“For the last month I have been a strict vegetarian…

“For the last month I have been a strict vegetarian. The moral effects of this regime are immense, owing to the voluntary subjugation of the flesh and the resulting absence of desires. You will appreciate how full I am of this idea when I tell you that I expect it to work the regeneration of mankind. I advise you to change over to a natural way of life, with proper nourishment (wholemeal bread), and you will soon feel the benefit.” – Gustav Mahler, on a 1880 letter

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“Comparative anatomy, therefore, proves that man is naturally a frugivorous animal, formed to subsist upon fruits, seeds, and farinaceous vegetables.” – Sylvester Graham, The Science of Human Life - View Quote Details on “Comparative anatomy, therefore, proves that man is naturally a frugivorous…
“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…
” Man came before the axe and fire so he couldn’t be carnivorous.The length of mans digestive tube is 5-8 meters and the distance between the mouth and the coccyx is 50 to 80 centimetres, which gives us a result of 10 as in other frugivorous animals and not 3 as in the carnivorous or 20 as in the herbivorous animals.The only animal with probable omnivorous morphology that exists, is the bear, which has some pointed teeth and others that are flat.” - Thomas Henry Huxley - View Quote Details on ” Man came before the axe and fire so he…
“It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living by its purely physical effect on the human temperament would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind.” - Albert Einstein, letter to Vegetarian Watch-Tower, December 27, 1930 - View Quote Details on “It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living…
“There is not a single argument nor a single fact that can be offered in favour of flesh eating that cannot be offered, with equal strength, in favour of cannibalism.” - Herbert Shelton, Superior Nutrition - View Quote Details on “There is not a single argument nor a single fact…
“Answer me, machinist, has nature arranged all the means of feeling in this animal, so that it may not feel? has it nerves in order to be impassible? Do not suppose this impertinent contradiction in nature.” - Voltaire - View Quote Details on “Answer me, machinist, has nature arranged all the means of…
“To produce 1 lb. of feedlot beef requires 7 lbs. of feed grain, which takes 7,000 lbs. of water to grow. Pass up one hamburger, and you’ll save as much water as you save by taking 40 showers with a low-flow nozzle. Yet in the U.S., 70% of all the wheat, corn and other grain produced goes to feeding herds of livestock. Around the world, as more water is diverted to raising pigs and chickens instead of producing crops for direct consumption, millions of wells are going dry. India, China, North Africa and the U.S. are all running freshwater deficits, pumping more from their aquifers than rain can replenish. As populations in water-scarce regions continue to expand, governments will inevitably act to cut these deficits by shifting water to grow food, not feed. The new policies will raise the price of meat to levels unaffordable for any but the rich. […]In the U.S., livestock now produce 130 times as much waste as people do. Just one hog farm in Utah, for example, produces more sewage than the city of Los Angeles. These megafarms are proliferating, and in populous areas their waste is tainting drinking water. In more pristine regions, from Indonesia to the Amazon, tropical rain forest is being burned down to make room for more and more cattle. Agriculture is the world’s biggest cause of deforestation, and increasing demand for meat is the biggest force in the expansion of agriculture.” - Ed Ayres, Time.com, Will We Still Eat Meat? - View Quote Details on “To produce 1 lb. of feedlot beef requires 7 lbs…
“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…
“I’m a postmodern vegetarian - I eat meat ironically.” ~ Bill Bailey (Part Troll) - View Quote Details on “I’m a postmodern vegetarian - I eat meat ironically.” ~…
“Yes; the stain rests upon the flesh-eaters, not upon the flesh providers!” - Hereward Carrington, The Natural Food for Man, p. 162 - View Quote Details on “Yes; the stain rests upon the flesh-eaters, not upon the…