“Animal life, sombre mystery. All nature protests against the barbarity…

“Animal life, sombre mystery. All nature protests against the barbarity of man, who misapprehends, who humiliates, who tortures his inferior brethren.” - Jules Michelet

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” Everything of persecution and revenge between man and man, and everything of cruelty to animals is a violation of moral duty.” - Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason - View Quote Details on ” Everything of persecution and revenge between man and man,…
“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…
“The most extraordinary workers I ever saw, the labourers in the mines of Chili, Live exclusively on vegetable food, including manny seeds of leguminous plants.” – Charles Darwin, quoted by C.W. Leadbeater in Vegetarianism and Occultism, 1913, p. 20 - View Quote Details on “The most extraordinary workers I ever saw, the labourers in…
“Until the age of twelve, then, I only lived on bread, milk-food, vegetables, and fruit. My health was not less robust on this account, nor my growth less rapid, and it was to this diet, perhaps, that I was indebted for that purity of feature, that exquisite sensibility of feeling, and that quiet gentleness of humor and character which I had preserved up to that period.” - Alphonse de Lamartine, On Les confidences - View Quote Details on “Until the age of twelve, then, I only lived on…
“Yeah, yeah, it means the same idea, that I don’t eat meat. You should only eat what you need. You can change your whole physiological makeup, you know, and you become almost dirty, dirty, you know, from what you eat. You know, the more red meat and blood we eat, the more bloodthirsty we get, the more violent we get. The more vegetarian food that we eat, the more peace is taken into us. ” - Ziggy Marley, PETA2.com interview - View Quote Details on “Yeah, yeah, it means the same idea, that I don’t…
“I was raised on flesh, more flesh, still flesh, always flesh. When I started to use reason and organized my code of principles, I included vegetarianism in it; but it was too late to execute it.”– Machado de Assis, A Semana, 5 de Março de 1893 - View Quote Details on “I was raised on flesh, more flesh, still flesh, always…
“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…
“The man who shed the blood of an Ox or a Sheep will be habituated more easily than another to witness the effusion of that of his fellow-creatures.” - Sir John Sinclair, Code of Health and Longevity - View Quote Details on “The man who shed the blood of an Ox or…
“Yet many Americans who have reluctantly given up their gas-guzzling cars would never think of questioning the resource costs of their grain-fed-meat diet. So let me try to give you some sense of the enormity of the resources flowing into livestock production in the United States. The consequences of a grain-fed-meat diet may be as severe as those of a nation of Cadillac drivers.” – Frances Moore Lappé, Diet for a Small Planet - View Quote Details on “Yet many Americans who have reluctantly given up their gas-guzzling…
“It is, i think, not going to far to say that every fact connected with the human organization goes to prove that man was originally formed a frugivorous animal. This opinion is principally derived from the formation of his teeth and of his digestive organs, as well as from the character of his skin, and the general structure of his limbs.” – Thomas Bell, Anatomy, physiology, and Diseases of the teeth - View Quote Details on “It is, i think, not going to far to say…