“As long as Man continues to be the ruthless destroyer…

“As long as Man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love.” - Pythagoras

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” My mother was convinced, and on this head I have retained her firm belief, that to kill animals for the purpose of feeding on their flesh is one of the most deplorable and shameful infirmities of the human state; that it is one of those curses cast upon man either by his fall, or by the obduracy of his own perversity.” - Alphonse de Lamartine, On Les confidences - View Quote Details on ” My mother was convinced, and on this head I…
“Jesus’ message is about love and compassion, but there is nothing loving or compassionate at factory farms and slaughterhouses, where billions of animals endure miserable lives and die violent deaths. Jesus mandates kindness and mercy for all God’s creatures. He’d be appalled by the suffering that we inflict on animals today to indulge our acquired taste for their flesh.” - Bruce Friedrich, Is Eating Meat A Catholic Sin? - View Quote Details on “Jesus’ message is about love and compassion, but there is…
” 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…
“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…
“People sometimes forget that there are vegetables and vegetables. There are vegetables that have not so much nutriment in them; but there are others – all the farinaceous foods such as wheat and barley – which contain a greater amount of nutriment than beef or any other animal meat.” – Professor Francis William Newman (1805-1897), President of the Vegetarian Society, quoted in the International Vegetarian Union website - View Quote Details on “People sometimes forget that there are vegetables and vegetables. There…
“What we often fail to recognize is how efficient a vegan diet is. Less land, less water, more food for our spiraling population.” – Ed Begley, Jr. - View Quote Details on “What we often fail to recognize is how efficient a…
“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…
“Were the belief one day to become general that man could dispense with animal food, there would ensue not only a great economic revolution–for a bullock, to produce one pound of meat, consumes more than a hundred of provender–but a moral improvement as well, not less important and certainly more sincere and more lasting than might follow a second appearance on the earth of the Envoy of the Father, come to remedy the errors and omissions of his former pilgrimage.” – Maurice Maeterlick, The Buried Temple, III The kingdom of Matter, 5 - View Quote Details on “Were the belief one day to become general that man…
“No humane being, past the thoughtless age of boyhood, will wantonly murder any creature which holds its life by the same tenure that he does.” - Henry David Thoreau - View Quote Details on “No humane being, past the thoughtless age of boyhood, will…
“Don´t live to eat, eat to live” – Antoni Gaudi, (Gaudi was a vegetarian), Juan Bergós Massó, Gaudí, el hombre y la obra, Barcelona : Universidad Politécnica, 1974 - View Quote Details on “Don´t live to eat, eat to live” – Antoni Gaudi,…