“The butcher with his bloody apron incites bloodshed, murder. Why…

“The butcher with his bloody apron incites bloodshed, murder. Why not? From cutting the throat of a young calf to cutting the throat of our brothers and sisters is but a step. While we are ourselves the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal conditions on the earth? ” – Isadora Duncan, My Life

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“The superiority of the diet I recommend is established beyond the possibility of debate.” – Dr. William A. Alcott, The Vegetable Diet: As Sanctioned by Medical Men and by Experience in All Ages - View Quote Details on “The superiority of the diet I recommend is established beyond…
“The time will come in the world’s history, and a movement is setting in that direction even now, when it will be deemed as strange a thing to find a man or a woman who eats flesh as food, as it is now to find a man or woman who refrains from eating it.” - Ralph Waldo Trine (1866-1958), Every Living Creature, p. 34 - View Quote Details on “The time will come in the world’s history, and a…
“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,…
“Why is compassion not part of our established curriculum, an inherent part of our education? Compassion, awe, wonder, curiosity, exaltation, humility - these are the very foundation of any real civilization, no longer the prerogatives, the preserves of any one church,. but belonging to everyone, every child in every home, in every school.” - Yehudi Menuhin, Just for the animals - View Quote Details on “Why is compassion not part of our established curriculum, an…
“The factory meat industry has polluted thousands of miles of America’s rivers, killed billions of fish, pushed tens of thousands of family farmers off their land, sickened and killed thousands of U.S. citizens, and treated millions of farm animals with unspeakable and unnecessary cruelty.” - Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Waterkeeper Alliance - View Quote Details on “The factory meat industry has polluted thousands of miles of…
“In the next ten years, one of the things you’re bound to hear is that animal protein … is one of the most toxic nutrients of all that can be considered.” - Dr. T. Colin Campbell - View Quote Details on “In the next ten years, one of the things you’re…
“Do we have the right to rear animals in order to kill them so that we may feed appetites in which we have been artificially conditioned from childhood?” - Ashley Montagu - View Quote Details on “Do we have the right to rear animals in order…
“(Of the mouth of man which is a tomb) there shall come forth loud noises out of the tombs of those who have died by an evil and violent death.” - Leonardo da Vinci, (Prophecies). - View Quote Details on “(Of the mouth of man which is a tomb) there…
“Behold the Venus flytrap, the complete answer to the philosophy of vegetarianism” - Tom Edwards - View Quote Details on “Behold the Venus flytrap, the complete answer to the philosophy…
“We will one day think it is as horrible to eat animals as we now think it horrible to eat each other. ” - Rose Scott - View Quote Details on “We will one day think it is as horrible to…