How to Argue With a Meat Eater Quotes

“The truth is, animal products are tasty.
However taste does not provide a moral justification for what we do to animals, so vegans go vegan because they recognise that life is more important than taste.”
― Ed Winters, How to Argue With a Meat Eater

“Even if we overlook animal welfare, can God be happy with the destruction of the planet He created? As animal farming is the number-one cause of deforestation, habitat loss and species extinction, the idea that God condones the practice seems contradictory.”
― Ed Winters, How to Argue With a Meat Eater

“Authors of good science change their behaviours based on their findings; authors of bad science change their findings based on their behaviours.”
― Ed Winters, How to Argue With a Meat Eater

“If we establish that what we do to animals is an issue of ethics, that means that we then need an ethical justification to condone what we do to them. And the fundamental point of this book is to show that no such justification exists.”
― Ed Winters, How to Argue With a Meat Eater

“Kyle: I believe as people that we are above animals.
Me: Are you above a horse?
Kyle: Yes.
Me: So why not kill the horse then?
Kyle: Because I don’t have to.
Me: You don’t have to kill the cows or chickens or pigs either.
Kyle: To fulfil what I feel I need from my diet I do.
Me: Need or want?
Kyle: Yeah, that’s fair.
Me: Is it a need or a want?
Kyle: I guess you’re right.”
― Ed Winters, How to Argue With a Meat Eater

“One of the easiest ways to do this is to be mindful of how we use words like ‘you’ and ‘your’. During a conversation with a meat eater called Cam, he declared that he ‘definitely loves animals’. I could have said, ‘Proclaiming that you love animals while still eating meat means you’re a hypocrite,’ but I instead said, ‘Can you love them if you pay for them to be killed needlessly?’ In response he smiled knowingly and said, ‘See, that’s a good question.”
― Ed Winters, How to Argue With a Meat Eater

“What people want to be true. Often becomes what they think is true.”
― Ed Winters, How to Argue With a Meat Eater

“Making positive choices in our lives is not about believing ourselves to be the sole person who can change something in its entirety, but instead recognising that we have a responsibility to play our part in helping to bring about that change.”
― Ed Winters, How to Argue With a Meat Eater

“Exploring the arguments against something can often increase our conviction that we are right.”
― Ed Winters, How to Argue With a Meat Eater