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“I drink soy milk, and that’s the right thing. ” - Howard Stern, Animal Times, Spring, 2008, p. 17

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“Vegetarianism is necessary to the very rich and the very poor. The poor need it because it is cheap and nourishing, the rich to cleanse all the poisons from the corpses that have accumulated in their overfed organism.” – Natalia Borissowna Nordman, Povarennaia kneiga dlia golodaiushchikh - View Quote Details on “Vegetarianism is necessary to the very rich and the very…
“Cruelty is cruelty, whether it’s cruelty to children, to the elderly, to dogs and cats, or to chickens.” - Russell Simmons - View Quote Details on “Cruelty is cruelty, whether it’s cruelty to children, to the…
“The too obvious fact that a large portion of animals are carnivorous neither proves nor justifies the carnivorousness of the human species.” - Howard Williams (1837-1931), The Ethics of Diet - View Quote Details on “The too obvious fact that a large portion of animals…
“How can one, who eats the flesh of others to swell his flesh, show compassion?” - Tiruvalluvar, Tirukkural: 251 - View Quote Details on “How can one, who eats the flesh of others to…
“I, for my part, wonder of what sort of feeling, mind or reason that man was possessed who was first to pollute his mouth with gore, and allow his lips to touch the flesh of a murdered being; who spread his table with the mangled forms of dead bodies, and claimed as daily food and dainty dishes what but now were beings endowed with movement, with perception and with voice. For the sake of some little mouthful of flesh we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that portion of life and time it had been born into the world to enjoy.” - Plutarch, Moralia. - View Quote Details on “I, for my part, wonder of what sort of feeling,…
“Just as, in our days, exposure of children, combats of gladiators, torture of prisioners, and other atrocities are held to be scandalous and shameful, while in earlier times they were thought quite justifiable and right, so in the future will be the murder of animals, to feed upon their corpses, be pronounced to be immoral and indefensible.” – Wilhelm Zimmermann(1819-1885), The Way to Paradise - View Quote Details on “Just as, in our days, exposure of children, combats of…
“I completely stopped eating dead creatures in 1989. ” - Bryan Adams, www.animal-lib.org - View Quote Details on “I completely stopped eating dead creatures in 1989. ” -…
” Grant animals a ray of reason, imagine what a frightful nightmare the world is to them: a dream of cold-blooded men, blind and deaf, cutting their throats, slitting them open, gutting them, cutting them into pieces, cooking them alive, sometimes laughing at them and their contortions as they writhe in agony. Is there anything more atrocious among the cannibals of Africa? To a man whose mind is free there is something even more intolerable in the sufferings of animals than in the sufferings of men. For with the latter it is at least admitted that suffering is evil and that the man who causes it is a criminal. But thousands of animals are uselessly butchered every day without a shadow of remorse. If any man were to refer to it, he would be thought ridiculous.—And that is the unpardonable crime. ” - Romain Rolland, On Jean-Christophe - View Quote Details on ” Grant animals a ray of reason, imagine what a…
“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,…
“Yes, I am a vegetarian. I find the thought of stuffing fragments of corpses down my throat quite repulsive, and I am amazed that so many people do it every day. ” - J. M. Coetzee - View Quote Details on “Yes, I am a vegetarian. I find the thought of…