” Like my friend the Doctor, I have lived temperately,…

” Like my friend the Doctor, I have lived temperately, eating little animal food, and that not as an ailment, so much as a condiment for the vegetables, which constitute my principle diet” - Thomas Jefferson, letter written on March 21, 1819 to Dr. Vine Utley

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“Don´t live to eat, eat to live” – Antoni Gaudi, (Gaudi was a vegetarian), Juan Bergós Massó, Gaudí, el hombre y la obra, Barcelona : Universidad Politécnica, 1974 - View Quote Details on “Don´t live to eat, eat to live” – Antoni Gaudi,…
“There can be no purity whilst the flesh of creatures is partaken of and inhumanity toward animals is practiced.” - Ruth Harrison, Animal Machines - View Quote Details on “There can be no purity whilst the flesh of creatures…
“Chickens, pigs, and other animals … are interesting individuals with personalities and intelligence. … What people need to understand is that if they’re eating animals, they are promoting cruelty to animals.” – Pamela Anderson, in the PETA website - View Quote Details on “Chickens, pigs, and other animals … are interesting individuals with…
“[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…
“When people ask me why I don’t eat meat or any other animal products, I say, ‘Because they are unhealthy and they are the product of a violent and inhumane industry.” - Casey Affleck, in a PETA video - View Quote Details on “When people ask me why I don’t eat meat or…
“It is often said, as an excuse for the slaughter of animals, that it is better for them to live and to be butchered than not to live at all. Now, obviously, if such reasoning justifies the practice of flesh-eating, it must equally justify all breeding of animals for profit or pastime, when their life is a fairly happy one. (…) In fact, if we once admit that it is an advantage to an animal to be brought into the world, there is hardly any treatment that cannot be justified by the supposed terms of such a contract. Also, the argument must apply to mankind. It has, in fact, been the plea of the slave-breeder; and it is logically just as good an excuse for slave-holding as for flesh-eating. It would justify parents in almost any treatment of their children, who owe them, for the great boon of life, a debt of gratitude which no subsequent services can repay. We could hardly deny the same merit to cannibals, if they were to breed their human victims for the table, as the early Peruvians are said to have done.” - Henry Stephens Salt, On The Humanities of Diet - View Quote Details on “It is often said, as an excuse for the slaughter…
“Auschwitz begins whenever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they’re only animals.” - Theodor Adorno - View Quote Details on “Auschwitz begins whenever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks:…
” It seems obvious to me that a Christ-child who is depicted in the scriptures as being born in the stable, surrounded by animals, is not meant to be the figurehead of a Great Slaughter and a feast of gluttony and self indulgence. ” – Lady Dowding - View Quote Details on ” It seems obvious to me that a Christ-child who…
“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…
“Life is full of choices, and many years ago, I chose to become a vegetarian, and it was one of the best choices I’ve ever made. ” – Forest Whitaker, in a video for PETA - View Quote Details on “Life is full of choices, and many years ago, I…