“The link between animal products and heart disease is now…

“The link between animal products and heart disease is now very well documented. It’s no surprise that half of all Americans develop heart disease, because the typical U.S. diet puts almost everyone at risk.” – Dean Ornish, MD, head of the Preventative Medicine Research Institute in California

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“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…
” When the soil is given up to the feeding of cattle, upon which man is to feed, the given area of land would supply far less nutriment, so to speak, than would the same soil, if grains were raised upon it… ” - Hereward Carrington, The Natural Food for Man, p. 162 - View Quote Details on ” When the soil is given up to the feeding…
“The Tiger, the Lion, in short, all flesh-eating animals seized their prey, running, swimming, or flying, and tore it in pieces with their teeth or talons, devouring it there and then upon the spot. Man cannot catch other animals this way, or tear them in pieces, and devour them as they are… Besides he has higher and not merely animal impulses.” - Gustav von Struve, Mandaras’ Wanderungen - View Quote Details on “The Tiger, the Lion, in short, all flesh-eating animals seized…
“Linda McCartney sausages were my favorite. They’re much better than eating real sausages and you don’t have to contemplate half way through exactly what s inside them…. You can have them, a bit of fried bread, tinned tomatoes. Delicious. ” – Simon Cowell - View Quote Details on “Linda McCartney sausages were my favorite. They’re much better than…
“Cruelty stares at me from the butcher’s face. I tread amidst carcasses. I am in the presence of the slain. The death-set eyes of beasts peer at me and accuse me of belonging to the race of murderers. ” – Amos Bronson Alcott, The Journals of Bronson Alcott - View Quote Details on “Cruelty stares at me from the butcher’s face. I tread…
” All wholesome food is caught without a net or a trap. ” – William Blake, on The Marriage of Heaven and Hell - View Quote Details on ” All wholesome food is caught without a net or…
” In all the round world of Utopia there is no meat. There used to be. But now we cannot stand the thought of slaughter-houses. And, in a population that is all educated, and at about the same level of physical refinement, it is practically impossible to find anyone who will hew a dead ox or pig. We never settled the hygienic question of meat-eating at all. This other aspect decided us. I can still remember, as a boy, the rejoicings over the closing of the last slaughter-house.” - H.G. Wells, On A Modern Utopia Chapter the Ninth, The Samurai, Section 5 - View Quote Details on ” In all the round world of Utopia there is…
“Only by discarding a diet based on rotting corpses could men become sane..” – Jack Lindsay, Fanfrolico and After, 1962 - View Quote Details on “Only by discarding a diet based on rotting corpses could…
“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…
” The destruction of animals for food, in its details and tendencies, involves so much cruelty as to cause every reflecting individual – not destitude of the ordinary sensibilities of nature – to shudder.” – William A. Alcott, Vegtable Diet, 1848 - View Quote Details on ” The destruction of animals for food, in its details…