Red Meat Consumption

Famous quotes containing the words red, meat and/or consumption:

    “Her fortune, too, lies there,
    Converted into cool hard steel
    And right red velvet lining;
    While over her tan impassivity
    Shot silk is shining.”
    —Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

    “But meat commendeth us not to God: for neither, if we eat, are we the better; neither, if we eat not, are we the worse.”
    —Bible: New Testament 1 Corinthians 8:8.

    “The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods.”
    —Thorstein Veblen (1857–1929)