriously.
Also, I'm 5'1, 88 pounds and I don't eat meat or vegetables, because they both have feelings. I'm very healthy and I beat my dad at bowling.

Some more famous Vegetarians

Sir Isaac Newton
Vincent van Gogh
Yoko Ono
Abraham Lincoln
Barry White
Brad Pitt
Buddha
Rosa Parks
Clint Eastwood
Diane Keaton
Epicurus
Kristen Bell
Naomi Watts
Orlando Bloom
Paul McCartney
Plutarch

One of my biggest pet peeves is when people say "I'm a vegetarian" yet they eat fish and poultry. I hate that. Last time I checked, fish and chicken were still considered "meat". Maybe not "red meat" or whatever, but still the flesh of animals. I can't stand that kind of BS.

112- brad pitt is not a vegetarian anymore.
hitler and charles manson were also vegetarians.
what is your point?

Meat eating whores. You have ruined the planet with your bbq smoke. When you carve the putrid flesh from your children's bones you will be happy. Meh.

#112 - That is one fat list o' doucheyness...

Some people are using my name "Krystal" like... #115.

#102 Oh that was so incredibly interesting, I won't ever eat meat again, your mission has been accomplished and you can go kill yourself now.

Awesome, Hitler was vegetarian as well? He was very smart, but very evil.

I once beat a vegan down for spitting in my general direction. Those were the best feeling punches I have ever landed.

He was so soft and gristle free it was like punching a pillow......

She prob wore it as a stab at Carrie Underwood, who is a vegetarian and dating her ex... just a thought....

I tried giving up meat and felt hungry all the time. I believe humans are what you would call omnivores, PETA, meaning we're designed to eat meat and plants. So get your facts straight lest you loose all your credibility. Oh wait. Too late.

#115 so your good for burgers then? Damn, I guess I will have to throw the last 20 out. oh well plenty of meat around, I'll just get more tommorow..

Why do so many people think your diet depends on your skin color?

So many "vegetarians are pale!" comments, sorry but it's the sun that gives you a tan, not food

107 - Ruben Studdard is a vegetarian! Bra ha ha ha!!! Take that stupid PETA! I actually would wear that shirt but I'm afraid the chick at my office who wears the "Meat is Murder" t-shirt would try to beat me up.

@113

That's nothing. I work with a guy who is a Vegan AND Straight Edge.
Except for one little catch, he eats Cheeseburgers. Does that make any fucking sense? Oh yeah, he's about 340 pounds. All he eats for lunch everyday is salad and soft pretzels

#102 - your lengthy comment inspired me to aim the car at 5 squirrels when I ran an errand a few minutes ago. Got 'em all. Best part: I don't like in the South, so nobody's gonna eat them, they're pure kills. I feel so alive!

you ever notice how people who eat meat arent making a whole page because someone wore a t shirt that said "real girls dont eat meat". and if you want to know what is destroying the earth it's all the energy Peta wastes sitting on their lazy ass making some useless page. instead of complaining go out and do something. because no one ever got ahead in anything they wanted to do in life by just complaining about how some one else has a different point of view. .

I thought PETA stood for: People Eating Tasty Animals

@124
Most vegetarians have an iron deficiency since they dont practice what they preach. It makes you look pale since your blood is a lighter color.

Hitler was actually smarter than Einstein. He was evil, albeit brilliant. If he had succeeded Ben Stein and Jerry Seinfeld wouldn't be running hollywood or the banks.

Every vegetarian I know is pretty wimpy ass and is allergic to exercise and muscle tone. Why is that? Why so wimpy?

Every time PETA makes an announcement, I hear the mooing of cows. And then I crave a cheeseburger. MMMM, meat and cheese. Yummy. Thanks, Mr. Cow, You life was not in vain.

yesterday i fashioned a really life-like vag out of ham and roast beef. its good to have time off.

#113

This is actually called California Vegetarian.

#108 & #127 - HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

You meat eaters enjoy all your chemical laced beef and future colon cancer or mad cow disease.

Not all vegetarians are pale and fat, just like not all beef eaters are pale and fat.

She can choke on my sausage any day of the week

137- i eat organic beef and have relatives in their 90's.
Enjoy all of your anemia and chemical laced breakfast cereals and snacks.

1)Deacon, I admit I had to Wikipedia the definition of Straight Edge. I can live without the hard drugs and smoking, but no coffee, alcohol or sex?! Just kill me right now 'cause I don't want to live anymore. Your co-worker sounds delusional. (And morbidly obese!) On the other hand.....mmmmm .....soft pretzels.

2)California Vegetarian, thanks for clearing that up for me. I still think it sounds kind of hypocritical, why use the word "vegetarian" at all? No offense, just wondering.

I'm sure this has been adequately commented on, but here's my two cents.

PETA! You are now officially a bunch of high horse ASSCLOWNS!!! Any respect I had left for you organization is now gone. You dilute your message about animal rights with stupid ass stunts like this. You are also hypocrites with your stupid vegetarian messages on your t-shirts. Who gives a fuck if you like meat or vegetables. If you need to go against anybody, target the nasty fast food chains for their insatiable need for cheap meat, leaving animals in a terrible state. Go organic, support local farmers, etc... Polarizing people does not help your cause. Whatever that is now. Assholes.

I could say so much more, but I think I've said enough. Fuck you PETA!!!

I am a PETA member. Not all of us are crazy so it is not fair to base your opinion on the crazy PETA members.

why did peta waste any time on this stupid bitch.
Don't they know the only people who care about her
is daddy,romo, and 16 year olds.Shes not a real star
and hasn't put out shit lately why is she on this site.

I tried to comment on how over the top that PETA blog is, but all posts have to be approved by the blog owner. I'm in no way opposed to veggies or cotton or hemp-powered buses, but this shit is so ridiculous. Read the comments on that blog. I dare you.

Hey PETA, Greenpeace called and they want you to go f-cking kill yourself.

Okay, we admit it. We want to stick our soy dogs in her poopchute.

Yeah well, we all know the terroristic tactics PETA uses to "promote their message" but claim not to, even though the financial ties to terroristic groups that have set people's cars on fire for not following "their beliefs". Not to mention the thousands of animals they euthanize every year.....go watch the episode of Bullshit! about PETA.

#102 no body wants to read a book in the comments section. We have very short attention spans here. If it were a picture book, that'd be different. But wordy books..ewww.

There is a place in this world for all God's creatures - right next to the mashed potatoes.

People need to quit their self righteous tirades about how eating meat isn't right and that your holier-than-thou bullshit is doing good in this world.

We've been chowing down on succulent carnage since our frontal lobes developed... oh the HUMANITY! It's survival of the fittest.

I especially love this comment:

"Meat will make you fat. All the saturated fat and cholesterol in chicken wings, pork chops, and steak eventually leads to flabby thighs and love handles."

Great, another comment that will only enforce females of this generation obsession with weight, size and poor self-image. BTW you know what else makes you fat: sitting lethargically on your ass because your progressed anemia has drained you of any energy.

Kudos ladies and gents..... kudos

#4: Thoreau says it best:
"One farmer says to me, 'You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make bones with'; and so he religiously devotes a part of his day to supplying his system with the raw material of bones; walking all the while he talks behind his oxen, which, with vegetable-made bones, jerk him and his lumbering plow along in spite of every obstacle."

You can live on vegetable food solely, actually people that do live LONGER.

#148 - That's a great line... which is probably why I used it on yesterday's thread...

Peta is like the FOX News channel of the culinary world.

i think the more important, and funnier, issue is that peta publicly called jessica simpson out for being fat. he he he he he.

I started menopause early and started getting an aversion to meat and have not had it since. I drink soy milk to help with the hot flashes. I was not getting enough calcium in my diet until I became vegetarian. I was concerned that too much cheese would cause me to gain weight. To my delight I have maintained my figure and enjoy a variety of foods like Mexican, Italian, Asian, and American. The Boca Burgers are delicious and high in protein too.

#155 - Why don't you crush some fucking geritol on them and chase 'em down with a nice Metamucil milkshake, granny?

I read through this whole thread. And while I see a lot of vegetarian-bashing, I also see a lot of self-righteous, condescending remarks like "it's your body if you wanna put that crap in it". Do vegetarians not realize its that kind of remark that brings all the heat on you? I eat meat sometimes, not a big fan and I'm really picky about it, but I do eat it.

Try telling some lady making $10.50 an hour and trying to feed her family that she shouldn't buy that cheap hamburger meat because its mean. And that she should take some of her meager income and go to a nutritionist to be coached on how to properly feed her family on a vegetarian diet. You'll get laughed at. If you're not punched out first.

You can post all the famous people who are vegetarians you want, I really don't give a crap. I don't base my diet on what other people eat. Or what they say, for that matter. So, #102, you're welcome to go to hell.

I love animals, always have. I own no fur, and never will. I own leather because at least when a cow is slaughtered, the entire animal is used, nothing is wasted, unlike fur factories. I will always support legislation for humane slaughterhouses.

Its a scientific fact that humans evolved into the species we've become because after they started eating meat, their brains got bigger and evolved. So please stop with the "we're not meant to eat meat" garbage.

The bottom line is, no one is right, no one is wrong. Its called personal preference, and no one should be looking down on anyone else for their dietary habits. Being a vegetarian doesn't make you "better" or "healthier" than someone who eats meat, I don't care what the studies say. And eating meat doesn't make you better or heathier either. We're all going to end up in the same place eventually, no matter what you eat, so shut the fuck up and eat what you want.

I use to live off beans, rice, and tortillas and we all did fine in my big family. One can actually eat healthy and be vegetarian on a budget. The bottom line is if you don't mind eating all the crap they inject in the animals, then keep on eating your meat.

@157

1. If a lady making $10.50 an hour cannot support children properly by giving them healthy
food she shouldn't of had kids.

2. You don't need a nutritionist to be on a vegetarian diet. It's called common sense.

3. Celebrities help influence other people.

4. You only love certain animals, if you're willing to eat meat. Called specism.

5. That's not a fact. People back then just didn't know how to get the proper amount of nutrition from other sources.

6. Haven't the correct vegetarian diet makes you healthier. Fact.

7. Dr. Fuhrman’s position on the consumption of animal products is pretty clear, meat and diary dairy products leads to disease like heart disease and cancer. Even “healthy” choices like fish and chicken put you at risk.

There is a relationship between animal protein and heart disease. For example, plasma apolioprotein B is positively associated with animal-protein intake and inversely associated (lowered) with vegetable-protein intake (e.g., legumes and greens). Apolioprotein B levels correlate strongly with coronary heart disease.1 Unknown to many is that animal proteins have a significant effect on raising cholesterol levels as well, while plant protein lowers it.2

Scientific studies provide evidence that many animal protein’s effect on blood cholesterol may be significant. This is one of the reasons those switching to a low fat-diet do no experience the cholesterol lowering they expect unless they also remove the low-fat animal products as well. Surprising to most people is that yes, even low-fat dairy and skinless white-meat chicken raise cholesterol. I see this regularly in my practice. Many individuals do not see the dramatic drop in cholesterol levels unless they go all the way by cutting all animal proteins from their diet.

According to Dr. Fuhrman white meats are no savior either:

Red met is not the only problem. The consumption of chicken and fish is also linked to colon cancer. A large recent study examined the eating habits of 32,000 adults for six years and then watched the incidence of cancer for these subjects over the next six years. Those who avoided red meat but at white meat regularly had a more than 300 percent increase in colon cancer incidence.3 The same study showed that eating beans, peas, or lentils, at least twice a week was associated with a 50 percent lower risk than never eating these foods.

Chicken has about the same amount of cholesterol as beef, and the production of those potent cancer-causing compounds called heterocyclic amines (HCAs) are even more concentrated in grilled chicken than in beef.4 Another recent study from New Zealand that investigated heterocyclic amines in meat, fish, and chicken found the greatest contributor of HCAs to cancer risk was chicken.5 Likewise, studies indicated that chicken is almost as dangerous as red meat for the heart. Regarding cholesterol, there is no advantage to eating lean white instead of lean red meat.6

The correlation between disease and consumption of animal products seems very clear. Even newer research warns of heighten stomach cancer risk associated with eating processed meats, like sausage, smoked ham, and bacon. Reuters reports:

A review of 15 studies showed the risk of developing stomach cancer rose by 15 to 38 percent if consumption of processed meats increased by 30 grams (1 ounce) per day, the Karolinska Institute said in a statement.

These foods possess cancer-causing additives outside of meat’s normal cancer-causing agents:

The institute said processed meats were often salted or smoked, or had nitrates added to them, in order to extend their shelf-life which could be connected to the increased risk of stomach cancer, the fourth most common type of cancer.

If this information spooked you, you might want to consider Dr. Fuhrman’s advice, “The best bet for overall health is significantly limit or eliminated all types of meat—red and white.”

I posted the following up on the PETA blog I really doubt they will have the balls to approve it.

1. there are studies that have tied cancer to eating too many carrots, kinds of bubble gum, and a million other things. You can't trust every study you read, but everything in moderation is a pretty safe bet.

2. Propaganda. Really? "hot people don't eat meat because cute things get hurt in the process"? Laboring in rice patties in Vietnam isn't exactly cruelty free you douche.

3. There is a huge difference between swamp gasses being released by animal fecal matter, and the crap coming out the back of the diesel truck hauling your veggies across the country. More volume? maybe, more destructive? No, humans have that dubious honor on lock-down.

4. Will it make you fat? I already mentioned everything in moderation, but there is a nation of body builders and fitness enthusiasts that can attest to meat being their best source of protein to maintain the lean muscle mass they use to be in shape and enjoy life. See, I didn't even go into how much better Jessica Simpson looks than ANY vegan I've ever met.

5. I would love for every one of you to go have a big handful of grain at a farm. There is a reason that crap ends up on farms and not in africa fighting the problem of too many people breeding. Wide-scale birth regulation would do alot more then sending them shitty grain so they can feast on bad food while they rot in their terrible living conditions.

GOOD DAY>

no wonder jessica simpson looks so fat, she eats too much meat

Meat will make you fat? I've lost 35 pounds in the past year and a half and one thing that helped was going back to eating meat.

I gained weight as a vegetarian. I had to eat more often because vegetarian food burned off faster. And I ate very well, whole grains, vegetables, beans, lentils, etc.

What helped me lose weight was eating lots of lean meat and working out.

Vegetarianism is based on a lot of bull shit. A lot of animal rights activists consider animals to be better than humans. Just like a lot of environmentalists put the environment before humans, and consider humans to be a plague on "mother nature." They will tell you whatever they need to tell you so that no more animals die. They don't give a shit about your health and they'll twist the results of health studies to suit their agenda. Look up the head of PETA, Ingrid Newkirk.

She says things like:

"I am not only uninterested in having children. I am opposed to having children. Having a purebred human baby is like having a purebred dog; it is nothing but vanity, human vanity."

What? Definitely someone who has a reasonable outlook on life and how people should live.

#152 - Knowing that would require that I don't skip over your posts as I usually do.

@ 94.

"Some people have bad eating habits whether they are vegetarian or not and are overweight. The point is that being vegetarian is healthier than being a meat eater if one practices a balance diet and eats in moderation."

The point really is that practicing a balanced diet and eating in moderation is healthier than not doing so. Whether or not to incorporate meat into that balanced diet is a personal decision, and there are risks you have to take into consideration either way. Being vegetarian is not inherently healthier than eating meat, as the fat vegos that everyone here seems to know attest to. It's certainly not inherently less healthy, either, and a vegetarian who has made the decision to eat properly is likely to be healthier simply because they are more aware of what they are putting into their system.

PETA's new motto - "We'll make up any bullshit we want".

#164 said everything else that needs to be said.

Also, dating a vegan recently was probably one of the most annoying things I've ever dealt with in my life. "Yes, you pick the restaurant this time dear, just like the last 15 times!"

All animal rights activist want is for animals to be treated humanely. If livestock is raised for human consumption then for goodness sakes raise them humanely and slaughter them humanely too. The problem with factory farms is lack of government regulations and the consumers don't seem to mind eating chemical laced meat.

160

This is why one should eat organic fruits and vegetables because the carrots you mention were not organic grown and contain pesticides that can cause cancer. I am a vegetarian body builder and get my high protein from soy products and soy milk.

160

This is why one should eat organic fruits and vegetables because the carrots you mention were not organic grown and contain pesticides that can cause cancer. I am a vegetarian body builder and get my high protein from soy products and soy milk.

#166

As a meat eater, I will still agree with you. More people need to educate themselves on the process of how modern processed food and meat is made. A really good book on the subject is "Omnivore's Dilemma".

@156

Amusing, thanks.

I am 44 years old and do bong hits instead. I look like I’m in my 30s. It does my ego good to know that I have a better figure than a lot of females half my age. I love all the attention I get from the young and middle aged.

@Jimbo

When it comes to human meat I find red heads to the most edible.

Still in the land of the morning calm. Anyounghaseyo!

i just want to say I LOVE ANIMALS......especially in gravy.

i know that the vegetarians are getting a hrad deal when they should'nt as not all vegetarians=peta supporters. but if you are a peta supporter-you should expect some flack as you are supporting a hypocritical organisation.

if you don't want to eat meat for ethical reasons that great. but if you approach me, as a peta supporter, and tell me that eating meat is murder-what about all the cats and dogs that were given to peta in good faith of being given good homes only to be killed and dumped into a skipat the back of peta offices?

lets face it-peta is all about making money. so if peta wanna step up and tell people to stop killing animals-maybe they should take their advice and stop killing animals.
and politely fuck off.

I think eating meat is normal, but so many americans think they need meat three meals a day and you don't. Eating a sensible amount and trying to only eat organically raised animals is just fine.

But people who eat at McDonalds three times a week, and eat two dozen wings in one sitting are just kinda of disgusting and hurting themselves and the planet

Of the 4 thousand pro-vegetarian messages I've seen, about 12 of them have been backed with factual information. The rest have consisted of name calling and insults. Way to go PETA- These types of comments really make me take your organization seriously.

@159

1. i never get why people say shit like that like it's helpful. well, it's too late. this hypothetical person already had them. what now? would it make you happy if she left them to die? less meat eaters that way.

2. eh if everyone had common sense, there'd be a lot less fat people, vegetarians and meat eaters alike. that's where nutritionists come in.

5. no, no, you're doing it wrong. if it can be proven that eating meat resulted in them getting bigger brains, then that is fact. what would've happened if they had gotten their nutrition from other sources is irrelevant. too bad they didn't have nutritionists to tell them what to eat. or better yet, common sense.

6. influence meat eaters to become vegetarians? i don't care who eats what, you're not gonna get the whole human population to stop eating meat by listing vegetarian celebs on the message board of a site that mocks celebrities. so stop trying to shut down people who just want both sides of this endless debate to shut up. get back to being superficial or get the fuck out.

7. 157 said she doesn't care what the studies say, so that whole blurb was a waste of copy/paste.

maybe just maybe real girls eat meat is a metaphor

Hey PETA, just for that comment, I'm going hunting in my back yard tomorrow. I'll rape the corpses and mail them to you - paid by receiver.

#102, I enjoyed reading the Paul and Linda McCartney quotes. I heard Paul would like someone to eat her now.

PETA is a bunch of fuckin hippies, Its ok to eat meat, jesus says so in the bible. p.s Free Michael Vick

the vegetarians I know who are thin were also hospitalized for anorexia. just say'n. But they're so beautiful!

That being said, the girl from PETA should probably be more offended by the sexual reference. Not that a girl shouldn't get her fill of protien daily... but y'know. ...

#163 - Obviously not this time, cupcake...

Don't kid yourself Jimmy. If a cow ever got the chance, he'd eat you and everyone you care about!

I am a PETA member and proud of it. I am also Agnostic. There are crazy PETA people but this is true with all groups. All the vegetarians I know are tanned, toned, and healthy. Perhaps it is because we live in Southern California by the beach. The anorexic females you talk about are not true vegetarians because they have an eating disorder.

#175 pretty much said it all for me.

#159 - my motto is pretty much live and let live. I don't give a shit what you eat. I don't care if you peel bark off trees and eat that for lunch every day. Too bad you can't do the same.

Some meat eaters give me a hard time for being vegetarian and I just ignore them while watching them eat their chemical laced meat.

Seriously..... the whole PETA members and the vegetarians freaking out.... why? i seriously though MEAT was an innuendo for PENIS ... hmmm or like #2 said, do i have to get my mind out of the gutter?

#186

She must not be good at it because John Mayer dumped her.

este tema es una idiotez!!! quien quiera comer carne q lo haga!!! me enferman los vegetarianos q dicen q los animales sufren cuando los mtan para comer! acaso el leon no se come viva a la zebra que sufre como la reputamadre, o el oso a los peces???!!! uhhhhh ebtonces matemos a todos los osos y leones por malos y crueles!! esto es infantil.... una cosa es matar por comer y otra muy distinta es matar por deporte, pieles o divercion, para lo cual no estoy d acuerdo.... ademas.... las plantas no tienen sistema nervioso central pero tb son seres vivos a los cuales matas para comer, al igual q los insectos.... mucha d esta gente es FALSA y ni siquiera sabe bien porq no come carne! y lo peor d todo es q no respeten a los demas que si lo hacen...
igual jessica es una estupida por confrontar con esa remera, q haga lo que quiera , no es necesario q lo cuente publicamente... y ellos dicen que no ser vegetariano engorda???? tengo mucho amigos veganos con partes del cuerpo q se les fisuran constantemente por falta d alimentos escenciales
ningun extremo es bueno!!!!!!!!!!

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this theme is a stupidity!!! who want to eat meat q do it!!! the vegetarian q make ill me say q the animals suffer when the mtan to eat! perhaps the leon is not eaten alive to the zebra that suffers as the reputamadre, or the bear to the fish? ??!!! uhhhhh ebtonces we kill all the bears and lions by evils and cruel!! this is childlike. ... a thing is to kill for another very different one is to kill for sport, skins or divercion, for which I am not d agreement. ... ademas. ... the plants do not have central nervous system but tb are alive beings to which you kill to eat, to the equal one q the insects. ... a lot of d this people is FALSE and not even knows well porq does not eat meat! and the worse thing d all is q they respect not to the They do... equal jessica is an estupida by confronting with that oarswoman, q do what want, is not necessary q count it publicamente... and they say that not to be vegetarian grows fat? ??? I have a lot of friends veganos with parts of the body q itself them fisuran constantly by lack d food escenciales ningun extreme is good

Being vegetarian makes my pussy tight and wet 24-7!

I guess Jessica doesn't want to end up like this:

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-wellbeing/healthy-living/how-our-vegan-diet-made-us-ill-848322.html

i agree, she totally wore this shirt to start something. she needs the publicity! however, i do know exactly where she got this shirt. from a steakhouse in new york called primehouse new york. she must have been in nyc recently. i live in nyc and have been to the restaurant numerous times and have seen the shirt on sale there. i am a meat eater (and this restaurant serves delicious steaks)and i love it! peta needs to realize there are people out there that love meat and will eat it.

Without the proper balance of amino acids you can do permanent and irreversible damage to your brain. Yes you can get these amino acids from only a vegan diet but it is nearly impossible to do so.

Our bodies (mostly our brains) absolutely NEED the proper balance of proteins and it is easiest to get them from Animal sources. Do we eat too much meat? Absolutely YES but doing without it requires a great deal of effort to remain healthy.

yeah, my girl eats meat! so i got the 'real girls eat meat' t-shirt!! get it...
http://www.moewampum.com

PETA is for suckas. Meat rules.

@159

"If a lady making $10.50 an hour cannot support children properly by giving them healthy food she shouldn't of had kids."

I was going to stay out of this but what a stupid and ignorant comment to make. How dare you comment on a person's right to have children. You've obviously never been in a situation where you had to make crucial choices where the budget is super slim. I'm a single mom and I got laid off from my job due to the economy. Does that mean I shouldn't have had a child because I didn't think 4 years into the future and realize that I'd get laid off and be without income while I scramble to find another job? Sure, I had savings but I had to make that money stretch until I had paychecks coming in again. And I don't care what arguments you state, buying healthier food does cost more. Whole wheat products are nearly twice as expensive as white. Fresh fruit is more expensive and goes bad a lot quicker than canned. And meat makes a meal stretch further.

That comment that PETA made about how meat makes you fat (also for the fact they made that comment in a way that makes ex-anorexic chicks that are eating healthy again to become anorexic again) is absolute bullshit.

PETA, you have made yourself go even further down on my shit list. This is the kind of crap why the majority of people don't take you seriously and label you as a crazy cult.

Go fuck yourselves.

Love it!!!!! I just found the shirt on cafepress- http://www.cafepress.com/girlseatmeat

HITLER WAS A VEGETARIAN

I guess the scrawny little meat-free brats with "cute" spray-tans that can beat their brothers off during tennis need someone to look up to...

=)

I'm not a TOTAL vegetarian, but I do think that Jessica Simpson's shirt was ignorant and offensive to a lot of people. If you ask me, there's nothing wrong with eating meat per se, but the modern meat industry is f***ed up beyond imagination. Most people just don't want to think about it. I respect PETA for taking a stand even though it means taking endless crap from people who just want to keep going about their ignorant ways.

Look, stupid.

Real Girls Eat Meat - She's saying she loves DI*K. She'll suck it, and she'll stuff it inside her.

Gee. PETA - you guy thing too in the box. What's your IQ - 2?

I think your all stupid. Your fighting over a chick that thought chicken of the sea was really chicken. I've lived in my car children or not it is more affordable on a smaller income to eat any thing that comes from an animal. Hitler was also a crazy lunatick that tried to kill every jewish person in the world and had lamp shades made out of human skins for his wife. Have you ever even read his autobiography. If you have read it than you would have realized that he wasn't that inteligent he was just trying to be politicaly sophisticated so when people read his book they would be like wow he is so smart. It was his generals that were the brains of the operations.

P.S People will you please stop being so ignorant and use that brain power and energy into more important and pressing matters in the world. Children are dieing in third world countries. ALSO CHICKENS ARE NOT ONE OF GODS CREATURES BUT AN ACTUAL HYBRID THAT IS DERIVED FROM THE RED AND GREY FOWL AND ORIGINALLY COME FROM INDIA they were bred specifically so they could have a fowl that had more meat especially in the breast region and farm raised turkies at this point are completely geneticaly mutated. Cause real wild turky is all dark meat they don't have white meat like almost any wild bird. Last but not least can you really prove that that list of famouse inteligent people were really vegitariens? Did you know them or are you taking some one elses word for it. "read every thing you can and question every thing you read" starr my quote. Cause you don't know what those people were thinking and also every one has a mind of there own every one perceives things differently if we didn't we would all be the same and life would be really boring. like Hitlers perceptions of WWII and the Jew's perception on WWII. Every body sees things differently. So unless you really knew those very wonderful inteligent mean don't bring them into a very ignorant and trivial argument and deface them. They were better than that thats why there names and accomplishments are going down in history and your is not. Cause your not inteligent enough to pick the right battles to fight.

I have started reading this book and love it so far! I just couldn't wait for it to go in to paper back.