“I was watching an HBO special on eating habits and…

“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

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” My mother was convinced, and on this head I have retained her firm belief, that to kill animals for the purpose of feeding on their flesh is one of the most deplorable and shameful infirmities of the human state; that it is one of those curses cast upon man either by his fall, or by the obduracy of his own perversity.” - Alphonse de Lamartine, On Les confidences - View Quote Details on ” My mother was convinced, and on this head I…
“Every time we sit down to eat, we make a choice. Please choose vegetarianism. Do it for … animals. Do it for the environment, and do it for your health.” - Alec Baldwin, in the PETA website, he worked with PETA. - View Quote Details on “Every time we sit down to eat, we make a…
“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…
“After looking carefully into the matter, and after some years’ experience in its non-use, I can state without hesitancy that, contrary to the prevailing opinion, the flesh of animals is not necessary as an article of food. […] We shall find numerous articles of food, as we study the matter, that, so far as body nourishing, building, and sustaining qualities are concerned, contain twice, and in some cases over twice, as much as any flesh food that can be mentioned.” - Ralph Waldo Trine (1866-1958), Every Living Creature, p. 25-26 - View Quote Details on “After looking carefully into the matter, and after some years’…
“The table was well spread with all manner of fruit, beans, greenstuff and good pies…but of flesh and fish there was never a sign.” – Shmuel Yosef Agnon, The Bridal Canopy - View Quote Details on “The table was well spread with all manner of fruit,…
Neal Barnard, M. D, Wramc Us Too, Inc Newsletter, 2003 - View Quote Details on Neal Barnard, M. D, Wramc Us Too, Inc Newsletter, 2003
“For every 16 pounds of grain and soy fed to beef cattle in the United States we only get 1 pound back in meat on our plates. The other 15 pounds are inaccessible to us, either used by the animal to produce energy or to make some part of its own body that we do not eat (like hair or bones) or excreted.” – Frances Moore Lappé, Diet for a Small Planet - View Quote Details on “For every 16 pounds of grain and soy fed to…
” All wholesome food is caught without a net or a trap. ” – William Blake, on The Marriage of Heaven and Hell - View Quote Details on ” All wholesome food is caught without a net or…
“(Of the mouth of man which is a tomb) there shall come forth loud noises out of the tombs of those who have died by an evil and violent death.” - Leonardo da Vinci, (Prophecies). - View Quote Details on “(Of the mouth of man which is a tomb) there…
“Humankind does not show the mixed structural features one expects and finds in anatomical omnivores such as bears and raccoons. Thus, from comparing the gastrointestinal tract of humans to that of carnivores, herbivores and omnivores we must conclude that humankind’s GI tract is designed for a purely plant-food diet.” - Milton R. Mills, M.D., The Comparative Anatomy of Eating - View Quote Details on “Humankind does not show the mixed structural features one expects…