“All my life, I have been sickened by everything connected…

“All my life, I have been sickened by everything connected with meat-, fish-, and poultry eating. As a child, I saw apparently nice, kind people wring the necks of fowls, and I thought it foul; and I wondered if I could ever exert any influence to help bring such unworthiness to an end.” – Percy Grainger, American Vegetarian, Vol. V no. 4, Dec, 1946, p. 4

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“Every time we sit down to eat, we make a choice. Please choose vegetarianism. Do it for … animals. Do it for the environment, and do it for your health.” - Alec Baldwin, in the PETA website, he worked with PETA. - View Quote Details on “Every time we sit down to eat, we make a…
“Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self righteousness.” - Robert Hutchinson - View Quote Details on “Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill…
“It is interesting to note that scientific men all over the world are awakened to the fact that the flesh of animals as food is not a pure nutriment, but is mixed with poisonous substances, excrementitious in character, which are the natural results of animal life.”– Dr.John Harvey Kellogg, quoted by C.W. Leadbeater in Vegetarianism and Occultism, 1913, p. 14 - View Quote Details on “It is interesting to note that scientific men all over…
“Today it is generally accepted that although the earliest humans probably ate some meat, it was unlikely to have played a major role in their diet. Plants would have been a much more important source of food.” – Dr. Jane Goodall, Harvest for Hope - View Quote Details on “Today it is generally accepted that although the earliest humans…
“It is not my purpose here to discuss the question of vegetarianism, or to meet the objections that may be urged against it; though it must be admitted that of these objections not one can withstand a loyal and scrupulous inquiry. I, for my part, can affirm that those whom I have known to submit themselves to this regimen have found its result to be improved or restored health, marked addition of strength, and the acquisition by the mind of a clearness, brightness, well-being, such as might follow the release from some secular, loathsome, detestable dungeon.” - Maurice Maeterlinck, on The Buried Temple (le Temple Enseveli), III - The kingdoom of Matter, 5 - View Quote Details on “It is not my purpose here to discuss the question…
“Behold the Venus flytrap, the complete answer to the philosophy of vegetarianism” - Tom Edwards - View Quote Details on “Behold the Venus flytrap, the complete answer to the philosophy…
“If you can justify killing to eat meat, you can justify the conditions of the ghetto. I cannot justify either one.” - Dick Gregory. - View Quote Details on “If you can justify killing to eat meat, you can…
“Just as, in our days, exposure of children, combats of gladiators, torture of prisioners, and other atrocities are held to be scandalous and shameful, while in earlier times they were thought quite justifiable and right, so in the future will be the murder of animals, to feed upon their corpses, be pronounced to be immoral and indefensible.” – Wilhelm Zimmermann(1819-1885), The Way to Paradise - View Quote Details on “Just as, in our days, exposure of children, combats of…
“I think there’s something odd about eating another living anything.” – Shania Twain - View Quote Details on “I think there’s something odd about eating another living anything.”…
“This species of food [fruits and farinacea] is that which is most suited to man…” – Carl Linnaeus, Amaenitates academica, x., 8 - View Quote Details on “This species of food [fruits and farinacea] is that which…