“According to a University of California study, it takes 5,214…

“According to a University of California study, it takes 5,214 gallons of water to produce 1 pound of beef. That’s more than a year of daily showers in exchange for 4 hamburgers. Even more fun, you can drive in your car for 3 hours and leave all the lights on in your house while doing it and you’re greenhouse gas emissions will not equal what comes from the production of just one kilogram of beef.” - liveearth.org, Chicken or Beef? Or Vegetarian? Or Vegan?

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“While millions of people across the globe are faced with droughts and water shortages, much of the world’s water supply is quietly being diverted to animal agriculture. As the Western diet spreads to the rest of the world, even desert nations in Africa and the Middle East are pouring what little water they have into meat production.” - www.goveg.com - View Quote Details on “While millions of people across the globe are faced with…
“It is a specious but false reason to allege that, since man has acquired this taste, he ought to be permitted to indulge it – in the first place because Nature has not given him cooked flesh, and because several ages must have rolled away before fire was used. […] Nature, then, could have given man only raw or living flesh, and we know that it is repugnant to him over the whole extent of the earth.” – Jean Antoine Gleizes, Thalysie, 1840 - View Quote Details on “It is a specious but false reason to allege that,…
“Nothing can be more shocking and horrid than one of our kitchens sprinkled with blood, and abounding with the cries of expiring victims or with the limbs of dead animals scattered or hung up here and there.” -Alexandre Pope, The Guardian, May 21, 1713 - View Quote Details on “Nothing can be more shocking and horrid than one of…
Neal Barnard, M. D, Wramc Us Too, Inc Newsletter, 2003 - View Quote Details on Neal Barnard, M. D, Wramc Us Too, Inc Newsletter, 2003
“How would our society women like to spend the morning in a slaughterhouse, before they could procure their meat for evening dinner?” - Hereward Carrington, Natural Food of Man, p. 161 - View Quote Details on “How would our society women like to spend the morning…
” [Isaac Newton] thought it a very frightful inconsistency to believe that animals feel and at the same time to cause them to suffer. On this point his morality was in accord with is philosophy. […] This compassion, which he felt for no other animals, culminated in true charity for men. In truth, without humanity, a virtue which comprehends all virtues, the name of philosopher would be little deserved.” – Voltaire, Elements de la Philosophie de Newton - View Quote Details on ” [Isaac Newton] thought it a very frightful inconsistency to…
“The only justification for killing animals is the fact that man can keep a knife or an axe in his hands and is shrewd enough and selfish enough to do slaughter for what he thinks is his own good. The Old Testament has many passages where the passion for meat is considered to be evil. According to the Bible, it was only a compromise with so-called human nature that God had allowed people to eat meat.” - Isaac Bashevis Singer, from the foreword to Vegetarianism, a Way of Life - View Quote Details on “The only justification for killing animals is the fact that…
John Harvey Kellogg, quoted by Gail Davis in Vegetarian Food for Thought - View Quote Details on John Harvey Kellogg, quoted by Gail Davis in Vegetarian Food…
“Animal life, sombre mystery. All nature protests against the barbarity of man, who misapprehends, who humiliates, who tortures his inferior brethren.” - Jules Michelet - View Quote Details on “Animal life, sombre mystery. All nature protests against the barbarity…
“So-called farms today treat animals like so many boxes in a warehouse, chopping off beaks and tails and genitals with no painkillers at all, inflicting third-degree burns repeatedly by branding cows, … and just a horrible catalog of abuses that, if done to dogs or cats, would be illegal on grounds of animal cruelty.” – James Cromwell, in the PETA website - View Quote Details on “So-called farms today treat animals like so many boxes in…