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“I’m opposed to fur and any kind of use of animal products. I don’t eat them, and I don’t wear them. I’m not for the killing of any creature, whether it be seals, cows, dogs or any animal. So anytime it comes to any kind of animal cruelty, I’m totally against it.” – Bryan Adams, PETA interview, 2007 - View Quote Details on “I’m opposed to fur and any kind of use of…
” The destruction of animals for food, in its details and tendencies, involves so much cruelty as to cause every reflecting individual – not destitude of the ordinary sensibilities of nature – to shudder.” – William A. Alcott, Vegtable Diet, 1848 - View Quote Details on ” The destruction of animals for food, in its details…
“Man could live on vegetables alone. However the whole of nature is not enough to satisfy his intemperance and the inconsistent variety of his appetite. Man by himself consumes and devours more meat than all the other animals together and not out of necessity but as a form of abuse. ” – Count Buffon - View Quote Details on “Man could live on vegetables alone. However the whole of…
An eminent Hindu quoted by Ralph Waldo Trine (1866-1958) in Every Living Creature, p. 32 - View Quote Details on An eminent Hindu quoted by Ralph Waldo Trine (1866-1958) in…
“Would the delicate ladies who devour sanguinary beef-steaks like to see their sons working as slaughtermen? If not, then they have no right to put this task upon some other woman’s son. – C.W. Leadbeater, Vegetarianism and Occultism, 1913, p. 28 - View Quote Details on “Would the delicate ladies who devour sanguinary beef-steaks like to…
“I presume that very few men and very few women would be willing to go and catch hold either sheep or of oxen and themselves slaughter the creatures in order that they may eat. […] Now, I venture to submit that if people want to eat meat, they should kill the animals for themselves, that they have no right to degrade other people by work of that sort. Nor should they say that if they did not do it the slaughter would still go on. […] Every person who eats meat takes a share in that degradation of his fellow-men; on him and on her personally lies the share, and personally lies the responsibility”. - Annie Besant, Vegetarianism in the Light of Theosophy, 1913, P. 18-20 - View Quote Details on “I presume that very few men and very few women…
“To become vegetarian is to step into the stream which leads to nirvana.” - Buddha. - View Quote Details on “To become vegetarian is to step into the stream which…
“We manage to swallow flesh, only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing we do.” - Rabinadranath Tagore, Glimpses of Bengal Letters, 1894 - View Quote Details on “We manage to swallow flesh, only because we do not…
“It is the position of the American Dietetic Association and Dietitians of Canada that appropriately planned vegetarian diets are healthful, nutritionally adequate and provide health benefits in the prevention and treatment of certain diseases. ” - American Dietetic Association, (from their website www.eatright.org) - View Quote Details on “It is the position of the American Dietetic Association and…
“Give up animal foods for two months, or even for a week, and I promise you will look and feel better, and you’ll want to do it forever! ” - Alicia Silverstone, Animal Times, Spring, 2008, p 3 - View Quote Details on “Give up animal foods for two months, or even for…