“While millions of people across the globe are faced with…

“While millions of people across the globe are faced with droughts and water shortages, much of the world’s water supply is quietly being diverted to animal agriculture. As the Western diet spreads to the rest of the world, even desert nations in Africa and the Middle East are pouring what little water they have into meat production.” - www.goveg.com

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” We cannot pretend that we do not know this. We are not ostriches, and cannot believe that if we refuse to look at what we do not wish to see, it will not exist. This is especially the case when what we do not wish to see is what we wish to eat. If it were really indispensable, or, if not indispensable, at least in some way useful! But it is quite unnecessary, and only serves to develop animal feelings, to excite desire, and to promote fornication and drunkenness. And this is continually being confirmed by the fact that young, kind, undepraved people—especially women and girls—without knowing how it logically follows, feel that virtue is incompatible with beefsteaks, and, as soon as they wish to be good, give up eating flesh.” - Leo Tolstoy, Essays and Letters, The First Step - View Quote Details on ” We cannot pretend that we do not know this…
“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…
“Fruits, nuts, cereal, and vegetation were the basis of the human diet over the millennia. Our modern diet is really an anathema to our whole historical evolution.” – Oliver Alabaster, MD - View Quote Details on “Fruits, nuts, cereal, and vegetation were the basis of the…
“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,…
“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 - View Quote Details on “When people ask me why I don’t eat meat or…
“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…
“None, so far as I know, will affirm or at least with any show of reason maintain, that anatomy, so far as that goes, is in favour of flesh eating ” – Dr. William A. Alcott, The Vegetable Diet: As Sanctioned by Medical Men and by Experience in All Ages - View Quote Details on “None, so far as I know, will affirm or at…
“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…
“Until the age of twelve, then, I only lived on bread, milk-food, vegetables, and fruit. My health was not less robust on this account, nor my growth less rapid, and it was to this diet, perhaps, that I was indebted for that purity of feature, that exquisite sensibility of feeling, and that quiet gentleness of humor and character which I had preserved up to that period.” - Alphonse de Lamartine, On Les confidences - View Quote Details on “Until the age of twelve, then, I only lived on…
” It seems obvious to me that a Christ-child who is depicted in the scriptures as being born in the stable, surrounded by animals, is not meant to be the figurehead of a Great Slaughter and a feast of gluttony and self indulgence. ” – Lady Dowding - View Quote Details on ” It seems obvious to me that a Christ-child who…