“The too obvious fact that a large portion of animals…

“The too obvious fact that a large portion of animals are carnivorous neither proves nor justifies the carnivorousness of the human species.” - Howard Williams (1837-1931), The Ethics of Diet

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“I completely stopped eating dead creatures in 1989. ” - Bryan Adams, www.animal-lib.org - View Quote Details on “I completely stopped eating dead creatures in 1989. ” -…
“[I]t’s untreated and unsanitary, bubbling with chemicals and diseased. … It goes onto the soil and into the water that many people will, ultimately, bathe in and wash their clothes with and drink. It is poisoning rivers and killing fish and making people sick. … Catastrophic cases of pollution, sickness, and death are occurring in areas where livestock operations are concentrated. … Every place where the animal factories have located, neighbors have complained of falling sick.” - U.S. Staggers Under Weight of Waste From Farm Animals, 1998 - View Quote Details on “[I]t’s untreated and unsanitary, bubbling with chemicals and diseased. ……
” My mother was convinced, and on this head I have retained her firm belief, that to kill animals for the purpose of feeding on their flesh is one of the most deplorable and shameful infirmities of the human state; that it is one of those curses cast upon man either by his fall, or by the obduracy of his own perversity.” - Alphonse de Lamartine, On Les confidences - View Quote Details on ” My mother was convinced, and on this head I…
“Yet many Americans who have reluctantly given up their gas-guzzling cars would never think of questioning the resource costs of their grain-fed-meat diet. So let me try to give you some sense of the enormity of the resources flowing into livestock production in the United States. The consequences of a grain-fed-meat diet may be as severe as those of a nation of Cadillac drivers.” – Frances Moore Lappé, Diet for a Small Planet - View Quote Details on “Yet many Americans who have reluctantly given up their gas-guzzling…
“It is, i think, not going to far to say that every fact connected with the human organization goes to prove that man was originally formed a frugivorous animal. This opinion is principally derived from the formation of his teeth and of his digestive organs, as well as from the character of his skin, and the general structure of his limbs.” – Thomas Bell, Anatomy, physiology, and Diseases of the teeth - View Quote Details on “It is, i think, not going to far to say…
“There is a true correlation between our food choices and violence in the world. The only person who would disagree with that is a meat-eater.” - Peter Burwash - View Quote Details on “There is a true correlation between our food choices and…
“Once people spend time with farm animals in a loving way… a pig or cow or a little chicken or a turkey, they might find they relate with them the same way they relate with dogs and cats. People don’t really think of them that way because they’re on the plate. Why should they be food when other animals are pets? I would never eat my doggies.” - Alicia Silverstone - View Quote Details on “Once people spend time with farm animals in a loving…
“We found that many animal-based nutrients … are strongly associated with risk of developing these types of cancers.” – Dr. Susan Mayne - View Quote Details on “We found that many animal-based nutrients … are strongly associated…
“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…
” Man came before the axe and fire so he couldn’t be carnivorous.The length of mans digestive tube is 5-8 meters and the distance between the mouth and the coccyx is 50 to 80 centimetres, which gives us a result of 10 as in other frugivorous animals and not 3 as in the carnivorous or 20 as in the herbivorous animals.The only animal with probable omnivorous morphology that exists, is the bear, which has some pointed teeth and others that are flat.” - Thomas Henry Huxley - View Quote Details on ” Man came before the axe and fire so he…