project 3 digital documentation of quotes and text used.

Why do you think it is acceptable for you to eat meat?

 “Because the animals were put on the planet for us to use.  For food, clothes, blankets, etc.”

-Maria Parise, 18, student

 “Because it’s what our ancestors have done for forever and it’s our natural instinct.”

-Zack Patton, 19, student

 “I eat it cuz it tastes good and I get all the nutrients from it.”

-Justin Nowakowski, 19, student

 “It's a practice that's been around for ages and even though it's bad for you, it's still a form of nourishment. That's not to say it is necessarily right to eat meat seeing is nourishment can also be, say, cannibalism. It can sustain you to eat the meat of a person and the only reason it isn't widely practiced is because it's found immoral. If most of the world thought eating an animal was immoral, everyone here would probably be a vegetarian.”

-Earl Rigsby, 19, student

 “Because we’re the superior being.”

-Julien Robinson, 18, student

 “Although it is morally acceptable for humans to eat animals since animals eat other animals, I don’t feel good about it myself since I respect animals and there are better ways to get protein than eating once living things that are injected with a lot of disgusting things and chemicals.”

-Tessa Konkol, 18, student

 

 In the United States, more than twenty-seven billion animals are slaughtered every year in 5,700 slaughterhouses and processing plants employing 527,000 workers; in 2007, 28.1 billion pounds of beef were consumed in the U.S. alone.

 “If anyone wants to save the planet, all they have to do is just stop eating meat.  That’s the single most important thing you can do.  It’s staggering when you think about it.  Vegetarianism takes care of so many things in one shot: ecology, famine, cruelty.”

 

-Paul McCartney

 

“Let thy food be thy medecine”

-Hippocrates 460-377 BC

 "My opinion is well known. I do not regard flesh food as necessary for us at any stage and under any clime in which it is possible for human beings ordinarily to live. I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species.”

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

-Mahatma Ghandhi 1869 -1948

“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 DaVinci 1452 -1519

 “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 1879-1955 Physicist, Nobel Prize winner 1921

 

“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 1847-1931

 

 “Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.”

 

-James Froude 1818-1894 (Professor of Modern History, Oxford)

 

 "One night I couldn't sleep, and I was up and just Googling random stuff, and I'm like, 'Hmmm, PETA.' I saw all the videos, and I just thought it was horrible. It's animal cruelty. A lot of it has to do with knowing what happens to the animals, and it really bothered me, and so I will not eat meat."

 

-Kellie Pickler

 

 “Recognize meat for what it really is: the antibiotic-and pesticide-laden corpse of a tortured animal.”

—  Ingrid Newkirk, founder of PETA

 

 “If we really know a 100th part of the agony of animals we should rather starve than profit by it.”

—  Max Tooley

 

“For as long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings, he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed he who sows the seeds of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love.”

—  Pythagoras, 569 BC-475 BC

 

 “The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.”

—  Alice Walker, The Color Purple, 1982

 

 Auschwitz begins whenever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they are only animals.”

—  Theodor Adorno, German philosopher, sociologist

 

“I know in my soul that to eat a creature who is raised to be eaten, and who never has a chance to be a real being, is unhealthy… You’re just eating misery.”

- Alice Walker, 1944

 

 “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, 45-125 AD