“Meat is for beasts to feed on.” - Ovid

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“The cow doesn’t grow fast enough for man / So through his greed he makes a faster plan / He has drugs to make the cow grow quicker / Through the stress the cow gets sicker / Twenty-one different drugs are pumped / Into the cow in one big lump / So just before it dies, it cries / In the slaughterhouse full of germs and flies / Off with the head, they pack it, drain it, and cart it / And there it is, in your local supermarket / Red and bloody, a corpse, neatly packed / And you wonder about heart attacks? ” - KRS-One, Boogie Down Productions, 1990, Edutainment, Beef - View Quote Details on “The cow doesn’t grow fast enough for man / So…
Jack LaLanne, Interview by Dennis Hughes, Share Guide - View Quote Details on Jack LaLanne, Interview by Dennis Hughes, Share Guide
“Just as, in our days, exposure of children, combats of gladiators, torture of prisioners, and other atrocities are held to be scandalous and shameful, while in earlier times they were thought quite justifiable and right, so in the future will be the murder of animals, to feed upon their corpses, be pronounced to be immoral and indefensible.” – Wilhelm Zimmermann(1819-1885), The Way to Paradise - View Quote Details on “Just as, in our days, exposure of children, combats of…
“There’s so many animals, there’s not enough land anymore and everything’s swamped with pesticides and fertilizers… It’s destroying just about everything - topsoil, wildlife, water, birds. If everyone went veggie we’d need only about half the amount of land and we could have real forests and wild places again…. Animals use up huge amounts of water and there are billions of them. You can feed ten times the number of people on the food they give to animals… If you can feed ten times the number of people by not passing food through animals first and then killing them. That’s got to make people think… It’s sucking in the world’s supplies of grain and soya which are needed for people. It’s costing lives. That’s why we’ve got to get our message out there.” – Paul McCartney, PETA interview - View Quote Details on “There’s so many animals, there’s not enough land anymore and…
“The meat industry spends hundreds of millions of dollars lying to the public about their product. But no amount of false propaganda can sanitize meat. The facts are absolutely clear: Eating meat is bad for human health, catastrophic for the environment, and a living nightmare for animals” – Chrissie Hynde from The Pretenders, in the PETA website - View Quote Details on “The meat industry spends hundreds of millions of dollars lying…
“When John Coltrane came to me, he looked different from his contemporaries: so clean, well-mannered and humble. About six months earlier he had apparently given up drugs and drink, become a vegetarian and taken to reading Ramakrishna’s book’s.” - Ravi Shankar, Raga Mala - View Quote Details on “When John Coltrane came to me, he looked different from…
“Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self righteousness.” - Robert Hutchinson - View Quote Details on “Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill…
“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…
Rod Serling, The Twilight Zone (”To Serve Man “) - View Quote Details on Rod Serling, The Twilight Zone (”To Serve Man “)
“I am a very strict vegetarian….I just really, really love animals, and I act on my values.” – Natalie Portman - View Quote Details on “I am a very strict vegetarian….I just really, really love…