“Every time we sit down to eat, we make a…

“Every time we sit down to eat, we make a choice. Please choose vegetarianism. Do it for … animals. Do it for the environment, and do it for your health.” - Alec Baldwin, in the PETA website, he worked with PETA.

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“Veganism has given me a higher level of awareness and spirituality.” - Dexter Scott King, Vegetarian Times, 1995 - View Quote Details on “Veganism has given me a higher level of awareness and…
“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,…
“They say that vegetable food is not sufficiently nutritious. But chemistry proves the contrary. So does physiology. So does experience. […] And again: the largest and strongest animals in the world are those which eat no flesh-food of any kind-the elephant and the rhinoceros.” - Dr. Russel Trall, Scientific Basis of Vegetarianism, p. 20 - View Quote Details on “They say that vegetable food is not sufficiently nutritious. But…
Rod Serling, The Twilight Zone (”To Serve Man “) - View Quote Details on Rod Serling, The Twilight Zone (”To Serve Man “)
” When the soil is given up to the feeding of cattle, upon which man is to feed, the given area of land would supply far less nutriment, so to speak, than would the same soil, if grains were raised upon it… ” - Hereward Carrington, The Natural Food for Man, p. 162 - View Quote Details on ” When the soil is given up to the feeding…
“Although most of us conduct our lives as omnivores, in that we eat flesh as well as vegetables and fruits, human beings have characteristics of herbivores, not carnivores. The appendages of carnivores are claws; those of herbivores are hands or hooves. The teeth of carnivores are sharp; those of herbivores are mainly flat (for grinding). The intestinal tract of carnivores is short (3 times body length); that of herbivores, long (12 times body length). Body cooling of carnivores is done by panting; herbivores, by sweating. Carnivores drink fluids by lapping; herbivores, by sipping. Carnivores produce their own vitamin C, whereas herbivores obtain it from their diet. Thus, humans have characteristics of herbivores, not carnivores.” - William C. Roberts, M.D.,, Twenty questions on atherosclerosis - View Quote Details on “Although most of us conduct our lives as omnivores, in…
Neal Barnard, M. D, Wramc Us Too, Inc Newsletter, 2003 - View Quote Details on Neal Barnard, M. D, Wramc Us Too, Inc Newsletter, 2003
“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…
“Until the age of twelve, then, I only lived on bread, milk-food, vegetables, and fruit. My health was not less robust on this account, nor my growth less rapid, and it was to this diet, perhaps, that I was indebted for that purity of feature, that exquisite sensibility of feeling, and that quiet gentleness of humor and character which I had preserved up to that period.” - Alphonse de Lamartine, On Les confidences - View Quote Details on “Until the age of twelve, then, I only lived on…
“When John Coltrane came to me, he looked different from his contemporaries: so clean, well-mannered and humble. About six months earlier he had apparently given up drugs and drink, become a vegetarian and taken to reading Ramakrishna’s book’s.” - Ravi Shankar, Raga Mala - View Quote Details on “When John Coltrane came to me, he looked different from…