“I have no doubt that it is a part of…

“I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilized.” - Henry David Thoreau (On Walden )

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“Some people seem to think that if the animals were not eaten they would multiply so rapidly as to overrun the earth. Is it not true that the more beef there is consumed the more there is raised? These people do not understand that there are men in the business who have made an effort to increase their stock by forced means.” - Ha’nish Otoman Zar-Adusht Ha’nish, Mazdaznan Dietetics and Cookery Book, 1913, p. 197 - View Quote Details on “Some people seem to think that if the animals were…
“Behold the Venus flytrap, the complete answer to the philosophy of vegetarianism” - Tom Edwards - View Quote Details on “Behold the Venus flytrap, the complete answer to the philosophy…
“Comparative anatomy, therefore, proves that man is naturally a frugivorous animal, formed to subsist upon fruits, seeds, and farinaceous vegetables.” – Sylvester Graham, The Science of Human Life - View Quote Details on “Comparative anatomy, therefore, proves that man is naturally a frugivorous…
“I presume that very few men and very few women would be willing to go and catch hold either sheep or of oxen and themselves slaughter the creatures in order that they may eat. […] Now, I venture to submit that if people want to eat meat, they should kill the animals for themselves, that they have no right to degrade other people by work of that sort. Nor should they say that if they did not do it the slaughter would still go on. […] Every person who eats meat takes a share in that degradation of his fellow-men; on him and on her personally lies the share, and personally lies the responsibility”. - Annie Besant, Vegetarianism in the Light of Theosophy, 1913, P. 18-20 - View Quote Details on “I presume that very few men and very few women…
“This species of food [fruits and farinacea] is that which is most suited to man…” – Carl Linnaeus, Amaenitates academica, x., 8 - View Quote Details on “This species of food [fruits and farinacea] is that which…
Neal Barnard, M. D, Wramc Us Too, Inc Newsletter, 2003 - View Quote Details on Neal Barnard, M. D, Wramc Us Too, Inc Newsletter, 2003
“Poor little innocent creatures, if you were reasoning beings and could speak, how you would curse us! For we are the cause of your death, and what have you done to deserve it?” – Saint Richard of Wyche, quoted by Dr. Holly Roberts in Vegetarian Christian Saints, p. 191 - View Quote Details on “Poor little innocent creatures, if you were reasoning beings and…
“People sometimes forget that there are vegetables and vegetables. There are vegetables that have not so much nutriment in them; but there are others – all the farinaceous foods such as wheat and barley – which contain a greater amount of nutriment than beef or any other animal meat.” – Professor Francis William Newman (1805-1897), President of the Vegetarian Society, quoted in the International Vegetarian Union website - View Quote Details on “People sometimes forget that there are vegetables and vegetables. There…
“Were the belief one day to become general that man could dispense with animal food, there would ensue not only a great economic revolution–for a bullock, to produce one pound of meat, consumes more than a hundred of provender–but a moral improvement as well, not less important and certainly more sincere and more lasting than might follow a second appearance on the earth of the Envoy of the Father, come to remedy the errors and omissions of his former pilgrimage.” – Maurice Maeterlick, The Buried Temple, III The kingdom of Matter, 5 - View Quote Details on “Were the belief one day to become general that man…
“Today it is generally accepted that although the earliest humans probably ate some meat, it was unlikely to have played a major role in their diet. Plants would have been a much more important source of food.” – Dr. Jane Goodall, Harvest for Hope - View Quote Details on “Today it is generally accepted that although the earliest humans…