“Further, it should be clear that meat in itself as…

“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

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“Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.” - Albert Einstein - View Quote Details on “Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival…
” 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…
” I became a vegetarian because I was persuaded that life is as valid for other creatures as it is for humans. I do not need dead animal bodies to keep me alive, strong and healthy. Therefore, I will not kill for food.” – Scott Nearing, On The Making of a Radical - View Quote Details on ” I became a vegetarian because I was persuaded that…
“You can’t tear flesh by hand, you can’t tear hide by hand. Our anterior teeth are not suited for tearing flesh or hide. We don’t have large canine teeth, and we wouldn’t have been able to deal with food sources that require those large canines” – Dr. Richard Leakey - View Quote Details on “You can’t tear flesh by hand, you can’t tear hide…
“Animal life, sombre mystery. All nature protests against the barbarity of man, who misapprehends, who humiliates, who tortures his inferior brethren.” - Jules Michelet - View Quote Details on “Animal life, sombre mystery. All nature protests against the barbarity…
” 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…
“As long as Man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love.” - Pythagoras - View Quote Details on “As long as Man continues to be the ruthless destroyer…
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…
“After looking carefully into the matter, and after some years’ experience in its non-use, I can state without hesitancy that, contrary to the prevailing opinion, the flesh of animals is not necessary as an article of food. […] We shall find numerous articles of food, as we study the matter, that, so far as body nourishing, building, and sustaining qualities are concerned, contain twice, and in some cases over twice, as much as any flesh food that can be mentioned.” - Ralph Waldo Trine (1866-1958), Every Living Creature, p. 25-26 - View Quote Details on “After looking carefully into the matter, and after some years’…
“There is in man a disposition to compassion as generally diffused as his other instincts. Newton had cultivated this sentiment of humanity, and he extended it to the lower animals. With Locke he was strongly convinced that God has given to them a proportion of ideas, and the same feelings, which he has to us… In truth, without humanity, a virtue which comprehends all virtues, the name of philosopher is little deserved.” - Voltaire, Elémens de la Philosophie de Newton - View Quote Details on “There is in man a disposition to compassion as generally…