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“Insecticides, pesticides, products that are used in paint and preservation of wood, hormones, and animal drugs all turn up in meat.” - Carol Tucker Foreman, Former Assistant Secretary of Agriculture

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Other Vegetarianism Quotes

Hereward Carrington, The Natural Food for Man, p. 159-160 - View Quote Details on Hereward Carrington, The Natural Food for Man, p. 159-160
“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…
“I’m on a vegan diet, I do yoga every day, I work out, I’m totally spiritual…” -Avril Lavigne - View Quote Details on “I’m on a vegan diet, I do yoga every day,…
” 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…
“As I cannot kill, I cannot authorize others to kill. Do you see? If you are buying from a butcher you are authorizing him to kill – to kill helpless, dumb creatures which neither you nor I could kill ourselves.” - Paul Troubetzkoy, quoted in ”Vegetarian Food for Thought - View Quote Details on “As I cannot kill, I cannot authorize others to kill…
“It is frightful wrong that other species are tortured, worried, flayed, and devored by us, in spite of the fact that we are not obliged to this by necessity; while in sinning against the defenceless and helpless, just claimants as they are upon our reasonable conscience and upon our compassion, we succeed only in brutalising ourselves.” – Georg Friedrich Daumer, quoted by Howard Williams in The Ethics of Diet - View Quote Details on “It is frightful wrong that other species are tortured, worried,…
“So-called farms today treat animals like so many boxes in a warehouse, chopping off beaks and tails and genitals with no painkillers at all, inflicting third-degree burns repeatedly by branding cows, … and just a horrible catalog of abuses that, if done to dogs or cats, would be illegal on grounds of animal cruelty.” – James Cromwell, in the PETA website - View Quote Details on “So-called farms today treat animals like so many boxes in…
“I was raised on flesh, more flesh, still flesh, always flesh. When I started to use reason and organized my code of principles, I included vegetarianism in it; but it was too late to execute it.”– Machado de Assis, A Semana, 5 de Março de 1893 - View Quote Details on “I was raised on flesh, more flesh, still flesh, always…
” [A]lthough we think we are one and we act as if we are one, human beings are not natural carnivores. When we kill animals to eat them, they end up killing us because their flesh, which contains cholesterol and saturated fat, was never intended for human beings, who are natural herbivores.” - Dr. William C. Roberts, M.D., editor of the authoritative American Journal of Cardiology - View Quote Details on ” [A]lthough we think we are one and we act…
“The link between animal products and heart disease is now very well documented. It’s no surprise that half of all Americans develop heart disease, because the typical U.S. diet puts almost everyone at risk.” – Dean Ornish, MD, head of the Preventative Medicine Research Institute in California - View Quote Details on “The link between animal products and heart disease is now…