” In all the round world of Utopia there is…

” In all the round world of Utopia there is no meat. There used to be. But now we cannot stand the thought of slaughter-houses. And, in a population that is all educated, and at about the same level of physical refinement, it is practically impossible to find anyone who will hew a dead ox or pig. We never settled the hygienic question of meat-eating at all. This other aspect decided us. I can still remember, as a boy, the rejoicings over the closing of the last slaughter-house.” - H.G. Wells, On A Modern Utopia Chapter the Ninth, The Samurai, Section 5

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“Those who believe that the slaughtering of animal for food and goods are flawed in their thinking. That is, the belief that the natural order, the order that animals eat animals, is immoral in anyway is a justification of the lifestyle and opinions of another.” - Jared Miller, research on human nature. - View Quote Details on “Those who believe that the slaughtering of animal for food…
“Further, it should be clear that meat in itself as protein is not much superior to eggs or nuts and could not alter the evolution of the brain; if this were so this miracle food would have continued to enlarge humans’ brain size in succeeding years when much greater amounts of meat were consumed ” – Colin Spencer, The Heretic’s Feast - View Quote Details on “Further, it should be clear that meat in itself as…
” 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…
“I think there’s something odd about eating another living anything.” – Shania Twain - View Quote Details on “I think there’s something odd about eating another living anything.”…
“There is a true correlation between our food choices and violence in the world. The only person who would disagree with that is a meat-eater.” - Peter Burwash - View Quote Details on “There is a true correlation between our food choices and…
“We must recognize that it is ecological suicide for us to endeavour to maintain a meat based agriculture and a primary carnivorous diet.” - Michael W. Fox, Inhumane Society, 1990 - View Quote Details on “We must recognize that it is ecological suicide for us…
“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…
“No humane being, past the thoughtless age of boyhood, will wantonly murder any creature which holds its life by the same tenure that he does.” - Henry David Thoreau - View Quote Details on “No humane being, past the thoughtless age of boyhood, will…
“Since I stopped eating meat, I have noticed that my digestion is better, my thoughts are better, and I run instead of walking. […] I eat vegetables and all kinds of vegetarian food. I am a vegetarian. I am not a meat-eater.” - Vaslav Nijinsky, The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky - View Quote Details on “Since I stopped eating meat, I have noticed that my…
“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’…