“I was in a sushi bar and it dawned on…

“I was in a sushi bar and it dawned on me – how could I discriminate between a cow and a fish?” - Carré Otis, Animal Times, Summer, 2007, p. 4

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“Life remains immoral or only falsely moral, if there is cruelty and killing for the satisfaction of our daily needs.” - Swami Avyaktananda - View Quote Details on “Life remains immoral or only falsely moral, if there is…
“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…
” 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…
“Man alone consumes and engulfs more flesh than all other animals put together. He is, then, the greatest destroyer, and he is so more by abuse than by necessity. Instead of enjoying with moderation the resources offered him, in place of dispensing them with equity, in place of repairing in proportion as he destroys, of renewing in proportion as he annihilates, the rich man makes all his boast and glory in consuming, all his splendour in destroying, in one day, at his table, more matenal than would be necessary for the support of several families. He abuses equally other animals and his own species, the rest of whom live in famine, languish in misery, and work only to satisfy the immoderate appetite and the still more insatiable vanity of this human being who, destroying others by want, destroys himself by excess. - George Buffon,L’Histoire Naturelle - View Quote Details on “Man alone consumes and engulfs more flesh than all other…
“As I cannot kill, I cannot authorize others to kill. Do you see? If you are buying from a butcher you are authorizing him to kill – to kill helpless, dumb creatures which neither you nor I could kill ourselves.” - Paul Troubetzkoy, quoted in ”Vegetarian Food for Thought - View Quote Details on “As I cannot kill, I cannot authorize others to kill…
“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…
“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 - View Quote Details on “I hope that al those who eat animals and yet…
” In all the round world of Utopia there is no meat. There used to be. But now we cannot stand the thought of slaughter-houses. And, in a population that is all educated, and at about the same level of physical refinement, it is practically impossible to find anyone who will hew a dead ox or pig. We never settled the hygienic question of meat-eating at all. This other aspect decided us. I can still remember, as a boy, the rejoicings over the closing of the last slaughter-house.” - H.G. Wells, On A Modern Utopia Chapter the Ninth, The Samurai, Section 5 - View Quote Details on ” In all the round world of Utopia there is…
“Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.” - Albert Schweitzer (The Philosophy of Civilisation) - View Quote Details on “Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all…
“Political economists tell us that the produce of an acre of land in wheat, corn, potatoes, and other vegetables, and in fruits, will sustain animal life sixteen times as long as when the produce of the same acre is converted into flesh, by feeding and fattening animals upon it.” – William A. Alcott, Vegetable Diet, New York: Fowlers & Wells, 1848, pp. 263-265 - View Quote Details on “Political economists tell us that the produce of an acre…