“Jesus’ message is about love and compassion, but there is…

“Jesus’ message is about love and compassion, but there is nothing loving or compassionate at factory farms and slaughterhouses, where billions of animals endure miserable lives and die violent deaths. Jesus mandates kindness and mercy for all God’s creatures. He’d be appalled by the suffering that we inflict on animals today to indulge our acquired taste for their flesh.” - Bruce Friedrich, Is Eating Meat A Catholic Sin?

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Henry Stephens Salt, The Sending of the Animals - View Quote Details on Henry Stephens Salt, The Sending of the Animals
“It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living by its purely physical effect on the human temperament would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind.” - Albert Einstein, letter to Vegetarian Watch-Tower, December 27, 1930 - View Quote Details on “It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living…
“I, for my part, wonder of what sort of feeling, mind or reason that man was possessed who was first to pollute his mouth with gore, and allow his lips to touch the flesh of a murdered being; who spread his table with the mangled forms of dead bodies, and claimed as daily food and dainty dishes what but now were beings endowed with movement, with perception and with voice. For the sake of some little mouthful of flesh we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that portion of life and time it had been born into the world to enjoy.” - Plutarch, Moralia. - View Quote Details on “I, for my part, wonder of what sort of feeling,…
” When the soil is given up to the feeding of cattle, upon which man is to feed, the given area of land would supply far less nutriment, so to speak, than would the same soil, if grains were raised upon it… ” - Hereward Carrington, The Natural Food for Man, p. 162 - View Quote Details on ” When the soil is given up to the feeding…
“I don’t understand why asking people to eat a well-balanced vegetarian diet is considered drastic, while it’s medically conservative to cut people open or put them on powerful cholesterol-lowering drugs for the rest of their lives.” – Dean Ornish, MD, head of the Preventative Medicine Research Institute in California - View Quote Details on “I don’t understand why asking people to eat a well-balanced…
“My endurance has gone up, and I haven’t gotten tired at all during the whole season. I don’t think you should eat something that had a mother.” - Salim Stoudmire, Animal Times, Spring, 2008, p. 17 - View Quote Details on “My endurance has gone up, and I haven’t gotten tired…
“[W]e were selling books, and right next to us was an old man. I mean, he had to be about 80 years old, and he was a nutritionist, but he was a holistic nutritionist, and he was talking to us about how you shouldn’t really eat animals and things of that nature… and he pulled up his shirt and the man had the abs of a 15-year-old. He says to us, “Touch ’em. Punch me,”—whatever—and he’s like, “How old do you think I am?” And we thought he was about 50 years old, and he’s like, “I’m 86 years old.”… We looked at each other, me and my friends, and we were, like, when we’re 86, we want to be like that…. So that’s what started it.” – Jeru the Damaja, in a peta2 interview - View Quote Details on “[W]e were selling books, and right next to us was…
“On both sides of the road, the forest has been cleared as far as the eye can see. For the most part, it has been cleared for cattle ranching. Today, there are over 8 million cattle in Brazilian Amazonia. Meat production is extremely inefficient (50 kg/hectare/year), making ranching an activity which is so wholly uneconomic that it would probably never have been undertaken on the present scale in the Brazilian Government, with aid from the World Bank and other multilateral development banks, had not poured $2 billion into subsidizing the cattle industry in Amazonia.” - N. Hildyard, Adios Amazonia? - View Quote Details on “On both sides of the road, the forest has been…
“I stopped eating meat about six years ago, when I was working on the movie Selena. During the shoot, I had to hold a chicken for five hours—if you hold it and feel its little heart beating for hours, you just can’t think about eating it.” – Constance Marie - View Quote Details on “I stopped eating meat about six years ago, when I…
“The too obvious fact that a large portion of animals are carnivorous neither proves nor justifies the carnivorousness of the human species.” - Howard Williams (1837-1931), The Ethics of Diet - View Quote Details on “The too obvious fact that a large portion of animals…