“I hope that al those who eat animals and yet…

“I hope that al those who eat animals and yet consider themselves to be living religious lives will read [Diet for Transcendence], and that it will lead them to see that the exploitation of animals is incompatible with any religion which professes compassion.” - Peter Singer

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“The natural food of man, to judge from his structure, appears to consit principally of the fruits, roots, and other succulent parts of vegetables.” – Georges Cuvier, Le Régne Animal - View Quote Details on “The natural food of man, to judge from his structure,…
“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…
“If he be really and seriously seeking to live a good life, the first thing from which he will abstain will always be the use of animal food, because…its use is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an act which is contrary to the moral feeling-killing.” - Leo Tolstoy - View Quote Details on “If he be really and seriously seeking to live a…
“I’m on a vegan diet, I do yoga every day, I work out, I’m totally spiritual…” -Avril Lavigne - View Quote Details on “I’m on a vegan diet, I do yoga every day,…
” We cannot pretend that we do not know this. We are not ostriches, and cannot believe that if we refuse to look at what we do not wish to see, it will not exist. This is especially the case when what we do not wish to see is what we wish to eat. If it were really indispensable, or, if not indispensable, at least in some way useful! But it is quite unnecessary, and only serves to develop animal feelings, to excite desire, and to promote fornication and drunkenness. And this is continually being confirmed by the fact that young, kind, undepraved people—especially women and girls—without knowing how it logically follows, feel that virtue is incompatible with beefsteaks, and, as soon as they wish to be good, give up eating flesh.” - Leo Tolstoy, Essays and Letters, The First Step - View Quote Details on ” We cannot pretend that we do not know this…
“The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites or women for men.” - Alice Walker. - View Quote Details on “The animals of the world exist for their own reasons…
Peter Singer, The Ethics of What We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter - View Quote Details on Peter Singer, The Ethics of What We Eat: Why Our…
“We must recognize that it is ecological suicide for us to endeavour to maintain a meat based agriculture and a primary carnivorous diet.” - Michael W. Fox, Inhumane Society, 1990 - View Quote Details on “We must recognize that it is ecological suicide for us…
“I think and speak clearer since I cut the dairy out. I can breathe better and perform at a better rate, and my voice is clearer. I can explore different things with my voice that I couldn’t do because of my meat and dairy ingestion. I am proud and blessed to be a vegetarian. Everything became clear. - Common, interview for PETA - View Quote Details on “I think and speak clearer since I cut the dairy…
“As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: In their behavior toward creatures, all men were Nazis. The smugness with which man could do with other species as he pleased exemplified the most extreme racist theories, the principle that might is right.” - Isaac Bashevis Singer (On Enemies, A Love Story) - View Quote Details on “As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals…