“As I cannot kill, I cannot authorize others to kill…

“As I cannot kill, I cannot authorize others to kill. Do you see? If you are buying from a butcher you are authorizing him to kill – to kill helpless, dumb creatures which neither you nor I could kill ourselves.” - Paul Troubetzkoy, quoted in ”Vegetarian Food for Thought

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“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? - View Quote Details on “According to a University of California study, it takes 5,214…
” Grant animals a ray of reason, imagine what a frightful nightmare the world is to them: a dream of cold-blooded men, blind and deaf, cutting their throats, slitting them open, gutting them, cutting them into pieces, cooking them alive, sometimes laughing at them and their contortions as they writhe in agony. Is there anything more atrocious among the cannibals of Africa? To a man whose mind is free there is something even more intolerable in the sufferings of animals than in the sufferings of men. For with the latter it is at least admitted that suffering is evil and that the man who causes it is a criminal. But thousands of animals are uselessly butchered every day without a shadow of remorse. If any man were to refer to it, he would be thought ridiculous.—And that is the unpardonable crime. ” - Romain Rolland, On Jean-Christophe - View Quote Details on ” Grant animals a ray of reason, imagine what a…
“If you could feel or see the suffering, you wouldn’t think twice. Give back life. Don’t eat meat.” – Kim Basinger - View Quote Details on “If you could feel or see the suffering, you wouldn’t…
“I am experiencing an unprecedented surge of health and my energy has soared.” – Ilya Repin, in Vegetarianskoe obozrenie (after he became a vegetarian) - View Quote Details on “I am experiencing an unprecedented surge of health and my…
“I was in a sushi bar and it dawned on me – how could I discriminate between a cow and a fish?” - Carré Otis, Animal Times, Summer, 2007, p. 4 - View Quote Details on “I was in a sushi bar and it dawned on…
“Life remains immoral or only falsely moral, if there is cruelty and killing for the satisfaction of our daily needs.” - Swami Avyaktananda - View Quote Details on “Life remains immoral or only falsely moral, if there is…
” [A]lthough we think we are one and we act as if we are one, human beings are not natural carnivores. When we kill animals to eat them, they end up killing us because their flesh, which contains cholesterol and saturated fat, was never intended for human beings, who are natural herbivores.” - Dr. William C. Roberts, M.D., editor of the authoritative American Journal of Cardiology - View Quote Details on ” [A]lthough we think we are one and we act…
“I, for my part, wonder of what sort of feeling, mind or reason that man was possessed who was first to pollute his mouth with gore, and allow his lips to touch the flesh of a murdered being; who spread his table with the mangled forms of dead bodies, and claimed as daily food and dainty dishes what but now were beings endowed with movement, with perception and with voice. For the sake of some little mouthful of flesh we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that portion of life and time it had been born into the world to enjoy.” - Plutarch, Moralia. - View Quote Details on “I, for my part, wonder of what sort of feeling,…
” [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…
“Linda McCartney sausages were my favorite. They’re much better than eating real sausages and you don’t have to contemplate half way through exactly what s inside them…. You can have them, a bit of fried bread, tinned tomatoes. Delicious. ” – Simon Cowell - View Quote Details on “Linda McCartney sausages were my favorite. They’re much better than…