“I was raised on flesh, more flesh, still flesh, always…

“I was raised on flesh, more flesh, still flesh, always flesh. When I started to use reason and organized my code of principles, I included vegetarianism in it; but it was too late to execute it.”– Machado de Assis, A Semana, 5 de Março de 1893

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“The time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men.” - Leonardo da Vinci (Quote invented by Dimitri Merejovski in a novel) - View Quote Details on “The time will come when men such as I will…
” Man came before the axe and fire so he couldn’t be carnivorous.The length of mans digestive tube is 5-8 meters and the distance between the mouth and the coccyx is 50 to 80 centimetres, which gives us a result of 10 as in other frugivorous animals and not 3 as in the carnivorous or 20 as in the herbivorous animals.The only animal with probable omnivorous morphology that exists, is the bear, which has some pointed teeth and others that are flat.” - Thomas Henry Huxley - View Quote Details on ” Man came before the axe and fire so he…
“I was watching an HBO special on eating habits and different cultures, and they showed in China how people eat cats, and I’m really fond of cats, and I happened to be sitting on the couch with my cat, and once I saw that, it just put everything in perspective. If I wouldn’t eat my cat what’s the difference between eating a cat or a cow? If certain animals are considered lesser than, so are certain people and that’s not really fair. And the root of that is to consider life on equal terms across the board.” - Ben Kenney, from a PETA video with The Roots - View Quote Details on “I was watching an HBO special on eating habits and…
“The only justification for killing animals is the fact that man can keep a knife or an axe in his hands and is shrewd enough and selfish enough to do slaughter for what he thinks is his own good. The Old Testament has many passages where the passion for meat is considered to be evil. According to the Bible, it was only a compromise with so-called human nature that God had allowed people to eat meat.” - Isaac Bashevis Singer, from the foreword to Vegetarianism, a Way of Life - View Quote Details on “The only justification for killing animals is the fact that…
“Auschwitz begins whenever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they’re only animals.” - Theodor Adorno - View Quote Details on “Auschwitz begins whenever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks:…
Isaac Bashevis Singer, in Judaism and Vegetarianism - View Quote Details on Isaac Bashevis Singer, in Judaism and Vegetarianism
“O wretched and unhappy Italy! Can you not see that gluttony murders every year more of your inhabitants than you could lose by the most cruel plague or by fire and sword in many battles?” - Luigi Cornaro, Discorsi della Vita Sobria - View Quote Details on “O wretched and unhappy Italy! Can you not see that…
“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…
“I beg all of the mankind who wants peace/ Try to have great compassion and stop killing!” - Mencius - View Quote Details on “I beg all of the mankind who wants peace/ Try…
“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…