“Thousands-millions and billions-of animals are killed for food. That is…

“Thousands-millions and billions-of animals are killed for food. That is very sad. We human beings can live without meat, especially in our modern world. We have a great variety of vegetables and other supplementary foods, so we have the capacity and the responsibility to save billions of lives. I have seen many individuals and groups promoting animal rights and following a vegetarian diet. This is excellent.” – Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, Religious Vegetarianism from Hesiod to the Dalai Lama

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“People sometimes forget that there are vegetables and vegetables. There are vegetables that have not so much nutriment in them; but there are others – all the farinaceous foods such as wheat and barley – which contain a greater amount of nutriment than beef or any other animal meat.” – Professor Francis William Newman (1805-1897), President of the Vegetarian Society, quoted in the International Vegetarian Union website - View Quote Details on “People sometimes forget that there are vegetables and vegetables. There…
“I was watching an HBO special on eating habits and different cultures, and they showed in China how people eat cats, and I’m really fond of cats, and I happened to be sitting on the couch with my cat, and once I saw that, it just put everything in perspective. If I wouldn’t eat my cat what’s the difference between eating a cat or a cow? If certain animals are considered lesser than, so are certain people and that’s not really fair. And the root of that is to consider life on equal terms across the board.” - Ben Kenney, from a PETA video with The Roots - View Quote Details on “I was watching an HBO special on eating habits and…
“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…
“We must recognize that it is ecological suicide for us to endeavour to maintain a meat based agriculture and a primary carnivorous diet.” - Michael W. Fox, Inhumane Society, 1990 - View Quote Details on “We must recognize that it is ecological suicide for us…
” I have often thought, if it was not for this tyranny which custom usurps over us, that men of any tolerable good-nature could never be reconcil’d to the killing of so many animals for their daily food. - Bernard Mandeville, On The Fable of the Bees - View Quote Details on ” I have often thought, if it was not for…
“There is no biological need for milk.” - Suzanne r. Havala, MS, RD - View Quote Details on “There is no biological need for milk.” - Suzanne r…
“A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral.” - Henry David Thoreau, On Civil Disobedience - View Quote Details on “A man can live and be healthy without killing animals…
“I believe my dear Master has been pleased to try my faith and obedience by teaching me that I ought no longer to partake of anything that had life.” - Joshua Evans - View Quote Details on “I believe my dear Master has been pleased to try…
“Insecticides, pesticides, products that are used in paint and preservation of wood, hormones, and animal drugs all turn up in meat.” - Carol Tucker Foreman, Former Assistant Secretary of Agriculture - View Quote Details on “Insecticides, pesticides, products that are used in paint and preservation…
Henry Stephens Salt, The Sending of the Animals - View Quote Details on Henry Stephens Salt, The Sending of the Animals