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“There is no logical basis to support the theory that plants feel pain. The dubious possibility that they might, however, is no justification for killing obviously sentient beings. Any rational person understands the striking difference between slitting the throat of a sentient animal and plucking a fruit or a vegetable.” - Joanne Stepaniak, M.S. Ed., Being Vegan

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“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…
“If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.” - Paul McCartney - View Quote Details on “If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.”…
” Simonson, in his rubber jacket and rubber overshoes fastened with a string over his worsted stockings (he was a vegetarian and would not wear the skin of slaughtered animals), was also in the courtyard waiting for the gang to start.” - Leo Tolstoy, Resurrection, Book III, chap I - View Quote Details on ” Simonson, in his rubber jacket and rubber overshoes fastened…
“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 - View Quote Details on “Strange spectacle! To see a mother giving her daughter, whom…
“Now I can look at you in peace; I don`t eat you anymore.” - Franz Kafka (quoted by Max Brod in Franz Kafka: A Biography) - View Quote Details on “Now I can look at you in peace; I don`t…
“I never really liked meat. I was a child that had to be forced to eat my meat. Whatever you ate before [going vegetarian] that you loved—like turkey slices—they’ve got a substitute now that’s not hard to find.” – Masta Killa, from Wu-Tang Clan - View Quote Details on “I never really liked meat. I was a child that…
” 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…
“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…
“Were one to stop and think of what meat is, and what it was, it is doubtful if one could eat it. It is merely dead and decaying flesh - flesh from the body of an animal. […] Only by the fact that hey are covered up, and their true nature concealed by cooking, and basting, and pickling, and peppering and salting can we eat them at all. If we were natural carnivorous animals, we should delight in bloodshed and gore of all kind! […] We should eat our flesh warm and quivering - just as it comes from the cow!” - Hereward Carrington, The Natural Food for Man, p. 160-161 - View Quote Details on “Were one to stop and think of what meat is,…
“The natural food of man, to judge from his structure, appears to consit principally of the fruits, roots, and other succulent parts of vegetables.” – Georges Cuvier, Le Régne Animal - View Quote Details on “The natural food of man, to judge from his structure,…