“If God did not intend for us to eat animals,…

“If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?” - John Cleese (vegetarian)

Anti-vegetarian quotes

Other Vegetarianism Quotes

Jack LaLanne, Interview by Dennis Hughes, Share Guide - View Quote Details on Jack LaLanne, Interview by Dennis Hughes, Share Guide
“Man lives very well upon flesh, you say, but, if he thinks this food to be natural to him, why does he not use it as it is, as furnished to him by Nature? But, in fact, be shrinks in horror from seizing and rending living or even raw flesh with his teeth, and lights a fire to change its natural and proper condition… What is clearer than that man is not furnished for hunting, much less for eating, other animals? In one word, we seem to be admirably admonished by Cicero that man was destined for other things than for seizing and cutting the throats of other animals. If you answer, “that may be said to be an industry ordered by Nature, by which such weapons are invented,” then, behold, it is by the very same artificial instrument that men make weapons for mutual slaughter. Do they this at the instigation of Nature? Can a use so noxious be called natural? Faculty is given by Nature, but it is our own fault that we make a perverse use of it.” – Pierre Gassendi, Letter to Van Helmont - View Quote Details on “Man lives very well upon flesh, you say, but, if…
“A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral.” - Henry David Thoreau, On Civil Disobedience - View Quote Details on “A man can live and be healthy without killing animals…
“I drink soy milk, and that’s the right thing. ” - Howard Stern, Animal Times, Spring, 2008, p. 17 - View Quote Details on “I drink soy milk, and that’s the right thing. “…
“Fruits, nuts, cereal, and vegetation were the basis of the human diet over the millennia. Our modern diet is really an anathema to our whole historical evolution.” – Oliver Alabaster, MD - View Quote Details on “Fruits, nuts, cereal, and vegetation were the basis of the…
“Once people spend time with farm animals in a loving way… a pig or cow or a little chicken or a turkey, they might find they relate with them the same way they relate with dogs and cats. People don’t really think of them that way because they’re on the plate. Why should they be food when other animals are pets? I would never eat my doggies.” - Alicia Silverstone - View Quote Details on “Once people spend time with farm animals in a loving…
“You don’t have to give antibiotics to broccoli.” - Michael Klamper, MD - View Quote Details on “You don’t have to give antibiotics to broccoli.” - Michael…
“There is not a single argument nor a single fact that can be offered in favour of flesh eating that cannot be offered, with equal strength, in favour of cannibalism.” - Herbert Shelton, Superior Nutrition - View Quote Details on “There is not a single argument nor a single fact…
“Even if man were created a carnivorous animal, is there no way for him to outgrow it as he becomes more intelligent?” - Ha’nish Otoman Zar-Adusht Ha’nish, Mazdaznan Dietetics and Cookery Book, 1913, p. 197 - View Quote Details on “Even if man were created a carnivorous animal, is there…
“Vegetarianism is necessary to the very rich and the very poor. The poor need it because it is cheap and nourishing, the rich to cleanse all the poisons from the corpses that have accumulated in their overfed organism.” – Natalia Borissowna Nordman, Povarennaia kneiga dlia golodaiushchikh - View Quote Details on “Vegetarianism is necessary to the very rich and the very…