“I intensely dislike the job of butchering a farm animal. The pig we butchered today squealed unmercifully when it was shot. It thought we were going to feed it but instead it received a bullet to its brain. Eating animals is so uncivilized, I am beginning to understand why GB Shaw, Tolstoy and Albert Einstein are vegetarians…”

March 4, 1942

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "I intensely dislike the job of butchering a farm animal. The pig we butchered today squealed unmercifully when it was s…" by Virgil John Tangborn?
Virgil John Tangborn photo
Virgil John Tangborn 13
1920–1944

Related quotes

Wendell Berry photo
Jeremy Corbyn photo

“I am vegetarian. … I became one at 20 when I was working in a pig farm. I got attached to the pigs and I couldn’t stand the thought that they would have to go off to be slaughtered.”

Jeremy Corbyn (1949) British Labour Party politician

" A welcome in the hillside http://www.camdennewjournal.com/welcome-hillside", interview with John Gulliver, in Camden New Journal (13 August 2015).
2000s

Isadora Duncan photo
Norman Mailer photo
Narendra Modi photo

“Do they want to protect the hapless animals or the butchers?”

Narendra Modi (1950) Prime Minister of India

2002, Modi election campaign speech, 2002
Context: Please ask Congressmen whether their candidates are in favour of running illegal butcher houses? Do they want to protect the hapless animals or the butchers?

Brigitte Bardot photo
Daniel Negreanu photo

“As I learned more about veganism, and animal farms and the way animals were treated, it just disgusted me to the point where I could never imagine eating animals again.”

Daniel Negreanu (1974) Canadian poker player

“Kid Poker – Vegan Daniel Negeanu Dominates the Card Scene,” interview with Sophie Jackson of PokerListings.com, reported in VeganLifeMag.com (7 August 2016) https://www.veganlifemag.com/daniel-negeanu-vegan-poker/.

Carol J. Adams photo
Bruce Friedrich photo

“It is a crime against humanity, while people are starving, to funnel massive amounts of crops through animals so we can eat animals when those crops should be feeding human beings.”

Bruce Friedrich (1969) Member of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals

Bruce Friedrich on Protein Alternatives and the Good Food Institute https://hearthisidea.com/episodes/bruce, Interview on the Hear This Idea podcast, 2021

Related topics