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“None, so far as I know, will affirm or at least with any show of reason maintain, that anatomy, so far as that goes, is in favour of flesh eating ” – Dr. William A. Alcott, The Vegetable Diet: As Sanctioned by Medical Men and by Experience in All Ages

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“I can never accept inconsistency or injustice. Even if it comes from God. If there would come a voice from God saying, “I’m against vegetarianism!” I would say, “Well, I am for it!” This is how strongly I feel in this regard.” - Isaac Bashevis Singer, from the Preface to Food for the Spirit: Vegetarianism and the World Religions - View Quote Details on “I can never accept inconsistency or injustice. Even if it…
“It is only by softening and disguising, dead flesh by culinary preparation, that it is rendered susceptible of mastication or digestion; and that the sight of its bloody juices and raw horror, does not excite intolerable loathing and disgust. Let the advocate of animal food, force himself to a decisive experiment on its fitness, and as Plutarch recommends, tear a living lamb with his teeth, and plunging his head into its vitals, slake his thirst with the steaming blood; when fresh from the deed ofhorror let him revert to the irresistible instincts of nature that would rise in judgment against it, and say, Nature formed me for such work as this. Then, and then only, would he be consistent.” - Percy Bysshe Shelley, A Vindication of Natural Diet, 1813 - View Quote Details on “It is only by softening and disguising, dead flesh by…
” It is not a digression to mention the horrors of war in connection with the massacre of cattle and carnivorous banquets. The diet of individuals corresponds closely to their manners. Blood demands blood. On this point anyone who searches among his recollections of the people whom he has known will find there can be no possible doubt as to the contrast which exists between vegetarians and coarse eaters of flesh, greedy drinkers of blood, in amenity of manner, gentleness of disposition and regularity of life.” - Elisée Reclus, On Vegetarianism - View Quote Details on ” It is not a digression to mention the horrors…
“Life remains immoral or only falsely moral, if there is cruelty and killing for the satisfaction of our daily needs.” - Swami Avyaktananda - View Quote Details on “Life remains immoral or only falsely moral, if there is…
“There is no logical basis to support the theory that plants feel pain. The dubious possibility that they might, however, is no justification for killing obviously sentient beings. Any rational person understands the striking difference between slitting the throat of a sentient animal and plucking a fruit or a vegetable.” - Joanne Stepaniak, M.S. Ed., Being Vegan - View Quote Details on “There is no logical basis to support the theory that…
“For every 16 pounds of grain and soy fed to beef cattle in the United States we only get 1 pound back in meat on our plates. The other 15 pounds are inaccessible to us, either used by the animal to produce energy or to make some part of its own body that we do not eat (like hair or bones) or excreted.” – Frances Moore Lappé, Diet for a Small Planet - View Quote Details on “For every 16 pounds of grain and soy fed to…
“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…
“People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.” - Isaac Bashevis Singer - View Quote Details on “People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as…
“Those who eat flesh are but eating grains and vegetables at second hand; for the animal receives from these things the nutrition that produces growth. The life that was in the grains and the vegetables passes into the eater. We receive it by eating the flesh of the animal. How much better to get it direct by eating the food that God provided for our use!” - Ellen White, Health and Happiness, 1905 - View Quote Details on “Those who eat flesh are but eating grains and vegetables…