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“It may take a while, but there will probably come a time when we look back and say, ‘Good Lord, do you believe that in the 20th century and early part of the 21st, people were still eating animals?’.” – Mary Tyler Moore

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Other Vegetarianism Quotes

“It is the position of the American Dietetic Association and Dietitians of Canada that appropriately planned vegetarian diets are healthful, nutritionally adequate and provide health benefits in the prevention and treatment of certain diseases. ” - American Dietetic Association, (from their website www.eatright.org) - View Quote Details on “It is the position of the American Dietetic Association and…
“Studies have shown that [animal waste] lagoons emit toxic airborne chemicals that can cause inflammatory, immune, irritation and neurochemical problems in humans.” - California State Senate, 2004 - View Quote Details on “Studies have shown that [animal waste] lagoons emit toxic airborne…
“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…
” The destruction of animals for food, in its details and tendencies, involves so much cruelty as to cause every reflecting individual – not destitude of the ordinary sensibilities of nature – to shudder.” – William A. Alcott, Vegtable Diet, 1848 - View Quote Details on ” The destruction of animals for food, in its details…
“[I]t’s untreated and unsanitary, bubbling with chemicals and diseased. … It goes onto the soil and into the water that many people will, ultimately, bathe in and wash their clothes with and drink. It is poisoning rivers and killing fish and making people sick. … Catastrophic cases of pollution, sickness, and death are occurring in areas where livestock operations are concentrated. … Every place where the animal factories have located, neighbors have complained of falling sick.” - U.S. Staggers Under Weight of Waste From Farm Animals, 1998 - View Quote Details on “[I]t’s untreated and unsanitary, bubbling with chemicals and diseased. ……
” 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 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…
“Answer me, machinist, has nature arranged all the means of feeling in this animal, so that it may not feel? has it nerves in order to be impassible? Do not suppose this impertinent contradiction in nature.” - Voltaire - View Quote Details on “Answer me, machinist, has nature arranged all the means of…
“I’ve been a vegan since I was about 3 years old and involved in animal rights for years. I’ve seen a number of animal rights films throghout the years, nona has affected me as profoundly as Earthlings. ” – Joaquin Phoenix, interview from the official Earthlings website - View Quote Details on “I’ve been a vegan since I was about 3 years…
“Thousands of people who say they ‘love’ animals sit down once or twice a day to enjoy the flesh of creatures who have been utterly deprived of everything that could make their lives worth living and who endured the awful suffering and the terror of the abattoirs.” - Jane Goodall, The Ten Trusts - View Quote Details on “Thousands of people who say they ‘love’ animals sit down…