“Today it is generally accepted that although the earliest humans…

“Today it is generally accepted that although the earliest humans probably ate some meat, it was unlikely to have played a major role in their diet. Plants would have been a much more important source of food.” – Dr. Jane Goodall, Harvest for Hope

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John Harvey Kellogg, quoted by Gail Davis in Vegetarian Food for Thought - View Quote Details on John Harvey Kellogg, quoted by Gail Davis in Vegetarian Food…
“The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites or women for men.” - Alice Walker. - View Quote Details on “The animals of the world exist for their own reasons…
“Political economists tell us that the produce of an acre of land in wheat, corn, potatoes, and other vegetables, and in fruits, will sustain animal life sixteen times as long as when the produce of the same acre is converted into flesh, by feeding and fattening animals upon it.” – William A. Alcott, Vegetable Diet, New York: Fowlers & Wells, 1848, pp. 263-265 - View Quote Details on “Political economists tell us that the produce of an acre…
“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…
“The link between animal products and heart disease is now very well documented. It’s no surprise that half of all Americans develop heart disease, because the typical U.S. diet puts almost everyone at risk.” – Dean Ornish, MD, head of the Preventative Medicine Research Institute in California - View Quote Details on “The link between animal products and heart disease is now…
“I think there’s something odd about eating another living anything.” – Shania Twain - View Quote Details on “I think there’s something odd about eating another living anything.”…
“The indifference of children towards meat is one proof that the taste for meat is unnatural; their preference is for vegetable foods, such as milk, pastry, fruit, etc. Beware of changing this natural taste and making children flesh-eaters, if not for their health’s sake, for the sake of their character. For however one tries to explain the practice, it is certain that great meat-eaters are usually more cruel and ferocious than other men. This has been recognized at all times and in all places. The English are noted for their cruelty while the Gaures are the gentlest of men. All savages are cruel, and it is not their customs that tend in this direction; their cruelty is the result of their food. They go to war as to the chase, and treat men as they would treat bears. Indeed in England butchers are not allowed to give evidence in a court of law,no more can surgeons. Great criminals prepare themselves for murder by drinking blood. Homer makes his flesh-eating Cyclops a terrible man, while his Lotus-eaters are so delightful that those who went to trade with them forgot even their own country to dwell among them.” – Jean-Jacques Rousseau, from Emile or On Education - View Quote Details on “The indifference of children towards meat is one proof that…
“Every time we sit down to eat, we make a choice. Please choose vegetarianism. Do it for … animals. Do it for the environment, and do it for your health.” - Alec Baldwin, in the PETA website, he worked with PETA. - View Quote Details on “Every time we sit down to eat, we make a…
“The peoples living upon vegetable foods, are, of all men, the handsomest, the most vigorous, the least exposed to diseases and to passions, and they whose lives last longest” – Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Etudes - View Quote Details on “The peoples living upon vegetable foods, are, of all men,…
“After looking carefully into the matter, and after some years’ experience in its non-use, I can state without hesitancy that, contrary to the prevailing opinion, the flesh of animals is not necessary as an article of food. […] We shall find numerous articles of food, as we study the matter, that, so far as body nourishing, building, and sustaining qualities are concerned, contain twice, and in some cases over twice, as much as any flesh food that can be mentioned.” - Ralph Waldo Trine (1866-1958), Every Living Creature, p. 25-26 - View Quote Details on “After looking carefully into the matter, and after some years’…