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“For the last month I have been a strict vegetarian. The moral effects of this regime are immense, owing to the voluntary subjugation of the flesh and the resulting absence of desires. You will appreciate how full I am of this idea when I tell you that I expect it to work the regeneration of mankind. I advise you to change over to a natural way of life, with proper nourishment (wholemeal bread), and you will soon feel the benefit.” – Gustav Mahler, on a 1880 letter - View Quote Details on “For the last month I have been a strict vegetarian…
” 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…
“I’m opposed to fur and any kind of use of animal products. I don’t eat them, and I don’t wear them. I’m not for the killing of any creature, whether it be seals, cows, dogs or any animal. So anytime it comes to any kind of animal cruelty, I’m totally against it.” – Bryan Adams, PETA interview, 2007 - View Quote Details on “I’m opposed to fur and any kind of use of…
” I have often thought, if it was not for this tyranny which custom usurps over us, that men of any tolerable good-nature could never be reconcil’d to the killing of so many animals for their daily food. - Bernard Mandeville, On The Fable of the Bees - View Quote Details on ” I have often thought, if it was not for…
Peter Singer, The Ethics of What We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter - View Quote Details on Peter Singer, The Ethics of What We Eat: Why Our…
“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…
“We manage to swallow flesh, only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing we do.” - Rabinadranath Tagore, Glimpses of Bengal Letters, 1894 - View Quote Details on “We manage to swallow flesh, only because we do not…
“In fact, my best year of track competition was the first year I ate a vegan diet. Moreover, by continuing to eat a vegan diet, my weight is under control, I like the way I look. (…)I regained my energy. I was drinking 24 to 32 ounces of juice a day. I ate no dairy products. And I had my best year as an athlete ever! (…) I know that many people think that eating a vegetarian diet - and especially a vegan diet – will require sacrifice and denial. Jannequin Bennett demonstrates in this book that eating vegan does not have to be tasteless and boring.” – Carl Lewis, Excerpt from Carl Lewis’ introduction to Very Vegetarian, by Jannequin Bennett - View Quote Details on “In fact, my best year of track competition was the…
“Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, nothing so surely unmortars a society; nothing, we might plausibly argue, will so harden and degrade the minds of those that practice it. And yet we ourselves make much the same appearance in the eyes of the Buddhist and the vegetarian. We consume the carcasses of creatures of like appetites, passions, and organs with ourselves; we feed on babes, though not our own; and the slaughter-house resounds daily with screams of pain and fear. We distinguish, indeed; but the unwillingness of many nations to eat the dog, an animal with whom we live on terms of the next intimacy, shows how precariously the distinction is grounded.” - Robert Louis Stevenson, In the South Seas, Chapter XI - View Quote Details on “Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, nothing so…
“Eating animals as food is not far away from athropophagy and cannibalism.” – Alexander von Humbold - View Quote Details on “Eating animals as food is not far away from athropophagy…