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“Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.” - Albert Einstein

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“Certainly, if the entire world decided to become vegan tomorrow, a whole host of the world’s problems would disappear overnight. Climate change would decrease by 25 percent, deforestation would cease, rainforests would be preserved, our water- and air-quality would increase, life-expectancy rates would increase, and our rates of cancer would plummet, so certainly, with that one action of becoming vegan you are quite effectively making the world a better place.” - Moby, VegNews interview - View Quote Details on “Certainly, if the entire world decided to become vegan tomorrow,…
“Answer me, machinist, has nature arranged all the means of feeling in this animal, so that it may not feel? has it nerves in order to be impassible? Do not suppose this impertinent contradiction in nature.” - Voltaire - View Quote Details on “Answer me, machinist, has nature arranged all the means of…
George Nicholson (1760 - 1825), Remarks on defenses of flesh-eating - View Quote Details on George Nicholson (1760 - 1825), Remarks on defenses of flesh-eating
Vegetarian: old Indian word for “lousy hunter.” - Bumper sticker - View Quote Details on Vegetarian: old Indian word for “lousy hunter.” - Bumper sticker
“We found that many animal-based nutrients … are strongly associated with risk of developing these types of cancers.” – Dr. Susan Mayne - View Quote Details on “We found that many animal-based nutrients … are strongly associated…
” We cannot pretend that we do not know this. We are not ostriches, and cannot believe that if we refuse to look at what we do not wish to see, it will not exist. This is especially the case when what we do not wish to see is what we wish to eat. If it were really indispensable, or, if not indispensable, at least in some way useful! But it is quite unnecessary, and only serves to develop animal feelings, to excite desire, and to promote fornication and drunkenness. And this is continually being confirmed by the fact that young, kind, undepraved people—especially women and girls—without knowing how it logically follows, feel that virtue is incompatible with beefsteaks, and, as soon as they wish to be good, give up eating flesh.” - Leo Tolstoy, Essays and Letters, The First Step - View Quote Details on ” We cannot pretend that we do not know this…
“Studies have shown that [animal waste] lagoons emit toxic airborne chemicals that can cause inflammatory, immune, irritation and neurochemical problems in humans.” - California State Senate, 2004 - View Quote Details on “Studies have shown that [animal waste] lagoons emit toxic airborne…
“Refrain at all times such foods as cannot be procured without violence and oppression. For know that all the inferior Creatures, when hurt, do cry and send forth their complaints to their Maker.” - Thomas Tryon, The Way to Health, Long Life, and Happiness, 1683 - View Quote Details on “Refrain at all times such foods as cannot be procured…
“He who has ever turned with abhorrence from the skeleton of a beast which has been picked whole by birds or vermin, must confess that habit alone could have enabled him to endure the sight of the mangled bones and flesh of a dead carcase which every day cover his table.” - John Hawkesworth, in his edition of Swift’s Works - View Quote Details on “He who has ever turned with abhorrence from the skeleton…
“According to a University of California study, it takes 5,214 gallons of water to produce 1 pound of beef. That’s more than a year of daily showers in exchange for 4 hamburgers. Even more fun, you can drive in your car for 3 hours and leave all the lights on in your house while doing it and you’re greenhouse gas emissions will not equal what comes from the production of just one kilogram of beef.” - liveearth.org, Chicken or Beef? Or Vegetarian? Or Vegan? - View Quote Details on “According to a University of California study, it takes 5,214…