“If you can justify killing to eat meat, you can…

“If you can justify killing to eat meat, you can justify the conditions of the ghetto. I cannot justify either one.” - Dick Gregory.

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“Man could live on vegetables alone. However the whole of nature is not enough to satisfy his intemperance and the inconsistent variety of his appetite. Man by himself consumes and devours more meat than all the other animals together and not out of necessity but as a form of abuse. ” – Count Buffon - View Quote Details on “Man could live on vegetables alone. However the whole of…
” God gave our first parents the food He designed that the race should eat. It was contrary to His plan to have the life of any creature taken. There was to be no death in Eden. The fruit of the trees in the garden was the food man’s wants required.” - Ellen G. White - View Quote Details on ” God gave our first parents the food He designed…
” With respect to animal diet, let it be considered, that taking away the lives of animals, in order to convert them into food, does great violence to the principles of benevolence and compassion. This appears from the frequent hard-heartedness and cruelty found amongst those persons, whose occupations engage them in destroying animal life, as well as from the uneasiness which others feel in beholding the butchery of animals.” - David Hartley, On Observations on Man, His Frame, His Duty, and His Expectations - View Quote Details on ” With respect to animal diet, let it be considered,…
Henry Stephens Salt, The Sending of the Animals - View Quote Details on Henry Stephens Salt, The Sending of the Animals
“Oh, come! That boot is on the other leg. Why should you call me to account for eating decently? If I battened on the scorched corpses of animals, you might well ask me why I did that.” - George Bernard Shaw, (The Vegetarian, 15 January 1898) - View Quote Details on “Oh, come! That boot is on the other leg. Why…
“To produce 1 lb. of feedlot beef requires 7 lbs. of feed grain, which takes 7,000 lbs. of water to grow. Pass up one hamburger, and you’ll save as much water as you save by taking 40 showers with a low-flow nozzle. Yet in the U.S., 70% of all the wheat, corn and other grain produced goes to feeding herds of livestock. Around the world, as more water is diverted to raising pigs and chickens instead of producing crops for direct consumption, millions of wells are going dry. India, China, North Africa and the U.S. are all running freshwater deficits, pumping more from their aquifers than rain can replenish. As populations in water-scarce regions continue to expand, governments will inevitably act to cut these deficits by shifting water to grow food, not feed. The new policies will raise the price of meat to levels unaffordable for any but the rich. […]In the U.S., livestock now produce 130 times as much waste as people do. Just one hog farm in Utah, for example, produces more sewage than the city of Los Angeles. These megafarms are proliferating, and in populous areas their waste is tainting drinking water. In more pristine regions, from Indonesia to the Amazon, tropical rain forest is being burned down to make room for more and more cattle. Agriculture is the world’s biggest cause of deforestation, and increasing demand for meat is the biggest force in the expansion of agriculture.” - Ed Ayres, Time.com, Will We Still Eat Meat? - View Quote Details on “To produce 1 lb. of feedlot beef requires 7 lbs…
“As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: In their behavior toward creatures, all men were Nazis. The smugness with which man could do with other species as he pleased exemplified the most extreme racist theories, the principle that might is right.” - Isaac Bashevis Singer (On Enemies, A Love Story) - View Quote Details on “As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals…
“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…
“Cruelty stares at me from the butcher’s face. I tread amidst carcasses. I am in the presence of the slain. The death-set eyes of beasts peer at me and accuse me of belonging to the race of murderers. ” – Amos Bronson Alcott, The Journals of Bronson Alcott - View Quote Details on “Cruelty stares at me from the butcher’s face. I tread…
“I am a vegan now, and it was a conscious decision. I studied a lot about African culture and health and the best way to take care of the body. … I really wanted to be healthy. I found out a lot about the body and what drugs they put in meat. My taste buds started changing, and I didn’t crave meat and dairy products anymore” – Brandy - View Quote Details on “I am a vegan now, and it was a conscious…