“It is interesting to note that scientific men all over…

“It is interesting to note that scientific men all over the world are awakened to the fact that the flesh of animals as food is not a pure nutriment, but is mixed with poisonous substances, excrementitious in character, which are the natural results of animal life.”– Dr.John Harvey Kellogg, quoted by C.W. Leadbeater in Vegetarianism and Occultism, 1913, p. 14

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“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…
“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…
“Certainly, if the entire world decided to become vegan tomorrow, a whole host of the world’s problems would disappear overnight. Climate change would decrease by 25 percent, deforestation would cease, rainforests would be preserved, our water- and air-quality would increase, life-expectancy rates would increase, and our rates of cancer would plummet, so certainly, with that one action of becoming vegan you are quite effectively making the world a better place.” - Moby, VegNews interview - View Quote Details on “Certainly, if the entire world decided to become vegan tomorrow,…
“Behold the Venus flytrap, the complete answer to the philosophy of vegetarianism” - Tom Edwards - View Quote Details on “Behold the Venus flytrap, the complete answer to the philosophy…
“I’m 44 years old. My oldest son is 20 years old. Most people who don’t know us think I’m his girlfriend or sister rather than his mom. How’s that for motivation!” – Lisa Koehn, in www.veganbodybuilding.com - View Quote Details on “I’m 44 years old. My oldest son is 20 years…
“It is certainly preferable to raise vegetables, and I think, therefore, that vegetarianism is a commendable departure from the established barbarous habit. That we can subsist on plant food and perform our work even to advantage is not a theory, but a well-demonstrated fact. Many races living almost exclusively on vegetables are of superior physique and strength. There is no doubt that some plant food, such as oatmeal, is more economical than meat, and superior to it in regard to both mechanical and mental performance. Such food, moreover, taxes our digestive organs decidedly less, and, in making us more contented and sociable, produces an amount of good difficult to estimate. In view of these facts every effort should be made to stop the wanton and cruel slaughter of animals, which must be destructive to our morals. ” - Nikola Tesla (Century Illustrated Magazine, June 1900) - View Quote Details on “It is certainly preferable to raise vegetables, and I think,…
“The mixing of meat and milk is a grave offense, an act that is pervaded altogether with the oppression of life, an oppression of a living being-and of property.” – Abraham Isaac Kook, Religious Vegetarianism from Hesiod to the Dalai Lama - View Quote Details on “The mixing of meat and milk is a grave offense,…
“I’m a postmodern vegetarian - I eat meat ironically.” ~ Bill Bailey (Part Troll) - View Quote Details on “I’m a postmodern vegetarian - I eat meat ironically.” ~…
“There is in man a disposition to compassion as generally diffused as his other instincts. Newton had cultivated this sentiment of humanity, and he extended it to the lower animals. With Locke he was strongly convinced that God has given to them a proportion of ideas, and the same feelings, which he has to us… In truth, without humanity, a virtue which comprehends all virtues, the name of philosopher is little deserved.” - Voltaire, Elémens de la Philosophie de Newton - View Quote Details on “There is in man a disposition to compassion as generally…
” It is not a digression to mention the horrors of war in connection with the massacre of cattle and carnivorous banquets. The diet of individuals corresponds closely to their manners. Blood demands blood. On this point anyone who searches among his recollections of the people whom he has known will find there can be no possible doubt as to the contrast which exists between vegetarians and coarse eaters of flesh, greedy drinkers of blood, in amenity of manner, gentleness of disposition and regularity of life.” - Elisée Reclus, On Vegetarianism - View Quote Details on ” It is not a digression to mention the horrors…