“To become vegetarian is to step into the stream which…

“To become vegetarian is to step into the stream which leads to nirvana.” - Buddha.

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“As for me, I could never so much as endure, without remorse and griefe, to see a poore, sillie, and innocent beast pursued and killed, which is harmelesse and voide of defence, and of whom we receive no offence at all. - Montaigne, Of Cruelty - View Quote Details on “As for me, I could never so much as endure,…
“I have never seasoned a truth with the sauce of a lie in order to digest it more easily.” - Marguerite Yourcenar - View Quote Details on “I have never seasoned a truth with the sauce of…
“As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: In their behavior toward creatures, all men were Nazis. The smugness with which man could do with other species as he pleased exemplified the most extreme racist theories, the principle that might is right.” - Isaac Bashevis Singer (On Enemies, A Love Story) - View Quote Details on “As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals…
“Red meat is not bad for you. Now, blue-green meat–that’s bad for you!” - Tom Smothers - View Quote Details on “Red meat is not bad for you. Now, blue-green meat–that’s…
“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. ” -…
“There is in man a disposition to compassion as generally diffused as his other instincts. Newton had cultivated this sentiment of humanity, and he extended it to the lower animals. With Locke he was strongly convinced that God has given to them a proportion of ideas, and the same feelings, which he has to us… In truth, without humanity, a virtue which comprehends all virtues, the name of philosopher is little deserved.” - Voltaire, Elémens de la Philosophie de Newton - View Quote Details on “There is in man a disposition to compassion as generally…
“How many times, for instance, have we not heard people speak with all the assurance of conviction about canine teeth and “simple stomach” of man as certain evidence of his natural adaptation for a flesh diet! At least we have demonstrated one fact – that if such arguments are valid, they apply with even greater force to the anthropoid apes, whose “canine teeth” are much longer and more powerful then those of man. [...] and yet, with the solitary exception of man, there is not one of these last that does not, in a natural condition, absolutely refuse to feed on flesh! M. pouchet observes that all the details of the digestive apparatus in man, as well as his dentition, constitute so many proofs of his frugivorous origin; an opinion shared by Owen, who remarks that the anthropoids and all quadrumana drive all their alimentation from fruits, grains, and other succulent and nutritive vegetable substances; and that the strict analogy which exists between the structure of the animals and that of man clearly demonstrates his frugivorous nature. This is, also, the view taken by Gassendi, Cuvier, Linné, Professor Lawrence, Charles Bell, Flourens, and a great number of other eminent writers.” – Anna Kingsford, M.D., The Perfect way of Diet - View Quote Details on “How many times, for instance, have we not heard people…
“In the next ten years, one of the things you’re bound to hear is that animal protein … is one of the most toxic nutrients of all that can be considered.” – Dr. T. Colin Campbell - View Quote Details on “In the next ten years, one of the things you’re…
” 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…
“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…