“I do not mean here absolute want of food, but…

“I do not mean here absolute want of food, but want of healthful nutriment. How to provide good and plentiful food is, therefore, a most important question of the day. On the general principles the raising of cattle as a means of providing food is objectionable, because, in the sense interpreted above, it must undoubtedly tend to the addition of mass of a “smaller velocity.” – Nikola Tesla, The Problem of Increasing Human Energy, Century Illustrated Magazine, June 1900

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“The most extraordinary workers I ever saw, the labourers in the mines of Chili, Live exclusively on vegetable food, including manny seeds of leguminous plants.” – Charles Darwin, quoted by C.W. Leadbeater in Vegetarianism and Occultism, 1913, p. 20 - View Quote Details on “The most extraordinary workers I ever saw, the labourers in…
“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…
“Meat is for beasts to feed on.” - Ovid - View Quote Details on “Meat is for beasts to feed on.” - Ovid
” It is not a digression to mention the horrors of war in connection with the massacre of cattle and carnivorous banquets. The diet of individuals corresponds closely to their manners. Blood demands blood. On this point anyone who searches among his recollections of the people whom he has known will find there can be no possible doubt as to the contrast which exists between vegetarians and coarse eaters of flesh, greedy drinkers of blood, in amenity of manner, gentleness of disposition and regularity of life.” - Elisée Reclus, On Vegetarianism - View Quote Details on ” It is not a digression to mention the horrors…
“I like animals, all animals. I wouldn’t hurt a cat or a dog—or a chicken or a cow. And I wouldn’t ask someone else to hurt them for me. That’s why I’m a vegetarian.” - Peter Dinklage, in a PETA vegetarian-testimonial - View Quote Details on “I like animals, all animals. I wouldn’t hurt a cat…
” My mother was convinced, and on this head I have retained her firm belief, that to kill animals for the purpose of feeding on their flesh is one of the most deplorable and shameful infirmities of the human state; that it is one of those curses cast upon man either by his fall, or by the obduracy of his own perversity.” - Alphonse de Lamartine, On Les confidences - View Quote Details on ” My mother was convinced, and on this head I…
“We manage to swallow flesh, only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing we do.” - Rabinadranath Tagore, Glimpses of Bengal Letters, 1894 - View Quote Details on “We manage to swallow flesh, only because we do not…
Hereward Carrington, The Natural Food for Man, p. 159-160 - View Quote Details on Hereward Carrington, The Natural Food for Man, p. 159-160
“I have never seasoned a truth with the sauce of a lie in order to digest it more easily.” - Marguerite Yourcenar - View Quote Details on “I have never seasoned a truth with the sauce of…
“There can be no purity whilst the flesh of creatures is partaken of and inhumanity toward animals is practiced.” - Ruth Harrison, Animal Machines - View Quote Details on “There can be no purity whilst the flesh of creatures…