“[W]e were selling books, and right next to us was…

“[W]e were selling books, and right next to us was an old man. I mean, he had to be about 80 years old, and he was a nutritionist, but he was a holistic nutritionist, and he was talking to us about how you shouldn’t really eat animals and things of that nature… and he pulled up his shirt and the man had the abs of a 15-year-old. He says to us, “Touch ’em. Punch me,”—whatever—and he’s like, “How old do you think I am?” And we thought he was about 50 years old, and he’s like, “I’m 86 years old.”… We looked at each other, me and my friends, and we were, like, when we’re 86, we want to be like that…. So that’s what started it.” – Jeru the Damaja, in a peta2 interview

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” Simonson, in his rubber jacket and rubber overshoes fastened with a string over his worsted stockings (he was a vegetarian and would not wear the skin of slaughtered animals), was also in the courtyard waiting for the gang to start.” - Leo Tolstoy, Resurrection, Book III, chap I - View Quote Details on ” Simonson, in his rubber jacket and rubber overshoes fastened…
“Answer me, machinist, has nature arranged all the means of feeling in this animal, so that it may not feel? has it nerves in order to be impassible? Do not suppose this impertinent contradiction in nature.” - Voltaire - View Quote Details on “Answer me, machinist, has nature arranged all the means of…
“You can’t tear flesh by hand, you can’t tear hide by hand. Our anterior teeth are not suited for tearing flesh or hide. We don’t have large canine teeth, and we wouldn’t have been able to deal with food sources that require those large canines” – Dr. Richard Leakey - View Quote Details on “You can’t tear flesh by hand, you can’t tear hide…
“(Of the mouth of man which is a tomb) there shall come forth loud noises out of the tombs of those who have died by an evil and violent death.” - Leonardo da Vinci, (Prophecies). - View Quote Details on “(Of the mouth of man which is a tomb) there…
“It may take a while, but there will probably come a time when we look back and say, ‘Good Lord, do you believe that in the 20th century and early part of the 21st, people were still eating animals?’.” – Mary Tyler Moore - View Quote Details on “It may take a while, but there will probably come…
“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…
“Vegetarianism is a way of life that we should all move toward foe economic survival, physical well-being and spiritual integrity.” - Father Thomas Berry - View Quote Details on “Vegetarianism is a way of life that we should all…
“For the last month I have been a strict vegetarian. The moral effects of this regime are immense, owing to the voluntary subjugation of the flesh and the resulting absence of desires. You will appreciate how full I am of this idea when I tell you that I expect it to work the regeneration of mankind. I advise you to change over to a natural way of life, with proper nourishment (wholemeal bread), and you will soon feel the benefit.” – Gustav Mahler, on a 1880 letter - View Quote Details on “For the last month I have been a strict vegetarian…
“If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.” - Paul McCartney - View Quote Details on “If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.”…
“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…