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“The table was well spread with all manner of fruit, beans, greenstuff and good pies…but of flesh and fish there was never a sign.” – Shmuel Yosef Agnon, The Bridal Canopy - View Quote Details on “The table was well spread with all manner of fruit,…
“Some people seem to think that if the animals were not eaten they would multiply so rapidly as to overrun the earth. Is it not true that the more beef there is consumed the more there is raised? These people do not understand that there are men in the business who have made an effort to increase their stock by forced means.” - Ha’nish Otoman Zar-Adusht Ha’nish, Mazdaznan Dietetics and Cookery Book, 1913, p. 197 - View Quote Details on “Some people seem to think that if the animals were…
“How would our society women like to spend the morning in a slaughterhouse, before they could procure their meat for evening dinner?” - Hereward Carrington, Natural Food of Man, p. 161 - View Quote Details on “How would our society women like to spend the morning…
“Would the delicate ladies who devour sanguinary beef-steaks like to see their sons working as slaughtermen? If not, then they have no right to put this task upon some other woman’s son. – C.W. Leadbeater, Vegetarianism and Occultism, 1913, p. 28 - View Quote Details on “Would the delicate ladies who devour sanguinary beef-steaks like to…
“Man could live on vegetables alone. However the whole of nature is not enough to satisfy his intemperance and the inconsistent variety of his appetite. Man by himself consumes and devours more meat than all the other animals together and not out of necessity but as a form of abuse. ” – Count Buffon - View Quote Details on “Man could live on vegetables alone. However the whole of…
“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…
“They say that vegetable food is not sufficiently nutritious. But chemistry proves the contrary. So does physiology. So does experience. […] And again: the largest and strongest animals in the world are those which eat no flesh-food of any kind-the elephant and the rhinoceros.” - Dr. Russel Trall, Scientific Basis of Vegetarianism, p. 20 - View Quote Details on “They say that vegetable food is not sufficiently nutritious. But…
“Have you just started that meal or are you just finishing it?” - Winston Churchill to vegetarian cabinet minister Sir Stafford Cripps as they ate a meal together. - View Quote Details on “Have you just started that meal or are you just…
“It is strange to hear people talk on humanitarianism, who are members of societies for prevention of cruelty to children and animals, and who claim to be God-loving men and women, but who, nevertheless, encourage by their patronage the killing of animals merely to gratify the cravings of appetite.” - Ha’nish Otoman Zar-Adusht Ha’nish, Mazdaznan Dietetics and Cookery Book, 1913, p. 196 - View Quote Details on “It is strange to hear people talk on humanitarianism, who…
George Nicholson (1760 - 1825), Remarks on defenses of flesh-eating - View Quote Details on George Nicholson (1760 - 1825), Remarks on defenses of flesh-eating