“I can never accept inconsistency or injustice. Even if it…

“I can never accept inconsistency or injustice. Even if it comes from God. If there would come a voice from God saying, “I’m against vegetarianism!” I would say, “Well, I am for it!” This is how strongly I feel in this regard.” - Isaac Bashevis Singer, from the Preface to Food for the Spirit: Vegetarianism and the World Religions

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“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…
“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…
You never hear anybody talk about mad tofu disease. - View Quote Details on You never hear anybody talk about mad tofu disease.
“It is demonstrated that brutes are rational animals, reason in most of them being indeed imperfect, of which, nevertheless, they are not entirely deprived. Since, however, justice pertains to rational beings, as our opponents say, how is it possible not to admit, that we should also act justly towards brutes?” - Porphyry, On Abstinence from Animal Food - View Quote Details on “It is demonstrated that brutes are rational animals, reason in…
” In all the round world of Utopia there is no meat. There used to be. But now we cannot stand the thought of slaughter-houses. And, in a population that is all educated, and at about the same level of physical refinement, it is practically impossible to find anyone who will hew a dead ox or pig. We never settled the hygienic question of meat-eating at all. This other aspect decided us. I can still remember, as a boy, the rejoicings over the closing of the last slaughter-house.” - H.G. Wells, On A Modern Utopia Chapter the Ninth, The Samurai, Section 5 - View Quote Details on ” In all the round world of Utopia there is…
“A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral.” - Henry David Thoreau, On Civil Disobedience - View Quote Details on “A man can live and be healthy without killing animals…
” 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…
“On both sides of the road, the forest has been cleared as far as the eye can see. For the most part, it has been cleared for cattle ranching. Today, there are over 8 million cattle in Brazilian Amazonia. Meat production is extremely inefficient (50 kg/hectare/year), making ranching an activity which is so wholly uneconomic that it would probably never have been undertaken on the present scale in the Brazilian Government, with aid from the World Bank and other multilateral development banks, had not poured $2 billion into subsidizing the cattle industry in Amazonia.” - N. Hildyard, Adios Amazonia? - View Quote Details on “On both sides of the road, the forest has been…
“Those who believe that the slaughtering of animal for food and goods are flawed in their thinking. That is, the belief that the natural order, the order that animals eat animals, is immoral in anyway is a justification of the lifestyle and opinions of another.” - Jared Miller, research on human nature. - View Quote Details on “Those who believe that the slaughtering of animal for food…
“Were one to stop and think of what meat is, and what it was, it is doubtful if one could eat it. It is merely dead and decaying flesh - flesh from the body of an animal. […] Only by the fact that hey are covered up, and their true nature concealed by cooking, and basting, and pickling, and peppering and salting can we eat them at all. If we were natural carnivorous animals, we should delight in bloodshed and gore of all kind! […] We should eat our flesh warm and quivering - just as it comes from the cow!” - Hereward Carrington, The Natural Food for Man, p. 160-161 - View Quote Details on “Were one to stop and think of what meat is,…