“Certainly, if the entire world decided to become vegan tomorrow,…

“Certainly, if the entire world decided to become vegan tomorrow, a whole host of the world’s problems would disappear overnight. Climate change would decrease by 25 percent, deforestation would cease, rainforests would be preserved, our water- and air-quality would increase, life-expectancy rates would increase, and our rates of cancer would plummet, so certainly, with that one action of becoming vegan you are quite effectively making the world a better place.” - Moby, VegNews interview

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Isaac Bashevis Singer, in Judaism and Vegetarianism - View Quote Details on Isaac Bashevis Singer, in Judaism and Vegetarianism
” [O]ne of the objections frequently brought against vegetarianism is that it is a beautiful theory, but on the working of which is impracticable, since it is supposed that a man cannot live without devoring dead flesh. That objection is irrational, and is founded upon ignorance or preversion of facts. I am myself an example of its falsity; for I have lived without the pollution of flesh food-without meat, fish or fowl-for the last thirty-eight years, and I not only still survive, but have been during all the time in remarkably good health. Nor am I in any way peculiar in this, for I know some thousands of others who have done the same thing..” – C.W. Leadbeater, Vegetarianism and Occultism, 1913, p. 3 - View Quote Details on ” [O]ne of the objections frequently brought against vegetarianism is…
“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,…
” Simonson, in his rubber jacket and rubber overshoes fastened with a string over his worsted stockings (he was a vegetarian and would not wear the skin of slaughtered animals), was also in the courtyard waiting for the gang to start.” - Leo Tolstoy, Resurrection, Book III, chap I - View Quote Details on ” Simonson, in his rubber jacket and rubber overshoes fastened…
” [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…
“Further, it should be clear that meat in itself as protein is not much superior to eggs or nuts and could not alter the evolution of the brain; if this were so this miracle food would have continued to enlarge humans’ brain size in succeeding years when much greater amounts of meat were consumed ” – Colin Spencer, The Heretic’s Feast - View Quote Details on “Further, it should be clear that meat in itself as…
“He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man.” - Isaiah 66.3 - View Quote Details on “He that killeth an ox is as if he slew…
“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…
“People of the future will say, “meat-eaters!” in disgust and regard us in the same way that we regard cannibals and cannibalism.” - Dennis Weaver, quoted by Gail Davis in Vegetarian Food for Thought - View Quote Details on “People of the future will say, “meat-eaters!” in disgust and…
“The too obvious fact that a large portion of animals are carnivorous neither proves nor justifies the carnivorousness of the human species.” - Howard Williams (1837-1931), The Ethics of Diet - View Quote Details on “The too obvious fact that a large portion of animals…