Ethical Eaters Gifts

'Now do you believe me?'

"They say we destroy plants – such as potatoes, corn and carrots – and they're boycotting us. They're fruitarians."

"Boneless, gluten free, vegan, grass fed, free range, bananas."

I want to buy green. I've got a checklist. Ok. Are they grown without pesticides? Yes. Trees. From local farms? Yes. And raised free-range? I believe that's your Christmas dinner.

"It's okay to only eat things that fell from a tree...but the gardener??!

"Mom, are we vegetarians for ethical or religious reasons?"

"I love this place—its food, its ambience, and its political goals."

What do you mean you prefer the sound of the sign of the right?! What part of 'either way we're dead' do you not understand?

View to the Future

"Wait—did you procure that worm humanely?"

"Wild-caught, farm-raised, lab-grown, beach-found, or aquarium-harvested."

'I'm a vegetarian.' - 'If it's so wrong to eat animals, why are they made out of meat?'

"Mom, I'm at work – let me call you back after I finish stocking milk for wealthy vegans who like beet juice in their meat alternatives so they can still get that bloody effect when cooking without guilt."

'Nowadays we want all our food to be ethically sourced, Personally I'd be happy if it was all chocolated sauced,'

'May future generations forgive you for eating that sausage...'

'Is it guilt that when you eat us that we are no longer called pigs but bacon, pork chops or ham?'

"Is the asparagus farm-raised or wild-caught?"

'I'm from P.E.T.A.. Are you the one who called about animal-rights abuses?'

'Now, think hard about it: Do you want to be known as the one who ate the last Dodo?'

"The lobster dinner is thirty eight dollars, or for ten dollars extra you can have him returned to the sea."

'Personally I can't see anything wrong with GM crops!'

"Being vegan or vegetarian isn't enough anymore. From now on I will only cook stuff I stepped in on the sidewalk."

'It's going to be a vegan.'

"We would like to be genetically modified to taste like Brussels sprouts."

'And we'll give you all the carcinogens you can eat.'

"All our vegetables are organic, ethically sourced and stunned before being boiled."

A boy who loves cows/burgers

"On second thought, just give me the ham and forget the roast beef."

"Is it free-range?"

'Beef Counselor - mad cow, foot and mouth, diet, nutrition, ethics'

"Nothing is organic, local or sustainable. Now, can we get started?"

'Preparing free-range chicken requires an extremely patient chef.'

"How 'local' is the fish?"

'What do you have that hasn't been cloned?'

"Sure, ha ha, it’s all ‘free-range’ beef."