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• “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…
• “I’m sure glad I had my bacon for breakfast.” - George W. Bush - View Quote Details on “I’m sure glad I had my bacon for breakfast.” -…
• Isaac Bashevis Singer, in Judaism and Vegetarianism - View Quote Details on Isaac Bashevis Singer, in Judaism and Vegetarianism
• “Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.” - Albert Einstein - View Quote Details on “Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival…
• “I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilized.” - Henry David Thoreau (On Walden ) - View Quote Details on “I have no doubt that it is a part of…
• “Jesus’ message is about love and compassion, but there is nothing loving or compassionate at factory farms and slaughterhouses, where billions of animals endure miserable lives and die violent deaths. Jesus mandates kindness and mercy for all God’s creatures. He’d be appalled by the suffering that we inflict on animals today to indulge our acquired taste for their flesh.” - Bruce Friedrich, Is Eating Meat A Catholic Sin? - View Quote Details on “Jesus’ message is about love and compassion, but there is…
• “For every 16 pounds of grain and soy fed to beef cattle in the United States we only get 1 pound back in meat on our plates. The other 15 pounds are inaccessible to us, either used by the animal to produce energy or to make some part of its own body that we do not eat (like hair or bones) or excreted.” – Frances Moore Lappé, Diet for a Small Planet - View Quote Details on “For every 16 pounds of grain and soy fed to…
• Hereward Carrington, The Natural Food for Man, p. 159-160 - View Quote Details on Hereward Carrington, The Natural Food for Man, p. 159-160
• “I was watching an HBO special on eating habits and different cultures, and they showed in China how people eat cats, and I’m really fond of cats, and I happened to be sitting on the couch with my cat, and once I saw that, it just put everything in perspective. If I wouldn’t eat my cat what’s the difference between eating a cat or a cow? If certain animals are considered lesser than, so are certain people and that’s not really fair. And the root of that is to consider life on equal terms across the board.” - Ben Kenney, from a PETA video with The Roots - View Quote Details on “I was watching an HBO special on eating habits and…
• “According to a University of California study, it takes 5,214 gallons of water to produce 1 pound of beef. That’s more than a year of daily showers in exchange for 4 hamburgers. Even more fun, you can drive in your car for 3 hours and leave all the lights on in your house while doing it and you’re greenhouse gas emissions will not equal what comes from the production of just one kilogram of beef.” - liveearth.org, Chicken or Beef? Or Vegetarian? Or Vegan? - View Quote Details on “According to a University of California study, it takes 5,214…
• “There is no logical basis to support the theory that plants feel pain. The dubious possibility that they might, however, is no justification for killing obviously sentient beings. Any rational person understands the striking difference between slitting the throat of a sentient animal and plucking a fruit or a vegetable.” - Joanne Stepaniak, M.S. Ed., Being Vegan - View Quote Details on “There is no logical basis to support the theory that…
• “I drink soy milk, and that’s the right thing. ” - Howard Stern, Animal Times, Spring, 2008, p. 17 - View Quote Details on “I drink soy milk, and that’s the right thing. “…
• “The superiority of the diet I recommend is established beyond the possibility of debate.” – Dr. William A. Alcott, The Vegetable Diet: As Sanctioned by Medical Men and by Experience in All Ages - View Quote Details on “The superiority of the diet I recommend is established beyond…
• “Linda McCartney sausages were my favorite. They’re much better than eating real sausages and you don’t have to contemplate half way through exactly what s inside them…. You can have them, a bit of fried bread, tinned tomatoes. Delicious. ” – Simon Cowell - View Quote Details on “Linda McCartney sausages were my favorite. They’re much better than…
• “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…
• “How would our society women like to spend the morning in a slaughterhouse, before they could procure their meat for evening dinner?” - Hereward Carrington, Natural Food of Man, p. 161 - View Quote Details on “How would our society women like to spend the morning…
• “Animal life, sombre mystery. All nature protests against the barbarity of man, who misapprehends, who humiliates, who tortures his inferior brethren.” - Jules Michelet - View Quote Details on “Animal life, sombre mystery. All nature protests against the barbarity…
• “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…
• “I do feel that spiritual progress does demand, at some stage, that we should cease to kill our fellow creatures for the satisfaction of our bodily wants.” - Mahatma Gandhi. - View Quote Details on “I do feel that spiritual progress does demand, at some…
• ” Like my friend the Doctor, I have lived temperately, eating little animal food, and that not as an ailment, so much as a condiment for the vegetables, which constitute my principle diet” - Thomas Jefferson, letter written on March 21, 1819 to Dr. Vine Utley - View Quote Details on ” Like my friend the Doctor, I have lived temperately,…
• “[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 - View Quote Details on “[W]e were selling books, and right next to us was…
• “As long as Man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love.” - Pythagoras - View Quote Details on “As long as Man continues to be the ruthless destroyer…
• “Further, it should be clear that meat in itself as protein is not much superior to eggs or nuts and could not alter the evolution of the brain; if this were so this miracle food would have continued to enlarge humans’ brain size in succeeding years when much greater amounts of meat were consumed ” – Colin Spencer, The Heretic’s Feast - View Quote Details on “Further, it should be clear that meat in itself as…
• Oliver Goldsmith, On The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith - View Quote Details on Oliver Goldsmith, On The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith
• “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…
• “I’ve been a vegan since I was about 3 years old and involved in animal rights for years. I’ve seen a number of animal rights films throghout the years, nona has affected me as profoundly as Earthlings. ” – Joaquin Phoenix, interview from the official Earthlings website - View Quote Details on “I’ve been a vegan since I was about 3 years…
• “I was raised on flesh, more flesh, still flesh, always flesh. When I started to use reason and organized my code of principles, I included vegetarianism in it; but it was too late to execute it.”– Machado de Assis, A Semana, 5 de Março de 1893 - View Quote Details on “I was raised on flesh, more flesh, still flesh, always…
• “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…
• “It is frightful wrong that other species are tortured, worried, flayed, and devored by us, in spite of the fact that we are not obliged to this by necessity; while in sinning against the defenceless and helpless, just claimants as they are upon our reasonable conscience and upon our compassion, we succeed only in brutalising ourselves.” – Georg Friedrich Daumer, quoted by Howard Williams in The Ethics of Diet - View Quote Details on “It is frightful wrong that other species are tortured, worried,…
• “Insecticides, pesticides, products that are used in paint and preservation of wood, hormones, and animal drugs all turn up in meat.” - Carol Tucker Foreman, Former Assistant Secretary of Agriculture - View Quote Details on “Insecticides, pesticides, products that are used in paint and preservation…
• “All my life, I have been sickened by everything connected with meat-, fish-, and poultry eating. As a child, I saw apparently nice, kind people wring the necks of fowls, and I thought it foul; and I wondered if I could ever exert any influence to help bring such unworthiness to an end.” – Percy Grainger, American Vegetarian, Vol. V no. 4, Dec, 1946, p. 4 - View Quote Details on “All my life, I have been sickened by everything connected…
• “How can one, who eats the flesh of others to swell his flesh, show compassion?” - Tiruvalluvar, Tirukkural: 251 - View Quote Details on “How can one, who eats the flesh of others to…
• “Meat is for beasts to feed on.” - Ovid - View Quote Details on “Meat is for beasts to feed on.” - Ovid
• “Thousands-millions and billions-of animals are killed for food. That is very sad. We human beings can live without meat, especially in our modern world. We have a great variety of vegetables and other supplementary foods, so we have the capacity and the responsibility to save billions of lives. I have seen many individuals and groups promoting animal rights and following a vegetarian diet. This is excellent.” – Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, Religious Vegetarianism from Hesiod to the Dalai Lama - View Quote Details on “Thousands-millions and billions-of animals are killed for food. That is…
• “If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?” - John Cleese (vegetarian) - View Quote Details on “If God did not intend for us to eat animals,…
• “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…
• Neal Barnard, M. D, Wramc Us Too, Inc Newsletter, 2003 - View Quote Details on Neal Barnard, M. D, Wramc Us Too, Inc Newsletter, 2003
• ” [A]lthough we think we are one and we act as if we are one, human beings are not natural carnivores. When we kill animals to eat them, they end up killing us because their flesh, which contains cholesterol and saturated fat, was never intended for human beings, who are natural herbivores.” - Dr. William C. Roberts, M.D., editor of the authoritative American Journal of Cardiology - View Quote Details on ” [A]lthough we think we are one and we act…
• “Most eminent physiologists declare that fruit is the natural food for man, and… we have the example of Buddha, Pythagoras, Plato, Porphyry, Ray, Daniel, Wesley, Howard, Shelley, Sir Isaac Pitman, Edison, Sir W. B. Richardson, and a host of other eminent men as vegetarians.” – Mohandas Gandhi, Religious Vegetarianism from Hesiod to the Dalai Lama - View Quote Details on “Most eminent physiologists declare that fruit is the natural food…
• “What we often fail to recognize is how efficient a vegan diet is. Less land, less water, more food for our spiraling population.” – Ed Begley, Jr. - View Quote Details on “What we often fail to recognize is how efficient a…
• “Refrain at all times such foods as cannot be procured without violence and oppression. For know that all the inferior Creatures, when hurt, do cry and send forth their complaints to their Maker.” - Thomas Tryon, The Way to Health, Long Life, and Happiness, 1683 - View Quote Details on “Refrain at all times such foods as cannot be procured…
• “A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral.” - Henry David Thoreau, On Civil Disobedience - View Quote Details on “A man can live and be healthy without killing animals…
• Peter Singer, The Ethics of What We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter - View Quote Details on Peter Singer, The Ethics of What We Eat: Why Our…
• “As I cannot kill, I cannot authorize others to kill. Do you see? If you are buying from a butcher you are authorizing him to kill – to kill helpless, dumb creatures which neither you nor I could kill ourselves.” - Paul Troubetzkoy, quoted in ”Vegetarian Food for Thought - View Quote Details on “As I cannot kill, I cannot authorize others to kill…
• “In fact, my best year of track competition was the first year I ate a vegan diet. Moreover, by continuing to eat a vegan diet, my weight is under control, I like the way I look. (…)I regained my energy. I was drinking 24 to 32 ounces of juice a day. I ate no dairy products. And I had my best year as an athlete ever! (…) I know that many people think that eating a vegetarian diet - and especially a vegan diet – will require sacrifice and denial. Jannequin Bennett demonstrates in this book that eating vegan does not have to be tasteless and boring.” – Carl Lewis, Excerpt from Carl Lewis’ introduction to Very Vegetarian, by Jannequin Bennett - View Quote Details on “In fact, my best year of track competition was the…
• “Strange spectacle! To see a mother giving her daughter, whom but yesterday she was suckling at her breast, this gross aliment of bloody meats, and the dangerous excitant wine!” - Jules Michelet, La Femme, vi. Onzième Edition, Paris, 1879 - View Quote Details on “Strange spectacle! To see a mother giving her daughter, whom…
• “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…
• ”The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined.” – Neal Barnard, M. D - View Quote Details on ”The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than…
• “I was in a sushi bar and it dawned on me – how could I discriminate between a cow and a fish?” - Carré Otis, Animal Times, Summer, 2007, p. 4 - View Quote Details on “I was in a sushi bar and it dawned on…
• ” 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…
• “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 butcher with his bloody apron incites bloodshed, murder. Why not? From cutting the throat of a young calf to cutting the throat of our brothers and sisters is but a step. While we are ourselves the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal conditions on the earth? ” – Isadora Duncan, My Life - View Quote Details on “The butcher with his bloody apron incites bloodshed, murder. Why…
• “I do not eat meat, I do not smoke, and I do not drink, and therefore, I do not feel the cold. ” - Percy Grainger, J. Bird, Percy Grainger, 1998, p. 253 - View Quote Details on “I do not eat meat, I do not smoke, and…
• “True and constant vigor of the body is the effect of health, which is much better preserved with watery, herbaceous, frugal, and tender food, than with vinous, abundant, hard, and gross flesh. […] the vulgar opinion, then which, on health reasons condemns vegetable food and so much praises animal food, being so ill-founded, I have always thought it well to oppose myself to it, moved both by experience and by that refined knowledge of natural things which some study and conversation with great men have given me.” - Antonio Cocchi, The Pythagorean Diet - View Quote Details on “True and constant vigor of the body is the effect…
• “Behold the Venus flytrap, the complete answer to the philosophy of vegetarianism” - Tom Edwards - View Quote Details on “Behold the Venus flytrap, the complete answer to the philosophy…
• “Oh, come! That boot is on the other leg. Why should you call me to account for eating decently? If I battened on the scorched corpses of animals, you might well ask me why I did that.” - George Bernard Shaw, (The Vegetarian, 15 January 1898) - View Quote Details on “Oh, come! That boot is on the other leg. Why…
• “It is demonstrated that brutes are rational animals, reason in most of them being indeed imperfect, of which, nevertheless, they are not entirely deprived. Since, however, justice pertains to rational beings, as our opponents say, how is it possible not to admit, that we should also act justly towards brutes?” - Porphyry, On Abstinence from Animal Food - View Quote Details on “It is demonstrated that brutes are rational animals, reason in…
• Vegetarian: old Indian word for “lousy hunter.” - Bumper sticker - View Quote Details on Vegetarian: old Indian word for “lousy hunter.” - Bumper sticker
• “If you can justify killing to eat meat, you can justify the conditions of the ghetto. I cannot justify either one.” - Dick Gregory. - View Quote Details on “If you can justify killing to eat meat, you can…
• “In the perfect world originally designed by God, man was meant to be a vegetarian.” - Rabbi Jacob Cohen, The Royal Table - View Quote Details on “In the perfect world originally designed by God, man was…
• “I can never accept inconsistency or injustice. Even if it comes from God. If there would come a voice from God saying, “I’m against vegetarianism!” I would say, “Well, I am for it!” This is how strongly I feel in this regard.” - Isaac Bashevis Singer, from the Preface to Food for the Spirit: Vegetarianism and the World Religions - View Quote Details on “I can never accept inconsistency or injustice. Even if it…
• “Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self righteousness.” - Robert Hutchinson - View Quote Details on “Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill…
• “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 - View Quote Details on “We must recognize that it is ecological suicide for us…
• “You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson - View Quote Details on “You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is…
• “The natural food of man, to judge from his structure, appears to consit principally of the fruits, roots, and other succulent parts of vegetables.” – Georges Cuvier, Le Régne Animal - View Quote Details on “The natural food of man, to judge from his structure,…
• “We manage to swallow flesh, only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing we do.” - Rabinadranath Tagore, Glimpses of Bengal Letters, 1894 - View Quote Details on “We manage to swallow flesh, only because we do not…
• “Those who eat flesh are but eating grains and vegetables at second hand; for the animal receives from these things the nutrition that produces growth. The life that was in the grains and the vegetables passes into the eater. We receive it by eating the flesh of the animal. How much better to get it direct by eating the food that God provided for our use!” - Ellen White, Health and Happiness, 1905 - View Quote Details on “Those who eat flesh are but eating grains and vegetables…
• “People of the future will say, “meat-eaters!” in disgust and regard us in the same way that we regard cannibals and cannibalism.” - Dennis Weaver, quoted by Gail Davis in Vegetarian Food for Thought - View Quote Details on “People of the future will say, “meat-eaters!” in disgust and…
• “I stopped eating meat about six years ago, when I was working on the movie Selena. During the shoot, I had to hold a chicken for five hours—if you hold it and feel its little heart beating for hours, you just can’t think about eating it.” – Constance Marie - View Quote Details on “I stopped eating meat about six years ago, when I…
• “I don’t understand why asking people to eat a well-balanced vegetarian diet is considered drastic, while it’s medically conservative to cut people open or put them on powerful cholesterol-lowering drugs for the rest of their lives.” – Dean Ornish, MD, head of the Preventative Medicine Research Institute in California - View Quote Details on “I don’t understand why asking people to eat a well-balanced…
• “I’m 44 years old. My oldest son is 20 years old. Most people who don’t know us think I’m his girlfriend or sister rather than his mom. How’s that for motivation!” – Lisa Koehn, in www.veganbodybuilding.com - View Quote Details on “I’m 44 years old. My oldest son is 20 years…
• “So-called farms today treat animals like so many boxes in a warehouse, chopping off beaks and tails and genitals with no painkillers at all, inflicting third-degree burns repeatedly by branding cows, … and just a horrible catalog of abuses that, if done to dogs or cats, would be illegal on grounds of animal cruelty.” – James Cromwell, in the PETA website - View Quote Details on “So-called farms today treat animals like so many boxes in…
• ” 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…
• “Man alone consumes and engulfs more flesh than all other animals put together. He is, then, the greatest destroyer, and he is so more by abuse than by necessity. Instead of enjoying with moderation the resources offered him, in place of dispensing them with equity, in place of repairing in proportion as he destroys, of renewing in proportion as he annihilates, the rich man makes all his boast and glory in consuming, all his splendour in destroying, in one day, at his table, more matenal than would be necessary for the support of several families. He abuses equally other animals and his own species, the rest of whom live in famine, languish in misery, and work only to satisfy the immoderate appetite and the still more insatiable vanity of this human being who, destroying others by want, destroys himself by excess. - George Buffon,L’Histoire Naturelle - View Quote Details on “Man alone consumes and engulfs more flesh than all other…
• “I do not mean here absolute want of food, but want of healthful nutriment. How to provide good and plentiful food is, therefore, a most important question of the day. On the general principles the raising of cattle as a means of providing food is objectionable, because, in the sense interpreted above, it must undoubtedly tend to the addition of mass of a “smaller velocity.” – Nikola Tesla, The Problem of Increasing Human Energy, Century Illustrated Magazine, June 1900 - View Quote Details on “I do not mean here absolute want of food, but…
• “To see the convulsions, agonies and tortures of a poor fellow-creature, whom they cannot restore nor recompense, dying to gratify luxury and tickle callous and rank organs, must require a rocky heart, and a great degree of cruelty and ferocity. I cannot find any great difference between feeding on human flesh and feeding on [other] animal flesh, except custom and practice.” - George Cheyne, Essay on Regimen - View Quote Details on “To see the convulsions, agonies and tortures of a poor…
• Rod Serling, The Twilight Zone (”To Serve Man “) - View Quote Details on Rod Serling, The Twilight Zone (”To Serve Man “)
• “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.”…
• “Nothing can be more shocking and horrid than one of our kitchens sprinkled with blood, and abounding with the cries of expiring victims or with the limbs of dead animals scattered or hung up here and there.” -Alexandre Pope, The Guardian, May 21, 1713 - View Quote Details on “Nothing can be more shocking and horrid than one of…
• “Certainly, if the entire world decided to become vegan tomorrow, a whole host of the world’s problems would disappear overnight. Climate change would decrease by 25 percent, deforestation would cease, rainforests would be preserved, our water- and air-quality would increase, life-expectancy rates would increase, and our rates of cancer would plummet, so certainly, with that one action of becoming vegan you are quite effectively making the world a better place.” - Moby, VegNews interview - View Quote Details on “Certainly, if the entire world decided to become vegan tomorrow,…
• “Man lives very well upon flesh, you say, but, if he thinks this food to be natural to him, why does he not use it as it is, as furnished to him by Nature? But, in fact, be shrinks in horror from seizing and rending living or even raw flesh with his teeth, and lights a fire to change its natural and proper condition… What is clearer than that man is not furnished for hunting, much less for eating, other animals? In one word, we seem to be admirably admonished by Cicero that man was destined for other things than for seizing and cutting the throats of other animals. If you answer, “that may be said to be an industry ordered by Nature, by which such weapons are invented,” then, behold, it is by the very same artificial instrument that men make weapons for mutual slaughter. Do they this at the instigation of Nature? Can a use so noxious be called natural? Faculty is given by Nature, but it is our own fault that we make a perverse use of it.” – Pierre Gassendi, Letter to Van Helmont - View Quote Details on “Man lives very well upon flesh, you say, but, if…
• “The too obvious fact that a large portion of animals are carnivorous neither proves nor justifies the carnivorousness of the human species.” - Howard Williams (1837-1931), The Ethics of Diet - View Quote Details on “The too obvious fact that a large portion of animals…
• Jack LaLanne, Interview by Dennis Hughes, Share Guide - View Quote Details on Jack LaLanne, Interview by Dennis Hughes, Share Guide
• “There can be no purity whilst the flesh of creatures is partaken of and inhumanity toward animals is practiced.” - Ruth Harrison, Animal Machines - View Quote Details on “There can be no purity whilst the flesh of creatures…
• “It is not my purpose here to discuss the question of vegetarianism, or to meet the objections that may be urged against it; though it must be admitted that of these objections not one can withstand a loyal and scrupulous inquiry. I, for my part, can affirm that those whom I have known to submit themselves to this regimen have found its result to be improved or restored health, marked addition of strength, and the acquisition by the mind of a clearness, brightness, well-being, such as might follow the release from some secular, loathsome, detestable dungeon.” - Maurice Maeterlinck, on The Buried Temple (le Temple Enseveli), III - The kingdoom of Matter, 5 - View Quote Details on “It is not my purpose here to discuss the question…
• “Based on the fossil record one big spurt in hominid cranial capacity seems to have occurred with the appearance of Homo erectus approximately 1.75 million years ago, long before red meat could have been a regular part of hominid diets.” – Donna Hart and Robert W. Sussman, Man the Hunted, expanded edition, p. 256 - View Quote Details on “Based on the fossil record one big spurt in hominid…
• “I, for my part, wonder of what sort of feeling, mind or reason that man was possessed who was first to pollute his mouth with gore, and allow his lips to touch the flesh of a murdered being; who spread his table with the mangled forms of dead bodies, and claimed as daily food and dainty dishes what but now were beings endowed with movement, with perception and with voice. For the sake of some little mouthful of flesh we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that portion of life and time it had been born into the world to enjoy.” - Plutarch, Moralia. - View Quote Details on “I, for my part, wonder of what sort of feeling,…
• “Chickens raised for food today are … covered in excrement, they’re diseased, and they’re drugged up with all sorts of toxins that you are ingesting if you eat chickens. One recent study found that chicken flesh in this country has four times as much arsenic—yes, arsenic, the poison (which is used in the drugs the chickens are given) as any other meat … I have been a vegan for many years.” – Russell Simmons - View Quote Details on “Chickens raised for food today are … covered in excrement,…
• “Only by discarding a diet based on rotting corpses could men become sane..” – Jack Lindsay, Fanfrolico and After, 1962 - View Quote Details on “Only by discarding a diet based on rotting corpses could…
• “To become vegetarian is to step into the stream which leads to nirvana.” - Buddha. - View Quote Details on “To become vegetarian is to step into the stream which…
• You never hear anybody talk about mad tofu disease. - View Quote Details on You never hear anybody talk about mad tofu disease.
• “If you have men who will exclude any of God’s creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.” - St. Francis of Assisi - View Quote Details on “If you have men who will exclude any of God’s…
• “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…
• “This is the quintessence of wisdom: not to injure any living being.” – Mahavira - View Quote Details on “This is the quintessence of wisdom: not to injure any…
• “It is a specious but false reason to allege that, since man has acquired this taste, he ought to be permitted to indulge it – in the first place because Nature has not given him cooked flesh, and because several ages must have rolled away before fire was used. […] Nature, then, could have given man only raw or living flesh, and we know that it is repugnant to him over the whole extent of the earth.” – Jean Antoine Gleizes, Thalysie, 1840 - View Quote Details on “It is a specious but false reason to allege that,…
• “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 - View Quote Details on “Today it is generally accepted that although the earliest humans…
• ” 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 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…
• “I look my age; and I am my age. It is the other people who look older than they are. What can you expect from people who eat corpses and drink spirits?” – George Bernard Shaw, in a conversation with him Archibald Henderson in 1924 - View Quote Details on “I look my age; and I am my age. It…
• “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…
• Ha’nish Otoman Zar-Adusht Ha’nish, Mazdaznan Dietetics and Cookery Book, 1913, p. 199 - View Quote Details on Ha’nish Otoman Zar-Adusht Ha’nish, Mazdaznan Dietetics and Cookery Book, 1913,…
• “I refuse to eat animals because I cannot nourish myself by the sufferings and by the death of other creatures. I refuse to do so, because I suffered so painfully myself that I can feel the pains of others by recalling my own sufferings.I feel happy, nobody persecutes me; why should I persecute other beings or cause them to be persecuted? I feel happy, I am no prisoner, I am free; why should I cause other creatures to be made prisoners and thrown into jail? I feel happy, nobody harms me; why should I harm other creatures or have them harmed? I feel happy, nobody wounds me; nobody kills me; why should I wound or kill other creatures or cause them to be wounded or killed for my pleasure and convenience?(…) I think that men will be killed and tortured as long as animals are killed and tortured. So long there will be wars too. Because killing must be trained and perfected on smaller objects, morally and technically.” - Edgar Kupfer-Koberwitz, Animals, My Brethren (written in the Concentration Camp Dachau, in the midst of all kinds of cruelties) - View Quote Details on “I refuse to eat animals because I cannot nourish myself…
• “No chemical carcinogen is nearly so important in causing human cancer as animal protein.” – Dr. T. Colin Campbell - View Quote Details on “No chemical carcinogen is nearly so important in causing human…
• “Some people seem to think that if the animals were not eaten they would multiply so rapidly as to overrun the earth. Is it not true that the more beef there is consumed the more there is raised? These people do not understand that there are men in the business who have made an effort to increase their stock by forced means.” - Ha’nish Otoman Zar-Adusht Ha’nish, Mazdaznan Dietetics and Cookery Book, 1913, p. 197 - View Quote Details on “Some people seem to think that if the animals were…
• “Humankind does not show the mixed structural features one expects and finds in anatomical omnivores such as bears and raccoons. Thus, from comparing the gastrointestinal tract of humans to that of carnivores, herbivores and omnivores we must conclude that humankind’s GI tract is designed for a purely plant-food diet.” - Milton R. Mills, M.D., The Comparative Anatomy of Eating - View Quote Details on “Humankind does not show the mixed structural features one expects…
• “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,…
• ” In all the round world of Utopia there is no meat. There used to be. But now we cannot stand the thought of slaughter-houses. And, in a population that is all educated, and at about the same level of physical refinement, it is practically impossible to find anyone who will hew a dead ox or pig. We never settled the hygienic question of meat-eating at all. This other aspect decided us. I can still remember, as a boy, the rejoicings over the closing of the last slaughter-house.” - H.G. Wells, On A Modern Utopia Chapter the Ninth, The Samurai, Section 5 - View Quote Details on ” In all the round world of Utopia there is…
• “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 - View Quote Details on “While millions of people across the globe are faced with…
• “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 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…
• “I beg all of the mankind who wants peace/ Try to have great compassion and stop killing!” - Mencius - View Quote Details on “I beg all of the mankind who wants peace/ Try…
• “The meat industry spends hundreds of millions of dollars lying to the public about their product. But no amount of false propaganda can sanitize meat. The facts are absolutely clear: Eating meat is bad for human health, catastrophic for the environment, and a living nightmare for animals” – Chrissie Hynde from The Pretenders, in the PETA website - View Quote Details on “The meat industry spends hundreds of millions of dollars lying…
• “Red meat is not bad for you. Now, blue-green meat–that’s bad for you!” - Tom Smothers - View Quote Details on “Red meat is not bad for you. Now, blue-green meat–that’s…

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