“I think there’s something odd about eating another living anything.”…

“I think there’s something odd about eating another living anything.” – Shania Twain

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“Yet many Americans who have reluctantly given up their gas-guzzling cars would never think of questioning the resource costs of their grain-fed-meat diet. So let me try to give you some sense of the enormity of the resources flowing into livestock production in the United States. The consequences of a grain-fed-meat diet may be as severe as those of a nation of Cadillac drivers.” – Frances Moore Lappé, Diet for a Small Planet - View Quote Details on “Yet many Americans who have reluctantly given up their gas-guzzling…
“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 ) - View Quote Details on “I have no doubt that it is a part of…
“The time will come in the world’s history, and a movement is setting in that direction even now, when it will be deemed as strange a thing to find a man or a woman who eats flesh as food, as it is now to find a man or woman who refrains from eating it.” - Ralph Waldo Trine (1866-1958), Every Living Creature, p. 34 - View Quote Details on “The time will come in the world’s history, and a…
“Further, it should be clear that meat in itself as protein is not much superior to eggs or nuts and could not alter the evolution of the brain; if this were so this miracle food would have continued to enlarge humans’ brain size in succeeding years when much greater amounts of meat were consumed ” – Colin Spencer, The Heretic’s Feast - View Quote Details on “Further, it should be clear that meat in itself as…
“The same quantity of ground has been proved to be capable of sustaining a larger and stronger population on a vegetable than on a meat diet.” -Thomas Ignatius Maria Forster, Philozoia, 1839, p. 43 - View Quote Details on “The same quantity of ground has been proved to be…
“I’ve been a vegan since I was about 3 years old and involved in animal rights for years. I’ve seen a number of animal rights films throghout the years, nona has affected me as profoundly as Earthlings. ” – Joaquin Phoenix, interview from the official Earthlings website - View Quote Details on “I’ve been a vegan since I was about 3 years…
“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…
” Simonson, in his rubber jacket and rubber overshoes fastened with a string over his worsted stockings (he was a vegetarian and would not wear the skin of slaughtered animals), was also in the courtyard waiting for the gang to start.” - Leo Tolstoy, Resurrection, Book III, chap I - View Quote Details on ” Simonson, in his rubber jacket and rubber overshoes fastened…
“Based on the fossil record one big spurt in hominid cranial capacity seems to have occurred with the appearance of Homo erectus approximately 1.75 million years ago, long before red meat could have been a regular part of hominid diets.” – Donna Hart and Robert W. Sussman, Man the Hunted, expanded edition, p. 256 - View Quote Details on “Based on the fossil record one big spurt in hominid…
“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…