“I don’t understand why asking people to eat a well-balanced…

“I don’t understand why asking people to eat a well-balanced vegetarian diet is considered drastic, while it’s medically conservative to cut people open or put them on powerful cholesterol-lowering drugs for the rest of their lives.” – Dean Ornish, MD, head of the Preventative Medicine Research Institute in California

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“Jesus’ message is about love and compassion, but there is nothing loving or compassionate at factory farms and slaughterhouses, where billions of animals endure miserable lives and die violent deaths. Jesus mandates kindness and mercy for all God’s creatures. He’d be appalled by the suffering that we inflict on animals today to indulge our acquired taste for their flesh.” - Bruce Friedrich, Is Eating Meat A Catholic Sin? - View Quote Details on “Jesus’ message is about love and compassion, but there is…
“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.” ~…
“The peoples living upon vegetable foods, are, of all men, the handsomest, the most vigorous, the least exposed to diseases and to passions, and they whose lives last longest” – Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Etudes - View Quote Details on “The peoples living upon vegetable foods, are, of all men,…
“Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, nothing so surely unmortars a society; nothing, we might plausibly argue, will so harden and degrade the minds of those that practice it. And yet we ourselves make much the same appearance in the eyes of the Buddhist and the vegetarian. We consume the carcasses of creatures of like appetites, passions, and organs with ourselves; we feed on babes, though not our own; and the slaughter-house resounds daily with screams of pain and fear. We distinguish, indeed; but the unwillingness of many nations to eat the dog, an animal with whom we live on terms of the next intimacy, shows how precariously the distinction is grounded.” - Robert Louis Stevenson, In the South Seas, Chapter XI - View Quote Details on “Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, nothing so…
“Give up animal foods for two months, or even for a week, and I promise you will look and feel better, and you’ll want to do it forever! ” - Alicia Silverstone, Animal Times, Spring, 2008, p 3 - View Quote Details on “Give up animal foods for two months, or even for…
“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…
“I’m sure glad I had my bacon for breakfast.” - George W. Bush - View Quote Details on “I’m sure glad I had my bacon for breakfast.” -…
“No chemical carcinogen is nearly so important in causing human cancer as animal protein.” – Dr. T. Colin Campbell - View Quote Details on “No chemical carcinogen is nearly so important in causing human…
“In fact, my best year of track competition was the first year I ate a vegan diet. Moreover, by continuing to eat a vegan diet, my weight is under control, I like the way I look. (…)I regained my energy. I was drinking 24 to 32 ounces of juice a day. I ate no dairy products. And I had my best year as an athlete ever! (…) I know that many people think that eating a vegetarian diet - and especially a vegan diet – will require sacrifice and denial. Jannequin Bennett demonstrates in this book that eating vegan does not have to be tasteless and boring.” – Carl Lewis, Excerpt from Carl Lewis’ introduction to Very Vegetarian, by Jannequin Bennett - View Quote Details on “In fact, my best year of track competition was the…
“Humankind does not show the mixed structural features one expects and finds in anatomical omnivores such as bears and raccoons. Thus, from comparing the gastrointestinal tract of humans to that of carnivores, herbivores and omnivores we must conclude that humankind’s GI tract is designed for a purely plant-food diet.” - Milton R. Mills, M.D., The Comparative Anatomy of Eating - View Quote Details on “Humankind does not show the mixed structural features one expects…