“Strange spectacle! To see a mother giving her daughter, whom…

“Strange spectacle! To see a mother giving her daughter, whom but yesterday she was suckling at her breast, this gross aliment of bloody meats, and the dangerous excitant wine!” - Jules Michelet, La Femme, vi. Onzième Edition, Paris, 1879

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“Vegetarianism is a way of life that we should all move toward foe economic survival, physical well-being and spiritual integrity.” - Father Thomas Berry - View Quote Details on “Vegetarianism is a way of life that we should all…
“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…
“Chickens, pigs, and other animals … are interesting individuals with personalities and intelligence. … What people need to understand is that if they’re eating animals, they are promoting cruelty to animals.” – Pamela Anderson, in the PETA website - View Quote Details on “Chickens, pigs, and other animals … are interesting individuals with…
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“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…
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“There is no doubt, that man is not built to be a carnivorous animal. What a sweet, pleasing and innocent sight is the spectacle of a table served that way and what a difference to a make up of fuming animal meat, slaughtered and dead! Man in no way has the constitution of a carnivorous being. Hunt and voracity are unnatural to him. Man has neither the sharp pointed teeth or claws to slaughter his prey. On the contrary his hands are made to pick fruits, berries and vegetables and teeth appropriate to chew them.” – John Ray - View Quote Details on “There is no doubt, that man is not built to…
“I, for my part, wonder of what sort of feeling, mind or reason that man was possessed who was first to pollute his mouth with gore, and allow his lips to touch the flesh of a murdered being; who spread his table with the mangled forms of dead bodies, and claimed as daily food and dainty dishes what but now were beings endowed with movement, with perception and with voice. For the sake of some little mouthful of flesh we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that portion of life and time it had been born into the world to enjoy.” - Plutarch, Moralia. - View Quote Details on “I, for my part, wonder of what sort of feeling,…
“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…
“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…