“When people ask me why I don’t eat meat or…

“When people ask me why I don’t eat meat or any other animal products, I say, ‘Because they are unhealthy and they are the product of a violent and inhumane industry.” - Casey Affleck, in a PETA video

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” It is not a digression to mention the horrors of war in connection with the massacre of cattle and carnivorous banquets. The diet of individuals corresponds closely to their manners. Blood demands blood. On this point anyone who searches among his recollections of the people whom he has known will find there can be no possible doubt as to the contrast which exists between vegetarians and coarse eaters of flesh, greedy drinkers of blood, in amenity of manner, gentleness of disposition and regularity of life.” - Elisée Reclus, On Vegetarianism - View Quote Details on ” It is not a digression to mention the horrors…
“The table was well spread with all manner of fruit, beans, greenstuff and good pies…but of flesh and fish there was never a sign.” – Shmuel Yosef Agnon, The Bridal Canopy - View Quote Details on “The table was well spread with all manner of fruit,…
“It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living by its purely physical effect on the human temperament would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind.” - Albert Einstein, letter to Vegetarian Watch-Tower, December 27, 1930 - View Quote Details on “It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living…
“I don’t eat meat, fish, or eggs. I was never a big meat-eater, but I’ve got more energy now. I eat a lot of tofu, and I drink soy shakes with fruit every morning. I always have soybeans, black beans, or chickpeas for lunch or dinner” – Shania Twain - View Quote Details on “I don’t eat meat, fish, or eggs. I was never…
“Even if man were created a carnivorous animal, is there no way for him to outgrow it as he becomes more intelligent?” - Ha’nish Otoman Zar-Adusht Ha’nish, Mazdaznan Dietetics and Cookery Book, 1913, p. 197 - View Quote Details on “Even if man were created a carnivorous animal, is there…
“It is certainly preferable to raise vegetables, and I think, therefore, that vegetarianism is a commendable departure from the established barbarous habit. That we can subsist on plant food and perform our work even to advantage is not a theory, but a well-demonstrated fact. Many races living almost exclusively on vegetables are of superior physique and strength. There is no doubt that some plant food, such as oatmeal, is more economical than meat, and superior to it in regard to both mechanical and mental performance. Such food, moreover, taxes our digestive organs decidedly less, and, in making us more contented and sociable, produces an amount of good difficult to estimate. In view of these facts every effort should be made to stop the wanton and cruel slaughter of animals, which must be destructive to our morals. ” - Nikola Tesla (Century Illustrated Magazine, June 1900) - View Quote Details on “It is certainly preferable to raise vegetables, and I think,…
“Would the delicate ladies who devour sanguinary beef-steaks like to see their sons working as slaughtermen? If not, then they have no right to put this task upon some other woman’s son. – C.W. Leadbeater, Vegetarianism and Occultism, 1913, p. 28 - View Quote Details on “Would the delicate ladies who devour sanguinary beef-steaks like to…
“Yes, I am a vegetarian. I find the thought of stuffing fragments of corpses down my throat quite repulsive, and I am amazed that so many people do it every day. ” - J. M. Coetzee - View Quote Details on “Yes, I am a vegetarian. I find the thought of…
“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…
George Bernard Shaw, Letter to Mrs.Patrick Campbell - View Quote Details on George Bernard Shaw, Letter to Mrs.Patrick Campbell