“We must recognize that it is ecological suicide for us…

“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

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” 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…
“Chickens, pigs, and other animals … are interesting individuals with personalities and intelligence. … What people need to understand is that if they’re eating animals, they are promoting cruelty to animals.” – Pamela Anderson, in the PETA website - View Quote Details on “Chickens, pigs, and other animals … are interesting individuals with…
“I hope that al those who eat animals and yet consider themselves to be living religious lives will read [Diet for Transcendence], and that it will lead them to see that the exploitation of animals is incompatible with any religion which professes compassion.” - Peter Singer - View Quote Details on “I hope that al those who eat animals and yet…
“You don’t have to give antibiotics to broccoli.” - Michael Klamper, MD - View Quote Details on “You don’t have to give antibiotics to broccoli.” - Michael…
“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…
“It is interesting to note that scientific men all over the world are awakened to the fact that the flesh of animals as food is not a pure nutriment, but is mixed with poisonous substances, excrementitious in character, which are the natural results of animal life.”– Dr.John Harvey Kellogg, quoted by C.W. Leadbeater in Vegetarianism and Occultism, 1913, p. 14 - View Quote Details on “It is interesting to note that scientific men all over…
“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,…
“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…
“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…
“They say that vegetable food is not sufficiently nutritious. But chemistry proves the contrary. So does physiology. So does experience. […] And again: the largest and strongest animals in the world are those which eat no flesh-food of any kind-the elephant and the rhinoceros.” - Dr. Russel Trall, Scientific Basis of Vegetarianism, p. 20 - View Quote Details on “They say that vegetable food is not sufficiently nutritious. But…