“The animals of the world exist for their own reasons…

“The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites or women for men.” - Alice Walker.

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“It is incredible how much prejudice has been allowed to operate in favor of meat, while so many facts are opposed to the pretended necessity of its use.” – Phillip Hecquet - View Quote Details on “It is incredible how much prejudice has been allowed to…
“Poor little innocent creatures, if you were reasoning beings and could speak, how you would curse us! For we are the cause of your death, and what have you done to deserve it?” – Saint Richard of Wyche, quoted by Dr. Holly Roberts in Vegetarian Christian Saints, p. 191 - View Quote Details on “Poor little innocent creatures, if you were reasoning beings and…
“Auschwitz begins whenever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they’re only animals.” - Theodor Adorno - View Quote Details on “Auschwitz begins whenever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks:…
“A kilogram of beef is responsible for more greenhouse gas emissions and other pollution than driving for 3 hours while leaving all the lights on back home.[...] In other words, a kilogram of beef is responsible for the equivalent of the amount of CO2 emitted by the average European car every 250 kilometres, and burns enough energy to light a 100-watt bulb for nearly 20 days.” - New Scientist magazine, 18 July 2007, page 15 - View Quote Details on “A kilogram of beef is responsible for more greenhouse gas…
“When John Coltrane came to me, he looked different from his contemporaries: so clean, well-mannered and humble. About six months earlier he had apparently given up drugs and drink, become a vegetarian and taken to reading Ramakrishna’s book’s.” - Ravi Shankar, Raga Mala - View Quote Details on “When John Coltrane came to me, he looked different from…
“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 - View Quote Details on “Most eminent physiologists declare that fruit is the natural food…
“Further, it should be clear that meat in itself as protein is not much superior to eggs or nuts and could not alter the evolution of the brain; if this were so this miracle food would have continued to enlarge humans’ brain size in succeeding years when much greater amounts of meat were consumed ” – Colin Spencer, The Heretic’s Feast - View Quote Details on “Further, it should be clear that meat in itself as…
“A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral.” - Henry David Thoreau, On Civil Disobedience - View Quote Details on “A man can live and be healthy without killing animals…
“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…
“Insecticides, pesticides, products that are used in paint and preservation of wood, hormones, and animal drugs all turn up in meat.” - Carol Tucker Foreman, Former Assistant Secretary of Agriculture - View Quote Details on “Insecticides, pesticides, products that are used in paint and preservation…