“A man can live and be healthy without killing animals…

“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.” - Henry David Thoreau, On Civil Disobedience

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“Chickens raised for food today are … covered in excrement, they’re diseased, and they’re drugged up with all sorts of toxins that you are ingesting if you eat chickens. One recent study found that chicken flesh in this country has four times as much arsenic—yes, arsenic, the poison (which is used in the drugs the chickens are given) as any other meat … I have been a vegan for many years.” – Russell Simmons - View Quote Details on “Chickens raised for food today are … covered in excrement,…
“In the perfect world originally designed by God, man was meant to be a vegetarian.” - Rabbi Jacob Cohen, The Royal Table - View Quote Details on “In the perfect world originally designed by God, man was…
“Further, it should be clear that meat in itself as protein is not much superior to eggs or nuts and could not alter the evolution of the brain; if this were so this miracle food would have continued to enlarge humans’ brain size in succeeding years when much greater amounts of meat were consumed ” – Colin Spencer, The Heretic’s Feast - View Quote Details on “Further, it should be clear that meat in itself as…
“How will Man, that sanguinary Tyrant, be able to excuse himself from the charge of those innumerable cruelties inflicted on his unoffending subjects, committed to his care, and placed under his authority, by their common father?” - Soame Jenyns, On Cruelty to Animals - View Quote Details on “How will Man, that sanguinary Tyrant, be able to excuse…
“I drink soy milk, and that’s the right thing. ” - Howard Stern, Animal Times, Spring, 2008, p. 17 - View Quote Details on “I drink soy milk, and that’s the right thing. “…
“I do feel that spiritual progress does demand, at some stage, that we should cease to kill our fellow creatures for the satisfaction of our bodily wants.” - Mahatma Gandhi. - View Quote Details on “I do feel that spiritual progress does demand, at some…
An eminent Hindu quoted by Ralph Waldo Trine (1866-1958) in Every Living Creature, p. 32 - View Quote Details on An eminent Hindu quoted by Ralph Waldo Trine (1866-1958) in…
” I have often thought, if it was not for this tyranny which custom usurps over us, that men of any tolerable good-nature could never be reconcil’d to the killing of so many animals for their daily food. - Bernard Mandeville, On The Fable of the Bees - View Quote Details on ” I have often thought, if it was not for…
“No chemical carcinogen is nearly so important in causing human cancer as animal protein.” – Dr. T. Colin Campbell - View Quote Details on “No chemical carcinogen is nearly so important in causing human…
“If he be really and seriously seeking to live a good life, the first thing from which he will abstain will always be the use of animal food, because…its use is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an act which is contrary to the moral feeling-killing.” - Leo Tolstoy - View Quote Details on “If he be really and seriously seeking to live a…