“Most eminent physiologists declare that fruit is the natural food…

“Most eminent physiologists declare that fruit is the natural food for man, and… we have the example of Buddha, Pythagoras, Plato, Porphyry, Ray, Daniel, Wesley, Howard, Shelley, Sir Isaac Pitman, Edison, Sir W. B. Richardson, and a host of other eminent men as vegetarians.” – Mohandas Gandhi, Religious Vegetarianism from Hesiod to the Dalai Lama

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“It is demonstrated that brutes are rational animals, reason in most of them being indeed imperfect, of which, nevertheless, they are not entirely deprived. Since, however, justice pertains to rational beings, as our opponents say, how is it possible not to admit, that we should also act justly towards brutes?” - Porphyry, On Abstinence from Animal Food - View Quote Details on “It is demonstrated that brutes are rational animals, reason in…
“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…
” The same amount of land used to graze and feed cattle could feed ten people, if however we cultivated it with lentils, kidney beans or peas it could feed a hundred people….The Orinoco basin can produce sufficient bananas to feed the whole of mankind comfortably. ” – Alexander von Humbold - View Quote Details on ” The same amount of land used to graze and…
“If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?” - John Cleese (vegetarian) - View Quote Details on “If God did not intend for us to eat animals,…
” In all the round world of Utopia there is no meat. There used to be. But now we cannot stand the thought of slaughter-houses. And, in a population that is all educated, and at about the same level of physical refinement, it is practically impossible to find anyone who will hew a dead ox or pig. We never settled the hygienic question of meat-eating at all. This other aspect decided us. I can still remember, as a boy, the rejoicings over the closing of the last slaughter-house.” - H.G. Wells, On A Modern Utopia Chapter the Ninth, The Samurai, Section 5 - View Quote Details on ” In all the round world of Utopia there is…
“[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 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…
“In the next ten years, one of the things you’re bound to hear is that animal protein … is one of the most toxic nutrients of all that can be considered.” - Dr. T. Colin Campbell - View Quote Details on “In the next ten years, one of the things you’re…
” Simonson, in his rubber jacket and rubber overshoes fastened with a string over his worsted stockings (he was a vegetarian and would not wear the skin of slaughtered animals), was also in the courtyard waiting for the gang to start.” - Leo Tolstoy, Resurrection, Book III, chap I - View Quote Details on ” Simonson, in his rubber jacket and rubber overshoes fastened…
“I believe my dear Master has been pleased to try my faith and obedience by teaching me that I ought no longer to partake of anything that had life.” - Joshua Evans - View Quote Details on “I believe my dear Master has been pleased to try…