“Based on the fossil record one big spurt in hominid…

“Based on the fossil record one big spurt in hominid cranial capacity seems to have occurred with the appearance of Homo erectus approximately 1.75 million years ago, long before red meat could have been a regular part of hominid diets.” – Donna Hart and Robert W. Sussman, Man the Hunted, expanded edition, p. 256

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“Since I stopped eating meat, I have noticed that my digestion is better, my thoughts are better, and I run instead of walking. […] I eat vegetables and all kinds of vegetarian food. I am a vegetarian. I am not a meat-eater.” - Vaslav Nijinsky, The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky - View Quote Details on “Since I stopped eating meat, I have noticed that my…
“The table was well spread with all manner of fruit, beans, greenstuff and good pies…but of flesh and fish there was never a sign.” – Shmuel Yosef Agnon, The Bridal Canopy - View Quote Details on “The table was well spread with all manner of fruit,…
“It is demonstrated that brutes are rational animals, reason in most of them being indeed imperfect, of which, nevertheless, they are not entirely deprived. Since, however, justice pertains to rational beings, as our opponents say, how is it possible not to admit, that we should also act justly towards brutes?” - Porphyry, On Abstinence from Animal Food - View Quote Details on “It is demonstrated that brutes are rational animals, reason in…
“Refrain at all times such foods as cannot be procured without violence and oppression. For know that all the inferior Creatures, when hurt, do cry and send forth their complaints to their Maker.” - Thomas Tryon, The Way to Health, Long Life, and Happiness, 1683 - View Quote Details on “Refrain at all times such foods as cannot be procured…
“The factory meat industry has polluted thousands of miles of America’s rivers, killed billions of fish, pushed tens of thousands of family farmers off their land, sickened and killed thousands of U.S. citizens, and treated millions of farm animals with unspeakable and unnecessary cruelty.” - Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Waterkeeper Alliance - View Quote Details on “The factory meat industry has polluted thousands of miles of…
“I beg all of the mankind who wants peace/ Try to have great compassion and stop killing!” - Mencius - View Quote Details on “I beg all of the mankind who wants peace/ Try…
“You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson - View Quote Details on “You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is…
“Chickens, pigs, and other animals … are interesting individuals with personalities and intelligence. … What people need to understand is that if they’re eating animals, they are promoting cruelty to animals.” – Pamela Anderson, in the PETA website - View Quote Details on “Chickens, pigs, and other animals … are interesting individuals with…
“Man alone consumes and engulfs more flesh than all other animals put together. He is, then, the greatest destroyer, and he is so more by abuse than by necessity. Instead of enjoying with moderation the resources offered him, in place of dispensing them with equity, in place of repairing in proportion as he destroys, of renewing in proportion as he annihilates, the rich man makes all his boast and glory in consuming, all his splendour in destroying, in one day, at his table, more matenal than would be necessary for the support of several families. He abuses equally other animals and his own species, the rest of whom live in famine, languish in misery, and work only to satisfy the immoderate appetite and the still more insatiable vanity of this human being who, destroying others by want, destroys himself by excess. - George Buffon,L’Histoire Naturelle - View Quote Details on “Man alone consumes and engulfs more flesh than all other…
“In the next ten years, one of the things you’re bound to hear is that animal protein … is one of the most toxic nutrients of all that can be considered.” – Dr. T. Colin Campbell - View Quote Details on “In the next ten years, one of the things you’re…