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Meat

culinary name for animal flesh eaten as food

Meat is the flesh of an animal which is eaten. Often the use of the term is limited to the flesh of mammals.

God sends meat, and the Devil sends cooks.
Of the inlanders most do not sow corn, but live on milk and flesh and clothe themselves in skins.

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  • Bob—who must be the world’s best grandfather—smiles patiently while I futz then leads me downstairs, left down one hallway, then through a door with a “no cameras” sign prominently displayed.
    I ask why he doesn’t allow photography.
    “It’s easy for somebody to use a picture out of context,” he says, aware of the political issues that surround what I’m about to see. In 2008, undercover videos of an Iowa pig farm made by the animal rights activist group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals sparked an investigation into farm practices, and an undercover video of cattle in Chino, Calif., made by the Humane Society led the USDA to recall 143 million pounds of beef, the largest beef recall in history. Animal rights activists have done everything from deliberately poisoning meat supplies to lighting themselves on fire outside of fur stores. (This last act was done just up the street from me, in Portland.) At a conference Bob attended 15 years ago, a man in a Holstein cow costume hid under a table, waited until the talk was well under way, then jumped up and screamed, “Meat is murder; meat is death,” before running away.
    When Bob tells me this story, I think about that man in the cow costume, how his mother, like my mother, probably told him he should know where his food came from. He went one way; I went another.
  • Interiores plerique frumenta non serunt, sed lacte et carne vivunt pellibusque sunt vestiti.
    • Of the inlanders most do not sow corn, but live on milk and flesh and clothe themselves in skins.
    • Julius Caesar, Gallic War, V, 14, as translated by Henry John Edwards (1917)
  • O for a plump fat leg of Mutton,
    Veale, Lambe, Capon, Pigge, and Conney,
    None is happy but a Glutton,
    None an Asse but who wants money.
  • There is boiled meat, and roast meat, and meat from the coal,
    You may chop it, and tear it, and gnash it for fun,
    An hairy goat’s-skin contains the whole.
  • At even ye shall eat flesh, and in the morning ye shall be filled with bread; and ye shall know that I am the LORD your God
  • Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh
  • Some hae meat and canna eat,
    And some would eat that want it;
    But we hae meat, and we can eat,
    And sae the Lord be thankit.
  • God sends meat, and the Devil sends cooks.
  • I have always eaten animal flesh with a somewhat guilty conscience.
  • Outdid the meat, outdid the frolic wine.
  • I didn't squawk about the steak, dear. I merely said I didn't see that old horse that used to be tethered outside here.
    • W. C. Fields, to a waitress, in Never Give a Sucker an Even Break (1941).
  • Not eating meat is a decision, eating meat is an instinct.
  • I wouldn't touch a hot dog unless you put a condom on it! You realize that the job of a hot dog is to use parts of the animal that the Chinese can't figure out how to make into a belt?
    • Bill Maher, Bill Maher: I'm Swiss (2005), timecode 1:11:10.
  • Meat is murder.
    • Original author unknown; slogan used by certain animal rights groups, reported in Maureen Duffy, Men and Beasts: An Animal Rights Handbook‎ (1984), p. 142, as having been painted on the wall of a Surrey, England butcher shop by ALF activists on April 4, 1983.
 
If we're not supposed to eat animals, how come they're made out of meat?
  • We used to have a lot of fun. We never had any problems. We always ate. The fact that we didn't have steak? Who had steak?
    • Jesse Owens in Tony Gentry, Jesse Owens, Champion Athlete (1990).
  • If you don't eat your meat, you can't have any pudding! How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat!
  • No, I won't condemn anyone for putting ketchup on a hot dog. This is the land of the free. And if someone wants to put ketchup on a hot dog and actually eat the awful thing, that is their right.
    It is also their right to put mayo or chocolate syrup or toenail clippings or cat hair on a hot dog.
    Sure, it would be disgusting and perverted, and they would be shaming themselves and their loved ones. But under our system of government, it is their right to be barbarians.
  • A king is a thing men have made for their own sakes, for quietness' sake. Just as in a family one man is appointed to buy the meat.
  • O! beware, my lord, of jealousy;
    It is the green-ey'd monster which doth mock
    The meat it feeds on.
  • It may indeed be doubted, whether butcher's meat is any where a necessary of life. Grain and other vegetables, with the help of milk, cheese, and butter, or oil, where butter is not to be had, it is known from experience, can, without any butcher's meat, afford the most plentiful, the most wholesome, the most nourishing, and the most invigorating diet.
    • Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations (1776), book V, ch. II, part II, Appendix to Articles I and II.
  • 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, Writings on Civil Disobedience and Nonviolence (1886).
  • God sendeth and giveth both mouth and the meat.
  • This dish of meat is too good for any but anglers, or very honest men.
  • In all the round world of Utopia there is no meat. There used to be. But now we cannot stand the thought of slaughter-houses. And, in a population that is all educated, and at about the same level of physical refinement, it is practically impossible to find anyone who will hew a dead ox or pig. We never settled the hygienic question of meat-eating at all. This other aspect decided us. I can still remember, as a boy, the rejoicings over the closing of the last slaughter-house.

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