“Those who eat flesh are but eating grains and vegetables…

“Those who eat flesh are but eating grains and vegetables at second hand; for the animal receives from these things the nutrition that produces growth. The life that was in the grains and the vegetables passes into the eater. We receive it by eating the flesh of the animal. How much better to get it direct by eating the food that God provided for our use!” - Ellen White, Health and Happiness, 1905

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Other Vegetarianism Quotes

“If you could feel or see the suffering, you wouldn’t think twice. Give back life. Don’t eat meat.” – Kim Basinger - View Quote Details on “If you could feel or see the suffering, you wouldn’t…
“No humane being, past the thoughtless age of boyhood, will wantonly murder any creature which holds its life by the same tenure that he does.” - Henry David Thoreau - View Quote Details on “No humane being, past the thoughtless age of boyhood, will…
“I do feel that spiritual progress does demand, at some stage, that we should cease to kill our fellow creatures for the satisfaction of our bodily wants.” - Mahatma Gandhi. - View Quote Details on “I do feel that spiritual progress does demand, at some…
Jack LaLanne, Interview by Dennis Hughes, Share Guide - View Quote Details on Jack LaLanne, Interview by Dennis Hughes, Share Guide
“Based on the fossil record one big spurt in hominid cranial capacity seems to have occurred with the appearance of Homo erectus approximately 1.75 million years ago, long before red meat could have been a regular part of hominid diets.” – Donna Hart and Robert W. Sussman, Man the Hunted, expanded edition, p. 256 - View Quote Details on “Based on the fossil record one big spurt in hominid…
“The same quantity of ground has been proved to be capable of sustaining a larger and stronger population on a vegetable than on a meat diet.” -Thomas Ignatius Maria Forster, Philozoia, 1839, p. 43 - View Quote Details on “The same quantity of ground has been proved to be…
“The man who shed the blood of an Ox or a Sheep will be habituated more easily than another to witness the effusion of that of his fellow-creatures.” - Sir John Sinclair, Code of Health and Longevity - View Quote Details on “The man who shed the blood of an Ox or…
“The mixing of meat and milk is a grave offense, an act that is pervaded altogether with the oppression of life, an oppression of a living being-and of property.” – Abraham Isaac Kook, Religious Vegetarianism from Hesiod to the Dalai Lama - View Quote Details on “The mixing of meat and milk is a grave offense,…
“Don´t live to eat, eat to live” – Antoni Gaudi, (Gaudi was a vegetarian), Juan Bergós Massó, Gaudí, el hombre y la obra, Barcelona : Universidad Politécnica, 1974 - View Quote Details on “Don´t live to eat, eat to live” – Antoni Gaudi,…
“Jesus’ message is about love and compassion, but there is nothing loving or compassionate at factory farms and slaughterhouses, where billions of animals endure miserable lives and die violent deaths. Jesus mandates kindness and mercy for all God’s creatures. He’d be appalled by the suffering that we inflict on animals today to indulge our acquired taste for their flesh.” - Bruce Friedrich, Is Eating Meat A Catholic Sin? - View Quote Details on “Jesus’ message is about love and compassion, but there is…